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Anyone For A Roadtrip To McCook?
GreyGeek:
--- Quote from: sidearm1 on March 22, 2013, 08:54:43 PM ---I think he had Hastings NE confused with McCook.
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That's what I thought, but considering the "war" against terror and the battles in the Mid-East, and how old some Google maps are, I was wondering. Except for those purchased by businesses, which are closest to highway 6, nearly all of the bunkers near Hastings have been leveled.
Gary:
I don't remember where they are exactly, made the trip to Binkelman several times, and seems to me there were a vast amount of them somewhere along a two lane east west highway. Most doors closed, a few doors open.
lefty:
A person needs to get south of Hwy #6. Fairfield to Genvil and north to Hastings has lots of bunkers. Some are used for confinement hogs and other ag uses. Check out Goggle Earth, you can see the bunkers there.
sidearm1:
Just got back from McCook. No bunkers anywhere. I talked to a couple of old timers, and one said he worked at the old Army Air Base (northwest of McCook a couple of miles) and that everything except the Norden Bombsight bunker are gone. As stated above, he said they are trying to make that bunker into a museum of sorts. The oldtimer stated that when they went on breaks they always tried to "find stuff" that wasn't picked up by the military. He stated that he would have loved to have found a old 50 caliber machine gun, but they just found a few pieces from the Ammo belt.
Gary:
--- Quote from: lefty on March 26, 2013, 07:03:06 AM ---A person needs to get south of Hwy #6. Fairfield to Genvil and north to Hastings has lots of bunkers. Some are used for confinement hogs and other ag uses. Check out Goggle Earth, you can see the bunkers there.
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As I recall, it looked like some of them, were converted to ag use, as you said. I also remember them being along a railroad line.
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