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The "WELCOME 6" Continuation Training Launch on 13th December 1960 of Thor missile No 47 that had been transported from Harrington to Vandenberg AFB, California, USA.

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THOR MISSILE DEPLOYMENT IN THE UK

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SQDN LDR J.C. BURCH' S MEMORIES OF RAF HARRINGTON

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HISTORY OF No 218 SQUADRON RAF

 

Thor Links

 

Thor fact sheet: www.spaceline.org/rocketsum/thor.html

Strategic Air Command's page on the Thor missile: http://strategic-air-command.com/missiles/Thor/Thor_Missile_Home_Page.htm

Wikipedia’s entry on the Thor missile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-17_Thor

The Institute of Historical Research article on The Thor IRBM and the Cuban missile crisis: http://www.history.ac.uk/ejournal/art3.html

Folkingham’s Deadly Secret: http://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/article9.htm

Shepherd’s Grove weapon store and Thor sites: http://www.century20war.co.uk/page19.html

The Douglas Thor in RAF service by Martin Powell: http://www.rossavsoc.co.uk/Report3.html

Boeing’s short history on the Thor: http://www.boeing.com/history/mdc/thor.htm

Operation Emily, the surveying of the Thor sites in Eastern England: http://albiefield.co.uk/UK/OPEMILY/index.htm

US Thor restoration project: http://www.airforcespaceandmissilemuseum.org/Thor%20Restoration.htm

Siloworlds webpage on the Thor: http://www.siloworld.com/THOR/THOR.HTM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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