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winds or overpressure. This was accomplished

through the use of bolts connecting the tower
wheel trucks to metal plates embedded in the
foundation.
Two pairs of rails were laid between the
firing and auxiliary pad for moving the tower.
The tracks were laid on wood ties and gravel
ballast. Two concrete revetments for trailers
were located about 125 feet from the firing pad
and about 90° apart. They were 14 feet high
with one 25 feet long and the other 30 feet long.
Each had 12-foot-long wing walls and about
5 feet of earth fill in front. Each of two small
concrete revetments were located in diagonally
opposite corners of the firing pad area about
120 feet from the pad centerline. They were 12
feet long, 64% feet high, with 10-foot-long wing

walls and were to be used to house fire protection
water nozzles. The nozzles were subsequently
relocated to the 25-foot-long trailer revetment
to furnish water to the center of the firing pad
in the event of a fire. Two salt water wells and
diesel-driven pumps provided the water.

Concrete cable trenches were located between the firing pad and 30-foot-long revetment,
between the two revetments, and from the first
trench to the diagonally opposite corner of the

pad. These trenches were 2 feet wide, 114 feet
deep, and were provided with steel cover plates.

Close to the firing pad a timber personnel
shelter, 24x26x8 feet high, was placed. The
shelter was skid-mounted and contained receptacles and lights circuited to a portable plug,
which connected to a power receptacle on the
pad.

A skid-mounted portable wood shelter was
provided for use as weather protection during
a possible horizontal check-out of the missile. The
shelter was 16x35x17 feet high with open ends
and plywood roof and sides. The entire firing
pad area and the railway between it and the
auxiliary pad were illuminated by floodlights.
Receptacles were provided throughout the pad
area for trailers and miscellaneous equipment.

With the relocation of the ABMA Program,
this facility was dismantled and moved to the
new site at Johnston Island.
STATION:

6002

SITE:

How

USER:

ABMA

PURPOSE:
PARTICIPATION:
DESIGN PSI:
CONSTRUCTION:

Control Bunker
None
1.5 psi
10-18-57/4-10-58

An earth-covered, reinforced concrete struc-

ture, 43x53x10 feet high, had 12-inch walls, a

14-inch roof, and a 6-inch floor. The forward wall
was 14 inches thick. The walls were supported
on spread footings. There were four rooms within the building, two instrument rooms, a stand-

by room, and an equipment room. There were

1x14-foot cable trenches with steel cover plates
along the interior perimeter of both instrument
rooms and along two walls in the stand-by room
and one wall in the equipment room. A concrete

cable duct extended out of the building through
the fill from the interior cable trenches. Cables
her

(Neg. No. W-V-175-1)
Figure No. 2-66.

Station 6002 — How — 48% Complete.

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