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McClellan AFB Annex

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McLellan AFB Annex #1 ("McClellan Anx #1")[specify] 

was a military installation near McClellan Air Force Base in Contra Costa County, California, that was active from 28 November 1951 to 2 July 1956.[1]:398  Strategic Air Command operated an automatic tracking radar station (call sign "Sacramento Bomb Plot") just outside of the base at Whitney and Eastern avenues[2] (38°36′19″N 121°25′30″W / 38.605201°N 121.425018°W / 38.605201; -121.425018[3]).

Background[]

Colorado Spring's 206th Army Air Force Base Unit at the end of WWII had Radar Bomb Scoring detachments at Kansas City and Dallas and in 1946, RBS evaluated 888 simulated bomb runs on San Diego. By 1950,.[4] RBS Detachment D was at "Fort George Wright, Spokane, Washington [with] Commander: Lt. John Jones".[5] Detachment D moved* to near McClellan AFB c. September 1951 and was renamed Detachment 12 of the 3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron, then subsequently Detachment 4 of the 3933rd RBS Squadron[6] before closing[Clarification needed] as an 11th RBSS Detachment 4[7] radar site in January 1962.[2]

A second RBS detachment was established at Fort George Wright and in 1957, moved to Boise, Idaho.[8] In 1961, a Fort Stevens RBS detachment also moved to Boise.[9]

References[]

  1. ↑ Mueller, Robert (1989). Air Force Bases (Report). VolumeI: Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982. Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-53-6. http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100921-026.pdf. "Between 1 Jan 1951 and 28 Feb 1975 the base commander of Ent AFB also commanded Peterson Fld." 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 userid: ec121h (Jan 24, 2002). "Subject: Re: Det 4, 11th RBS" (Yahoo newsgroup posting #3218). http://groups.yahoo.com/group/combatevaluationgroup/message/3218. "Det 4, 11th RBS was at Sacramento, just outside McClellan AFB. It was located in a residential neighborhood (Whitney & Eastern Aves). Closed own [sic] in Jan of 1962." 
  3. ↑ "Eastern Avenue & Whitney Avenue, Sacramento, CA - Google Maps". Maps.google.com. 1970-01-01. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Eastern+Avenue+%26+Whitney+Avenue,+Sacramento,+CA&hl=en&sll=38.605201,-121.425018&sspn=0.098598,0.209255&t=h&hnear=Eastern+Ave+%26+Whitney+Ave,+Arden-Arcade,+Sacramento,+California+95821&z=16. Retrieved 2013-10-13. 
  4. ↑ "3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Group" (Web Bulletin Board). KoreanWar.org. http://www.koreanwar.org/html/units/usaf/3903rbs.htm. Retrieved 2012-05-20. "Served…from October, 1957 to June, 1962. …Keesler AFB for tech school, then…at Los Angeles RBS site" 
  5. ↑ "Units 726-6483". Mobileradar.org. http://www.mobileradar.org/unit_726_6483.html. Retrieved 2013-10-19. 
  6. ↑ [1] [dead link]
  7. ↑ "Thailand-Laos-Cambodia Brotherhood". Tlc-brotherhood.org. http://www.tlc-brotherhood.org/Election%20Postings.htm. Retrieved 2013-10-18. 
  8. ↑ [2] [dead link]
  9. ↑ [3] [dead link]
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