Fort Heath radar station

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rdf:langString The Fort Heath Direction Center for the Boston Defense Area controlled Nike batteries transferred to the National Guard --Nike Hercules sites B-05, 36, & 73 remained after the Nike Ajax sites closed.

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rdf:langString Winthrop, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, 1960-1962: Chicago-Gary

rdf:langString The DC was in the nuclear bunker, the largest building of the radar station.

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rdf:langString The Fort Heath radar station was a USAF radar site and US Army Missile Master installation of the joint-use site system (JUSS) for North American Air Defense at a former coastal defense site. The Cold War radar station had 2 USAF AN/FPS-6B height finding radars, 2 Army AN/FPS-6A height finders, an FAA ARSR-1 radar emplaced 1958-9, and an Army nuclear bunker. Arctic Towers were the pedestals for the FPS antennas and radomes, while the Air Route Surveillance Radar was on a 50-foot extension temperate tower adjacent to the Federal Aviation Administration building. For Boston Air Defense Sector operations (e.g., for radar tracks supporting the 26th ADMS BOMARC surface-to-air missile site at 41°40′56″N 070°32′21″W / 41.68222°N 70.53917°W), the USAF also used an Air Defense Command operations shelter (42°23′20″N 070°58′10″W / 42.38889°N 70.96944°W) for controlling the FPS-6Bs to process height requests from the sector's "Air Defense Control and Coordination System" (DC-02). Activated at the fort in 1959 was the headquarters for the 820th Radar Squadron which, instead of being designated a "SAGE" radar squadron as with other units, was renamed an AC&W Sq in 1961. The 820th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron inactivated in 1962 after the operation—instead of using a "P" (Permanent) or "Z" (SAGE) designation as with other NORAD/ADC sites—had used the "MM-1" designation for the ADDC planned for collocation with the Army's 3rd operational Missile Master.