A second Ryder Truck was in a clandestine camp in an abandoned Army base just before the Murrah blast.
The following photos are mirrored from http://members.aol.com/bardsquill/truck.htm.The pilot who took the photos wishes (for the obvious reasons) to remain anonymous, but these photos are purported to be of an area near Camp Gruber-Braggs, Oklahoma in early April of 1995. Needless to say, just days after this photo was taken, the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City was destroyed (along with internal cutter charges) by a Ryder truck full of explosives.
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for full size (111K) picture. Side view showing the Ryder truck. All
other vehicles are covered. Note the all encompassing screens set up to
conceal the presence of the trucks and the outer screen set up to conceal
the entire compound.
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for full size (112K) picture. Another angle.
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for full size (172K) picture. Wide area view of the above. Notice the
remotness of this installation. Also note the tree over the white concrete
to lower right.
Terra-server tracks down the camp!
By starting at http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ ...Look at the USGS topographic map for the location: http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.asp?T=2&S=13&X=189&Y=2468&Z=15&W=2
There is a Camp Gruber, and it is next to the small town of Braggs, Oklahoma. Note that the camp is marked as abandoned in early 1995, the very time when the clandestine base with the ryder truck was photographed in it.
Switching to wise angle overhead imagery, we start with http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.asp?T=1&S=14&X=94&Y=1234&Z=15&W=0
The area in the red box at lower right is seen in more detail in http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.asp?S=13&T=1&X=189&Y=2468&Z=15&W=1
The area in the red box at lower right is seen in more detail in http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=1517&Y=19747&Z=15&W=1
And enhanced...
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for full size picture. Now compare this to the following photo.
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for full size (172K) picture.
While the secret camp is obviously not in the Terra-server images,
thearrangement of the roads, surface stains, and the concrete strip prove
it's the same place.
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