Site JIG

What is this all about?

D Battery, 2nd Battalion, 562nd Artillery was one of five Nike-Hercules missile firing batteries that were deployed to provide a defensive ring of supersonic fire around the Fairbanks/Eielson AFB complex during the height of the Cold War. This webpage is an attempt to preserve some memory of the place and time that is rapidly disappearing. If you stumbled across this webpage by means other than the link from the NIKE-HERCULES ALASKA INDEX page, you may wish to go there first for a little background information before proceeding. Please CLICK HERE to do so,

then follow the link to Site JIG back here. Thank you.

AADCP, HHB-2-562 ADA Site JIG (sited at D btry)

"The Alt AADCP that was at Jig site was about 500 yards or a little more to the north of "D" Btry, When I got there it had an AN/TPS 1D radar set up on 2 Nissie buildings. Then we got a new building with a fiberglass dome and changed to an AN FPS-36 and later to an ANFPS- 61. That was about the time they first set up the firing range and fired the first Hercules outside of the lower 48."