Hawthorne Bomb Plot

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For the Hawthorne USO Site 26-105[1] (FUDS J09NV0825[2]), see Camp Jumbo.
Hawthorne Bomb Plot
Navy Fallon RBS[3]: 12 
Babbitt, Nevada
Near Hawthorne, Nevada
Babbitt-Map2.gif
Map of Babbitt, with the station to the east
Coordinates38°32′10.84″N 118°38′2.73″W / 38.5363444°N 118.6340917°W / 38.5363444; -118.6340917
Site information
OperatorUnited States Air Force
Site history
FateDemolished
Garrison information
Past
commanders		Unknown-1966 Lt Col Hollacher[4]
1966-Unknown Lt Col McHan[5]

Hawthorne Bomb Plot[6] is a Formerly Used Defense Site that had a Strategic Air Command (SAC) AUTOTRACK radar station during the Cold War. Operations began at a temporary RBS train site[specify] for RBS Express #2 was at the Hawthorne area in December 1961,[7] and the 11th [8] subsequently established the fixed military installation for Radar Bomb Scoring in Babbitt, Nevada, the military housing community near the local Navy/Army[specify] .[4]

Detachment 12 operated and maintained the radars, e.g., c. 1977-2000, Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central (serial number 10) was at the Hawthorne Bomb Plot after use for Guam RBS and Vietnam Combat Skyspot bombing.[9] The unit was reassigned to 1CEVG's RBS Division in 1966 and tracked training sorties at the Nellis Air Force Range (e.g., during the Vietnam War)[10] and scored SAC bombers. Hawthorne's Oil Burner route ("OB-10 Hawthorne") for SAC low-level bomber flights extended from a "point west of Elko, Nevada, running southwest to Mina, Nevada" at flight level "FL130-140"[11] (the Tonopah "SAC Targets 1 and 2"[12] were at South Antelope Lake.)[13]

The USAF detachment publicized their 1985 move to the ,[14] but the Hawthorne radar station was still used by NAS Fallon in 1993,[15] and the Whiskey Flats RV park was established in the general location of the former radar station[16] in 2004.[citation needed]

External images
image icon 11th RBS site images
image icon nearby SAC 1 & 2 Target area (p. 12)

References[]

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ http://www.corpsfuds.com/reports/…/J09NV0825pictures.pdf.svn-base[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Combat Evaluation Group - A place for CEVG'ers and Range Rats to Meet" (Yahoo newsgroup) |format= requires |url= (help). Founded: January 9, 2000. Check date values in: |date= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)    Citations in chronological order:
      12. [who?] ([when?]). "title?". Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (Google webcache of Message 12308 retrieved 2013-05-01)   43. [who?] ([when?]). "title?". Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (Google webcache of Message 43382 retrieved 2013-05-01)
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Young Men To Enter Academies". Mineral County Independent News. June 22, 1966. Retrieved 2012-07-09. Lt. Col. … Hollacher has been in command of the SAC Radar Bomb Scoring unit located in Babbitt.
  5. ^ "RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Selvage and Peterson Families and More".
  6. ^ "Mineral County Independent-News - Google News Archive Search".
  7. ^ "Hawthorne "Bombed" Daily". Nevada State Journal. December 14, 1961. Retrieved 2012-06-20.
  8. ^ [verification needed]Babbitt, NV Historical Calendar (photograph) |format= requires |url= (help), Hawthorne Ordnance Museum: Mineral County Museum, 2007 (printed 2006) Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ Murphy, Shane (July 3, 2006). "Re: New member looking for information" (1CEVG newsgroup posting). Groups.Yahoo.com (message 23682). Retrieved 2012-07-11. around 1972/1973? There was a plaque in the Day room about the Day and year the site was commissioned in Guam, w/ the original crew members names. …on the very Northern tip of the Island. Not sure why it was moved [to a 2nd Guam site.] the AN/MSQ-77 was shipped direct from Vietnam to Guam. External link in |publisher= (help)
  10. ^ "Mineral County Independent-News - Google News Archive Search".
  11. ^ [dead link]Proposed IAO/DTE Resource Availability (PDF) (Report). c. 1970. Retrieved 2013-04-18. OB-10-Hawthorne: A point west of Elko, Nevada, running southwest to Nuna, Nevada FL130-140)[permanent dead link]
  12. ^ Closure Report for Corrective Action Unit 408: Bomblet Target Area Tonopah Test Range (TTR), Nevada (PDF) (Report). DOE/NV--1409. Nevada Environmental Restoration Project. September 2010. Retrieved 2013-05-19. SAC I & II Targets contained forty-five (45) 100m x 100m grids. … the boundary for the SAC Target locations encompassed an area of approximately 72 acres
  13. ^ Tonopah Test Range…Corrective Action Sites (Report). DOE/NV/25946--1036. CAS TA-55-002-TAB2 (Bomblet Target Areas) consists of six separate locations [that] include Mid Target, area, SAC Target, South Antelope Lake, and Tomahawk Targets 1 and 2 … CAS RG-52-007-TAML (Davis Gun Penetrator Test) consists of Davis Gun testing locations on , , , and , and 1, Antelope Tuff 2, , , and (Nellis Range 75). The only location with land use restrictions is Antelope Lake. (for SAC Targets 1 and 2, see DOE/NV--1409)
  14. ^ "Air Force Group Bids Farewell to Hawthorne" (Google News Archive). Mineral County Independent-News. May 29, 1985. Retrieved 2013-05-16. …the majority of the personnel will be moving with the radar equipment to Havre, Montana. cf. Baker RBS Site (MT89799F06160), Forsythe RBS Site (FUDS B08MT0282), Poplar RBS Site (MT89799F0660001), & Wibaux RBS Site (MT89799F07020)
  15. ^ [who?] ([when?]). "title?" (1CEVG newsgroup posting). Groups.Yahoo.com (message 12650). Retrieved 2013-05-01. Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |publisher= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)[permanent dead link]
  16. ^ "Babbitt (13)" (caption for town photograph). flickr. 2011-11-08. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
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