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A contact sheet from George Tames’s assignment for an Air Defense Command story out of The Times’s Washington Bureau. These photos show the main control panel of the control room of what was then referred to as the 607th Air Control and Warning Squadron at Manassas Air Force Station, near Dale City, Va. The station closed in 1965. May 25, 1955. Photo: George Tames/The New York Times