Cold War air defense of Pittsburgh

[ditchdigger]

Originally Posted by nighthawk26

For those who may be interested, I have 1956-1957 aerial photos of all
the AAA sites in and around Pittsburgh and will send them to you if you wish.

I'd love to see them. I've DMed you my email address, if you don't want to post them on the forum.


While we're on the subject, here's a web page (not recently updated though), about air raid sirens, and in particular, the one that once sat on top of Carrick High School: VictorySiren.com - Internet Home for the Chrysler Air Raid Siren

Designed with no other purpose than to transform gasoline into noise...

[szug-bot]

if i recall correctly (and i may be wrong), through the heady days of the cold war Pittsburgh was #2 on the Soviet's list of most significant targets until the early 1980s.

[ditchdigger]

Originally Posted by szug-bot

if i recall correctly (and i may be wrong), through the heady days of the cold war Pittsburgh was #2 on the Soviet's list of most significant targets until the early 1980s.

I say this not to be a wiseguy, because I've posted often on how I'd like to see us regain some of our lost industrial standing, but I wonder where our Eds and Meds economy would have us on the target list nowadays. (Seriously.)