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The General Services Administration is conducting a fire sale of government real estate, ... Cheap Military Property for Sale, but Buyers Better Prepare for Battle. Ron Dicker. Updated July 14, ...
Camp Evans Historic District is an area of the Camp Evans Formerly Used Defense Site in Wall Township, New Jersey.The site of the military installation is noted for a 1941 transatlantic radio receiver and various World War II/Cold War laboratories of the United States Army (e.g., signal, vacuum tube, dosimetry, & photo-optics
The Ranch-style house is 23 ft (7.0 m) underground and has brick veneer siding but is enclosed in a waterproof concrete shell measuring approximately 16,000 sq ft (1,500 m 2) and covered with a compacted earth berm. The Clark County, Nevada Records show that the Underground House is on 1.05 acres (0.42 ha). [1]
The 50,000 square feet (4,600 m 2) [4] facility was built on 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) in 1941 as a World War II air defense center to coordinate radar installations in the Los Angeles area. [3] When the studio was established in 1947, its purpose was kept secret.
Fort Ritchie in Cascade, Maryland was a military installation southwest of Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania and southeast of Waynesboro in the area of South Mountain. Following the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission, it closed in 1998.
Fort Scott National Historic Site is a historical area under the control of the United States National Park Service in Bourbon County, Kansas, United States.Named after General Winfield Scott, who achieved renown during the Mexican–American War, during the middle of the 19th century the fort served as a military base for US Army action in what was the edge of settlement in 1850.
[2] BHOD was renamed "Black Hills Army Depot" (BHAD) in 1962. [1] Over the years, BHOD was used for storage and testing of chemical weapons, including sarin [4] and mustard gas. [5] Additionally, during World War II, the site also held Italian prisoners of war. [3] The Depot was closed on June 30, 1967, and the Igloo community was abandoned. [1]
The 930 m 2 (10,000 sq ft) shelter is composed of 42 school buses, which were buried underground as patterns for concrete that was then poured over to provide the main structure, onto which up to 5 meters (14 feet) of earth were piled to provide fallout protection. [5] With construction beginning in the early 1980s (during the Cold War), the ...