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WASHINGTON

1) NUCLEAR TARGETS
Date----Type----Target---Notes
10/28/62 SS-N-4 Seattle

2) ORGANIZED MILITARY FORCES 41st Infantry Division
---2nd Battalion/161st Infantry Regiment--Seattle area (4000 men, 40 AFVs)
------Able Company--Bellingham (110 men)
---------1st Alternative Cavalry Platoon--Bellingham (25 men)
---------Platoon 3 (Rogues)--Richland (100 men)
31st Provisional Marine Battalion--Bremerton (500 men)

3) PUGET SOUND AREA
Stretching from the Seattle metroplex south and west to the state capital at Olympia, the Puget Sound area was and still is the economic hub of Washington and the Pacific Northwest. This area has suffered greatly but is also seen by most as the hope of the future.
The war: Late in the night of October 28, 1962, the Russian Golf I class ballistic missile submarine B-109 snuck past ASW screens and fired her two nuclear missiles at the city. The first SS-N-4 was intercepted by a Nike guided missile over Vancouver Island and destroyed. This, incidentally, was one of the extremely rare occasions that the Nike ABM system actually worked as advertised. The second Russian missile made it through to the city, despite being chased all the way there by several more Nikes. The 1 megaton warhead, aimed at the port facilities, missed a little and high-air burst above Lake Sammamish in the eastern suburb of Bellevue. Eastern Seattle along Lake Washington was badly damaged by the blast and firestorms, with bricks and mortar from blown-down buildings spilling over into the lake.
The city today: Much of the infrastructure of western and southern Seattle is still intact and it is in these areas that the bulk of the activity and population still exist. The city today is run today by military-supported granola collectivists who are busy collectivizing the city. Unfortunately, while they have the right idea at heart, they are just as greedy as the bourgeois capitalists that they claim they are seeking to replace. They are beginning an ambitious project to harvest kelp in Puget Sound to feed a growing population. Other parts of the city are not as organized. Large areas of the northern part of the city, especially in the Lake Forest Park area, have been abandoned to scavengers and roving packs of feral canines. In the downtown Seattle area, the 74-acre Seattle Center was abandoned, most of the buildings extensively damaged by the elements and neglect. In the middle of the Center the Space Needle, pride of the city, is rusting and tilting several degrees to the west, having been damaged by the pressure wave. No one lives in Bellevue today and the area is still considered off limits. Not even rats live in the rubble zone and nature is fast reclaiming the ruins.
The Army in Seattle: The MilGov forces in the Seattle area consist of the main bulk of the Washington National Guard 2nd Battalion/161st Infantry Regiment of the 41st Infantry Division. The 41st ID, with units in both Washington and Oregon, was mobilized in late 1962 and a number of components were trucked to ports along the coast and shipped to Europe. This battalion was not shipped off with its parent division in 1963 due to the horrible condition of the state at the time and the need to secure the Seattle area's vital ports and airfields to conduct the war in the Far East. At the same time, the 4th Infantry Division was also in the city, quartered at Fort Lewis. This division was moved at great expense to Utah in 1963, leaving the Washington National Guard to care for the city, causing much complaint with the men who wanted to go home. The 2/161st Infantry is now part of the reconstituted 5th Army (headquartered in San Jose, California), and the northernmost unit of that Army. Total strength is about 4,000 troops, which includes numerous local recruits, large numbers of soldiers left behind when the 4th Infantry Division moved out, and former Air Force and Navy personnel. Equipment includes forty tanks and twenty APCs, as well as numerous trucks and jeeps, many of which are armed, or can be armed, with machineguns to provide internal security. The 2/161st Infantry has devoted itself to providing security to the region, as well as salvaging high-tech equipment from the various laboratories in the Seattle area. They also run frequent convoys north to Bellingham and south to the Portland-area Army enclaves and provide security on the roads between the two. The 2/161st Infantry has had it's troubles, however, many of them internal. Late last year the battalion's commander severed ties with MilGov, held a purge of uncooperative officers, and declared himself to be the "Proconsul of the Northwest". Within a few weeks, however, when it became obvious that the self-proclaimed "Proconsul" had gone quite mad, the battalion's command staff personnel overthrew him, elected a new CO and repledged loyalty to MilGov. 5th Army HQ has not forgotten this incident and still keeps a wary eye on the unit.
The Navy in Seattle: Seattle is now home to a displaced force of US Navy ships, most of them remnants of the Seventh Fleet, and all docked at Bremerton. Operational vessels include:
George Washington class ballistic missile submarine
SSBN-602 Abraham Lincoln
Nautilus class attack submarine
SSN-571 Nautilus
Skate class attack submarine
SSN-584 Seadragon
Forrest Sherman class destroyer
DD-933 Barry
John C. Butler class escort
DE-359 Woodson
One minesweeper
Five LCMs
Eight PT boats

