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  • Home
  • ABOUT

    • What we are
    • FIND US
    • Contact Harrington Museum
    • Harrington Aviation Museum DropZone Newsletter
    • Museum Brochure
    • Videos
    • Other Media and Files
    • 801st/492nd BG Association
    • Other Links
  • EVENTS
  • HISTORY

    • The Beginning
    • History of Harrington Airfield
    • The 801st / 492nd Bomb Group
  • CARPETBAGGER

    • Operation Carpetbagger
    • Red Stocking & Joan-Eleanor Operations
    • Callahan’s Trapeze
    • Tempsford Airfield
  • THOR ROCKETS

    • Thor Missile Deployment in the UK
    • Memories of RAF Harrington 1959 to 1963
    • History of No 218 Squadron RAF
    • Thor Rockets Links
  • AMMO CAN

    • Aircraft Bomb Loads
    • The .303 British Service Cartridge
    • Cartridge Headstamp Guide
    • AMMUNITION LINKS
RAF Harrington
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.

Thor Links

(some archived versions)

Thor fact sheet

Strategic Air Command’s page on the Thor missile

Wikipedia’s entry on the Thor missile

The Institute of Historical Research article on The Thor IRBM and the Cuban missile crisis

Folkingham’s Deadly Secret

Shepherd’s Grove weapon store and Thor sites

The Douglas Thor in RAF service by Martin Powell

Boeing’s short history on the Thor

Operation Emily, the surveying of the Thor sites in Eastern England

US Thor restoration project

Harrington Thor Preservation Society

English Heritage Listing for the Harrington Thor site

English Heritage Listing for the North Luffenham Thor site

Encyclopaedia Astronautica webpage on the Thor missile

BCAR’s webpage on the Thor missile

RAF. Lincolnshire webpage on the Thor missile

Space Launch Report on the Thor missile

Thor History document

RAF Museum’s webpage on the Thor missile

The Cuban Missile Crises, A Nuclear Order of Battle

Missile testing at Vandenberg Air Force Base

Report to US Congress on the Initial Review of Ballistic Missile Programs 1960

Space Review article on Thor launch failures

Operation Dominic including the Starfish Prime, Bluegill Triple Prime, & Kingfish Thor nuclear weapon tests on Johnston Island

Johnston Atoll & the Thor missile

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