Bayshore Bomb Scoring Site Explained

The Bayshore Bomb Scoring Site ("base facility identifier" 26001F)^[1] is a Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS) that was used as a Strategic Air Command radar station for Radar Bomb Scoring. The site was activated in 1963^[2] 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.^[3]

The Bayshore site was rebuilt after a 1967 television fire, closed in 1985.^[4]

Notes

The Ironwood RBS site was established when the unit and equipment moved from Guam (10th RBS Squadron Det 12)^[5] in July 1960.^[6]

Web site: CSSMM Explanation Of Data . 2014-01-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131105031338/http://www.palmcenter.org/files/active/0/CSSMM_ExplanationOfData.pdf . 2013-11-05 . dead .
Web site: 38 years ago, B-52 crash claimed nine lives near former Big Rock Point - Petoskey News . 2013-03-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201213843/http://articles.petoskeynews.com/2009-10-05/lake-michigan_24016911 . 2014-02-01 . dead .
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.https://web.archive.org/web/20130409221908/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD0741413
Web site: Contact Information . 2012-07-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120128191812/http://www.det6.com/contact2.htm . 2012-01-28 .
News: March 3, 1960 . Guam Crew Will Staff U.P. Radar . . 2012-07-09 .
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zXxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9A8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7157,5158421&dq=bomb-scoring-unit&hl=en