Front:
UNITED STATES AIR F ORCE
AIR FORCE MISSILE
DEVELOPMENT
CENTER
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
Back:
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AIR FORCE MISSILE DEVELOPMENT CENTER, NEW
MEXICO. Located 9 miles west of Alamogordo
near the Great White Sands. This is the home of
Rocket Research for the U.S. Air Force. Testing
is done on the Alamogordo Bomb Range, famous
for Trinity Site, "Birthplace of Atomic Energy,'
where the world's first Atomic Bomb was exploded
on July 16, 1945.
Color Photo by Gene Aiken
Published by F. J. Schaaf, Alamogordo, New Mexico
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