Camp Pedricktown radar station
| Camp Pedricktown radar station | |
| military command and control facility | |
 The Camp Pedricktown command post controlled fire units in the Philadelphia Defense Area. | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | New Jersey |
| Region | Philadelphia Defense Area |
| Command | Army Air Defense Command |
| Parts | AN/FSG-1, AN/FPS-8, AN/FPS-6[1] |
| Nearest city | Wilmington, Delaware |
| Location | AADCP |
| - coordinates | 39°45′12″N 75°27′00″W / 39.753393°N 75.450068°WCoordinates: 39°45′12″N 75°27′00″W / 39.753393°N 75.450068°W [2] |
| Construction AADCP closed |
1959-60* September 1966 [3] |
| Site # | PH-64DC |
The Camp Pedricktown Air Defense Base[3][4] was a Cold War Missile Master installation with an Army Air Defense Command Post, and associated search, height finder, and identification friend or foe radars. The station's radars were subsequently replaced with radars at Gibbsboro Air Force Station[1] 15 mi (24 km) away. The obsolete Martin AN/FSG-1 Antiaircraft Defense System,a 1957-vintage vacuum tube computer, was removed after command of the defense area was transferred to the command post at Highlands Air Force Station near New York City. The Highlands AFS command post controlled the combined New York-Philadelphia Defense Area.[4]
The site is used by the Sievers Sandberg Reserve Center which occupies 39 acres (16 ha), and the station with intact bunker[2] was designated an historic site in 1998 by the Salem Historic Preservation Office. The 2000 environmental report for the station is the Recordation of the Nike Missile Master Complex Pedrickstown U.S. Army Reserve Support Facility.[5]
Construction in New Jersey under the Philadelphia District of the Army Corps of Engineers transferred to the New York District on July 1, 1960.[6]
 modern oblique overhead images of bunker | |
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1970s ground view of bunker, p. 151 |
References
- 1 2 "title tbd". Radomes.org. Retrieved 2011-09-21.
- 1 2 "Pedricktown Missile Master bunker" (Google Maps). Retrieved 2011-09-17.
- 1 2 "AN/FSG-1 Missile Master and AN/TSQ-51 Missile Mentor:". The Historic Atlantic Highlands Military Reservation (MR). Fort Tilden. November 11, 2005. Retrieved 2011-09-15.
- 1 2 "Nike Site PH-64DC Army Air Defense Command Post Pedricktown, NJ". LiveJournal.com. November 29, 2005. Retrieved 2011-09-14.
- ↑ Weidlich, Robin J.; Gettings Smith, Kathryn A.; Trieschmann, Laura V. (2000). Recordation of the Nike Missile Master Complex Pedrickstown U.S. Army Reserve Support Facility (Report). Retrieved 2011-09-19.
- ↑ "Military Construction and Supply [Pages 145-156]" (PDF). The District: A History of the Philadelphia District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1866-1971. January 1974. Retrieved 2011-09-21.