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. ↑ http://www.palmcenter.org/files/active/0/CSSMM_ExplanationOfData.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/133605mp.pdf
  3. ↑ http://articles.petoskeynews.com/2009-10-05/lake-michigan_24016911
  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.
  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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