All these vessels are handicapped by a scarcity of fuel and regular maintenance, but occasionally one will make the long trip south to the San Francisco area to exchange vital supplies. The Barry still goes to sea on a restricted basis, and has often patrolled Western British Columbia at the request of the Canadian Pacific Command to deal with captured coastal shipping being used by the Russians (her 5" guns rip up such ships very easily). As well, the Nautilus has gone on missions to recover friendly and enemy equipment and personnel in the Russian Far East and other locations. The 31st Provisional Marine Battalion (500 men) provides security to the Bremerton naval base and the area is relatively safe with the marines patrolling the streets even at night. The Navy has placed a large number of mines outside the shipping lanes into the port of Seattle, to keep any remaining Russian ships or subs out of the area.
The Air Force in Seattle: The enclave also has about thirty operational airplanes, all based at McChord Air Force Base in the southern suburb of Tacoma. These assets include three former Canadian Air Force planes (two fighters and an old B-17G bomber), four F-4 Phantom II jet fighters, a few private jets, a C-119 Flying Boxcar transport, an old T-6 trainer, and a dozen CH-47 Chinook helicopters. The 62nd Troop Carrier Wing was based at McChord before the war, and many of the staff and support personnel are still here helping to keep the planes flying. A number of pilots have been gathered, some Army, a lot of Air Force and even a few Marines. Until just this summer, the T-6 pilot was a former US Navy pilot from VMF-611 from the carrier Forrestal. As well, NAS Whidbey Island still operates a few A-1 Skyraiders, which are the remains of two PACFLT replacement training squadrons, who were pressed into flying combat missions against the Russian invasion Alaska and British Columbia.
The bad side: Beneath this veneer of civilization there is an undercurrent of violence in Seattle and there are several large groups of armed people who oppose the way things are run. The largest gang is called the "Sharks" and they are in tacit control of a large part of the city east of I-5 and south of Lake Union. They have about 325 effectives and are based out of the old Seattle Arboretum. The northeastern Seattle suburbs are home to the "Razorbacks" marauder gang, composed of ex-convicts who broke out of the Matsqui Penitentiary near Vancouver and thugs recruited since they came to Seattle. Tom "Fang" Strakes is the maniacal leader and those in his inner circle are all fellow escaped cons, while most of the lower ranking members are recent additions. The Razorbacks have adopted as their standard a blood-soaked, inverted British Columbia provincial flag as a symbol of their incarceration by the Canadian government. Including their leaders, the gang boasts some 130 members and are armed with a wide assortment of civilian and police weapons (sporting rifles, shotguns, revolvers, a few assault rifles and automatic pistols). A few members (Fang among them) have police-issue body armor. Most wear civilian clothes, although some take a sick pride in still wearing their old prison uniforms. Not all the trouble in Seattle is from gangs of civilians, however. Since last week, a food warehouse in Tacoma is currently under the control of a platoon of Army soldiers with half-a-dozen AFVs who have mutinied from Fort Lewis.
Bellingham: Large tracts of Bellingham were razed during the refugee migrations in late 1962 and early 1963. The northern parts of the town, including the airport, were spared because the citizens there fought the refugees to a standstill more than once in running battles. They were eventually saved by the arrival of a US Army unit from Seattle. Now, about 1,000 people live in Bellingham's eastern quarter in and around the Army's cantonment. They conduct trade with other coastal towns and with the few traveling merchants brave enough to wander the Seattle-to-Vancouver route. Bellingham's northern reaches are home to the detached Able Company of the 2/161st Infantry Regiment from Seattle (110 men). This unit is detailed to watch for any southern moves by the scattered Russian Army forces in British Columbia and protect the trade routes from marauders. The company has recently formed the "1st Alternative Cavalry Platoon" with 25 men and three Indian elephants. The elephants, originally belonging to the Bishop Brothers Circus, were set free in Bellingham in late 1962 when the crew and performers fled into the countryside. The town counsel is not entirely sure that the Army here is going to stay long and they have been making plans to protect themselves in that event. Based at the Bellingham airport is a functioning DNC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, along with 500 gallons of avgas, and pilots, parts and mechanics to maintain and fly it. They have dynamite, grenades, and Molotov cocktails stocked up to drop as bombs. The citizens will use their secret weapon only as a last resource to save their enclave, and fearing that they will requisition it, they have kept it secret from the Army unit in the town.
Russians: Elements of the Russian invasion force are still to be found in Washington state. While they were stopped far short of the border, a few small groups have managed to penetrate as south as Tacoma and can still be found in the area. These forces are little more than recon elements which are more concerned with survival than war.

