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Bayshore Bomb Scoring Site

Coordinates: 46°27′N 90°8′W / 46.450°N 90.133°W / 46.450; -90.133
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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]

Notes

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  • The Ironwood RBS site was established when the unit and equipment moved from Guam (10th RBS Squadron Det 12)[6] in July 1960.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "CSSMM Explanation Of Data" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
  2. ^ Defense Manpower Data Center Domain Values for Military Personnel Data Extracts (PDF), DoD, July 28, 2009, DoD Manual 1336.05-M, archived from the original (PDF) on Dec 24, 2010
  3. ^ "38 years ago, B-52 crash claimed nine lives near former Big Rock Point - Petoskey News". Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
  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.[1]
  5. ^ "Contact Information". 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.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zXxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9A8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7157,5158421&dq=bomb-scoring-unit&hl=en [dead link]

46°27′N 90°8′W / 46.450°N 90.133°W / 46.450; -90.133