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The Dock, Johnston Island Looks like the Navy is here! |
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Construction everywhere! Johnston Island, 1962 |
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Looking out toward Sand Island. Taken from the control
tower, Main St. to the left, an underground bunker entrance on the right.
In upper right: a large pile of debris left from one of the failed missile
shots. |
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Refreshments Anyone? This was the place to buy
a cold drink and was called the "Dominic Double Dip." |
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Thor Rocket Up Close. Easy does it. Wow!
This is one big sucker! I wonder what this guard is looking at Humm.
It says "Thor." Now don't drop it! |
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One of the new launch pads, ready for flight.
A few weeks before, the area that I am taking the picture from, was ocean!
This dredged coral stuff gets into everything! |
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Two large dredgers grind up coral from the reef, then
force it through the floating pipes to the island in the background.
Before dredging, the island was only one mile long and a half mile wide.
They had brought the biggest dredger in the world in from Turkey and were
extending the island to three miles long. |