military
10 articles on military.
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Ellsworth Air Force Base and Rapid City's Wartime Transformation
How a World War II training field east of Rapid City, South Dakota, grew into Ellsworth Air Force Base and reshaped the economy and identity of the Gateway to the Black Hills.
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The Great Sioux War of 1876
The 1876 campaigns and battles, including the Little Bighorn, that followed the invasion of the Black Hills near Rapid City.
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The Rapid City Army Air Base in World War II
In 1942 the Army built an air base east of Rapid City, South Dakota, training heavy bomber crews and binding the Black Hills town to military aviation.
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General Richard Ellsworth and the 1953 Crash
How a fatal 1953 bomber crash near Newfoundland gave Rapid City, South Dakota, the name it still uses for the air base east of town: Ellsworth.
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The B-36 Peacemaker Era at Ellsworth
In the early Cold War, enormous B-36 Peacemaker bombers flew from the prairie east of Rapid City, South Dakota, part of the Black Hills region's nuclear watch.
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Minuteman Missiles on the South Dakota Prairie
For decades, Minuteman nuclear missiles waited in silos buried across the ranchland around Rapid City, South Dakota, and the Black Hills, hidden in plain sight.
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The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
Near the Badlands east of Rapid City, South Dakota, a preserved launch control center and missile silo let visitors stand inside the region's long Cold War watch.
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The South Dakota Air and Space Museum
At the gate of Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City, South Dakota, the South Dakota Air and Space Museum gathers the aircraft of the Black Hills region's military century.
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Ellsworth Air Force Base and the Rapid City Economy
For generations Ellsworth Air Force Base has been a major employer near Rapid City, South Dakota, and the Black Hills, and a near-closure once shook the city.
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The Cold War Boom: Rapid City Grows Around Ellsworth
After World War II, the air base and its missile mission reshaped Rapid City, South Dakota, driving the growth that made it a true regional center.