Bayshore Bomb Scoring Site

The Bayshore Bomb Scoring Site ("base facility identifier" 26001F)[1] is a Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS)[2] that was used as a Strategic Air Command radar station for Radar Bomb Scoring. The site was activated in 1963[3] at Charlevoix, Michigan by Detachment 6 of the 1CEVG's Radar Bomb Scoring Division. Det 6 moved to the site from Ironwood, Michigan,* and was tracking the 1971 Big Rock Point B-52 crash.[4]

The Bayshore site was rebuilt after a 1967 television fire, closed in 1985.[5]

References
  • The Ironwood RBS site was established when the unit and equipment moved from Guam (10th RBS Squadron Det 12)[6] in July 1960.[7]
  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2014-01-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/133605mp.pdf
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2013-03-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. The 1961 Charlevoix B-52 crash was the basis for the case study of the hypothetical "Harperville Radar Bomb Scoring facility" with Oil Burner route near a fictional Trinon nuclear plant.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-01-28. Retrieved 2012-07-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Guam Crew Will Staff U.P. Radar". The Milwaukee Sentinel. March 3, 1960. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  7. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zXxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9A8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7157,5158421&dq=bomb-scoring-unit&hl=en



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