A couple of photos of the Arch Hangar here.
http://www.strategic-air-command.com/bases/Loring_AFB.htm
My comm shop was just about a quarter mile from the Arch Hangar. We were BISS (Base-Installation Security Systems). So we maintained the intrusion detection systems around the wpns storage area and bomber alert area. Plus, we had the AF's cold weather test site for such systems, until they pulled the plug.
Seems a long long time ago now.
It was known as Boring Loring to many, but I had a snowmobile and a pair of skis, plus I liked the hunting and fishing, so it didn't bother me none.
"The Moose is Loose on Loring AFB." All gone now. :(
Somewhere in one of my photo albums I have a picture of the "moose crossing" traffic sign that was just inside the main gate.
Thanks for your informative and interesting reply. In the Spring of 1959 the D models were replaced at Loring, and my squadron (which should have read the 70th not 75th) was transferred to Biggs AFB at El Paso as the 334thBS. We were then given B-52B models which were soon on alert with nukes in the newly constructed “crow’s foot” and alert facility at the north end of the runway. I finally was moved to the radar nav position and spent 6 years there in B models.
I volunteered to return to Loring and was reassigned there in 1965 in B-52G models. In all I spent 12 years assigned to B-52 outfits and flew nearly 4000 hours in the Buff.
I too am a hunter and fisherman and really enjoyed hunting those huge whitetails, shooting black ducks and woodcock and catching landlocks on Square Lake to name a few endeavors. I also owned and hunted three Plott hounds while there and ran bear, bobcat and raccoon. My hunting partner was a longtime Loringite T/Sgt. Brent Adams a recip mechanic.