4) OLYMPIC PENINSULA/WESTERN WASHINGTON
Though heavily depopulated, the small scattered communities on this rugged peninsula are surviving in these difficult times by the independent spirit that they are known for. The ample game in the forests provide enough food to assure their making it through this winter.
Forks: Forks is home to the largest survivor community in the area. A mixture of whites and Indians working together have turned the town into a fort. The 100-man Forks Militia is composed of civilians led by a small number of State Policemen and they maintain vigorous patrols of the nearby countryside. Militia members are armed with a variety of civilian and police small arms. They control the area up to and including Sappho to the northeast and they have a small airfield that they have maintained in the hope that someday it might be needed.
Port Angeles: The winter home of a large survivalist/marauder group called "Whitman's Raiders". They have recently found at Cape Flattery a secret cache of weapons placed in the 1950s by Communist Party agents for use by Russian commando units during a potential war.
Tree houses: A group of survivalists have formed a commune in the upper reaches of the Redwood forest, a village of rope bridges and Tarzan swings.

5) CENTRAL WASHINGTON
The central plateaus of Washington are notable for wide-open deserts and scattered survivor communities. Lice-type typhus is breaking out in the central highlands near the Canadian border.
Richland: Richland is now home of the secessionist-minded "Republic of Hanford", led by Sergeant DeHaven and his collection of turncoat National Guardsmen, survivalists and rogues. In the days after the nuclear strikes, DeHaven, as commander of the town's NG unit (Platoon 3 of the Able Company of the 2nd Battalion/161st Infantry Regiment) assumed almost dictatorial powers and organized the citizens into an effective militia using his National Guard platoon as a cadre. When the sea of refugees from Seattle arrived, they were faced by strong obstacles patrolled by armed guards. After trying unsuccessfully to bulldoze into the town by sheer numbers, they went around it and the town was saved. Now Richland has a shaky trading system established with other towns in the state, and the militia will allow small groups of people inside to conduct business. About 1,800 people now live in Richland and the NG platoon has expanded to about 100 men. Sergeant DeHaven legitimizes his power by claiming he is the "Washington State Government in Exile", and as such has the legal right to loot and pillage the countryside. His militiamen operate along the rugged, mountainous frontier of the Cascades, launching small scale raids, often hard to distinguish from the small bands of slavers and bandits that infest the frontier. They have recently set up an outpost in Ephrata, with some 40 impressed citizen militiamen here and have strung together the buildings on the outskirts to create a wall of sorts.
Hanford Site: To the northwest of Richland is the US Department of Energy's Hanford Site, now almost completely abandoned. This huge government reserve is rumored to be the home of a secret underground complex. There have been rumors circulating the region that President Kennedy himself has been seen at the base in recent months, though few believe it to be true.
Moses Lake: This town rests on the Wanatachee River and recently a strange violet algae has been spreading in the Potholes Reservoir that provides the town's water. The citizens are nervous because the gunk is spreading upriver and the fish have begun to disappear. There is much speculation that the old Hanford Site, roughly two days travel south from the reservoir, is causing the problems.
Larson Air Force Base: This air base near Moses Lake was obliterated by the masses of refugees which flowed over the valley in 1962 and 1963, looking for food and guns. Many of the building were gutted by fire and many more are simply abandoned. The sole occupant of Larson AFB is Willie, a friendly but half-crazed old hermit. Located in the woods around the air base are three empty Titan I missile silos. These ICBMs were launched at Russian targets and their silos abandoned soon after.

6) EASTERN WASHINGTON
Spokane: This small city has never had it easy. It was devastated by the hordes of refugees streaming east after the nuclear attack on Seattle in 1962. Looting, rape and murder drove out the inhabitants who survived, and the city is now almost completely abandoned. A small settlement in the Morgan Acres area of northeast Spokane has so far been able to fend off the ravages of the refugees and marauders. Approximately 600 people still live in this enclave, though their numbers are dwindling. Spokane is suffered horribly from the recent droughts and it is possible that by the new year the city will be largely abandoned to the scavengers. Fairchild Air Force Base, just west of Spokane, is now a mess. There are, however, some as yet undiscovered underground bunkers here containing thousands and thousands of cases of MREs, winter clothing encased in heavy plastic bags, M2 carbines, .30 cals and ammo, all for the taking. The empty Atlas E ICBM silos of the Fairchild Complex are spread about the countryside surrounding the city. The silos, abandoned after their missiles were launched in 1962, are located in the towns of Deer Park, Newman Lake, Rockford, Croskey, Lamona, Bluestem, Wilbur, Egypt and Crescent.