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Fort Bragg Radar Station

(Fort Bragg Defensive Position, Radar Station B-74)

 

The History of the 4th AA Command lists a Radar Station B-74 as being located at Fort Bragg. For security reasons, the site was also known as Fort Bragg Defenseive Position, Harbor Defenses of San Francisco. Radar Stations during this period of Army Air Forces control would have been assigned to the 411th Army Air Forces Base Unit (San Francisco Control Group) in Berkeley, CA.

In the 20 March 1946 document titled Detailed Plan for the Retrenchment of Fourth Air Force Control Group Installation, the Chief, Control Group Division, Fourth Air Force recommended that this site be removed. Assigned to the San Francisco Control Group.

Concerning the location of said radar station, when querying Mr. Bud d'Arezzo of the Fort Bragg-Mendocino Coast Historical Society, the only Army installation they know of in the immediate vicinity was on Bald Hill, just northeast of the city of Fort Bragg. This site is the highest point in the area and is used as a microwave site and a transmitter site for local radio stations. This site is consistent with the deployment of radar equipment of the period. However, this information though is purely anecdotal and should be more fully investigated

Posted 16 March 2008.

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