The 548th Strategic Missile Squadron operating out of Forbes Air Force Base was responsible for this and eight other Atlas E sites in Kansas. This particular location operated from 1960 through 1965.
An official investigation was scheduled today into the accident at an Atlas missile launching site which took the lives of six men Thursday afternoon. An official of the Corps of Engineers ...
More than 70 Atlas F Missile Silos were built in the United States, many of which are in the great plains. The site cost $12.8 million to build at the time, equivalent to more than $120 million today.