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Camp Cooke and Vandenberg Air Force Base, 1941-1966 in Garey, California

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Camp Cooke and Vandenberg Air Force Base, 1941-1966
Price: $37
Date/Time:30 Aug, 09:06 p.m. EST
Type: Books, For Sale - Private.

Recently published, this book examines the intriguing story of an Army training camp in California from World War II through the end of the Korean War in xxxx. During the war years, Cooke also hosted many USO camp shows that attracted some of Hollywood?s leading entertainers as well as many more from radio and stage.
In xxxx the camp was officially turned over to the Air Force and a year later renamed Vandenberg Air Force Base. The installation has since become an internationally recognized missile and space rocket base. America?s first spy satellite program, known as Corona (code-named Discoverer), was conducted from Vandenberg. The intelligence data collected from these missions exploded the myth of a "missile gap" with the Soviet Union. At the height of the Cold War America?s first ICBM missile equipped with a nuclear warhead was based at Vandenberg.
Among the high-profile visitors to the base was President John F. Kennedy who witnessed the launch of an Atlas missile. And as part of an unprecedented trip to the United States, Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev passed through the base on a locomotive in xxxx.
 
284pp. Softcover (6 x 9), xxxx
102 photos, 5 maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index.
Publisher: McFarland & Company. (www.mcfarlandpub.com)
 
I would be delights to sign the book. Please let me know how and to whom you wish to have the book signed.
 
Send check or money order for $37.95 (free postage) to:
Jeffrey Geiger
P.O. Box xxxx
Santa Maria, CA xxxx4-xxxx
*****THIS OFFER VALID TO SEPTEMBER 14, xxxx*****
THANK YOU.

State: California  City: Garey  Zip code: 93454 Category: Books
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