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ALASKA

Echo Battery

2nd Missile Battalion, 562nd Artillery

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Updated 14 January, 2007

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What is this all about?

E 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,

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then follow the link back to Site LOVE. Thank you.

The photo at the top of the page is of a practice missile fired by the crew of Echo battery in the winter of 1967

Site LOVE was the northernmost of all of the Alaskan Nike Hercules missile batteries.