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    Gunnery and Bombing Range" was split at "37 degrees and 30 minutes" latitude into the "Tonopah General Range" and "Las Vegas General Range". On October...
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    the range. The missile range was originally established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range. On 16 July 1945, the first atomic bomb (code...
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    (air-to-ground bombing), or a remote area reserved for researching, developing, testing and evaluating new weapons and ammunition. Bombing ranges are used for...
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    strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military...
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    Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range or Barry M. Goldwater Range (BMGR), formerly known as Luke Air Force Range, is a bombing range in the U.S. state of Arizona...
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    The Badlands Bombing Range (BBR) refers to Rapid City Army Air Base target ranges for World War II which included the current Air Force Retained Area,...
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  • Tonopah Bombing Range was the original southern Nevada military area designated in 1940 (cf. the current Nevada Test and Training Range) and may refer...
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    relocated to Maxwell Field, Alabama, sought a location for a bombing and gunnery range. They saw the potential of the sparsely populated forested areas...
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    circular bombing targets in the desert. For the next two years aircraft shuttled back and forth between Muroc Dry Lake and March Field for Crew Bombing Practice...
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    Practice Bombing Ranges (DERP - FUDS SiteNo. J09NV1112). United States Army Corps of Engineers. March 1999. Final Inventory Project Report, Tonopah Bombing Range...
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    total of eight Mark 82 bombs on a civilian-populated area in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, injuring 43 people, close to a bombing range. The incident occurred...
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  • and Range ecoregions around the Tonopah Playas Tonopah Bombing Range, the 1940 World War II designation of the military region Tonopah Test Range, a nuclear...
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  • The Lowry Bombing and Gunnery Range (LBGR) was a World War II and Cold War facility that included 4 of the 6 HGM-25A Titan I missile launch complexes...
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    Systems Training Facility Boardman, informally known as the Boardman Bombing Range, is a military installation south of Boardman, Oregon in the United...
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    Precision Bombing Range No. 1 militarymuseum.org Victorville Precision Bombing Range No. 2 militarymuseum.org Victorville Precision Bombing Environmental...
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  • they are called Range lights (in the US), or leading lights (in the UK) An open stretch of land used for projectile testing Bombing range, a military test...
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    Aerial Gunnery Range (CMAGR) is a bombing range operated by the United States Marine Corps, located in Southern California. The range is a 459,000 acres...
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    The Dare County Bombing Range is a US Air Force managed and operated facility and is located in Dare County, North Carolina. The range serves as an air...
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    the US War Department decided it wanted the island back for use as a bombing range by the U.S. Army Air Corps in support of air bases then being constructed...
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    original airfield was built in 1942 as Matagorda Island General Bombing and Gunnery Range. It supported the USAAF Gulf Coast Training Center pilot training...
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    the largest part of the Bombing Range located in Oglala Lakota County. The Badlands Bombing Range (BBR) was a live fire range for over 30 years, and most...
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  • Dutson Bombing Range is a bombing range operated by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), located in Victoria. The facility is located near the town of...
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    Kahoʻolawe (redirect from Navy test range)
    II and the following decades, it was used as a training ground and bombing range by the Armed Forces of the United States. After decades of protests...
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    simply RAF Hell's Mouth, is a former Royal Air Force air gunnery and bombing range. It was initially redeveloped into a Relief Landing Ground, and then...
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    determination, minimized bombing range damage, and increased safety (when the bomb is deployed, it is inert). Concrete bombs are also used in testing...
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    original bombing range is now the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) which is used extensively by the Air Force with live fire targets on the range. Wendover...
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    altitude bombing. At present, the facility is used by the Armed Forces of the Philippines as a weapons testing ground, bombing and artillery range, ordinance...
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    southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what was the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range (renamed the White Sands Proving Ground just before the test)...
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    the Pacific Northwest began using the Yakima Anti-Aircraft Artillery Range for range firing and small unit tests; and in 1942 the first temporary buildings...
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    protests, held against the United States Navy's use of the island as a bombing range and testing-ground, leading to the Navy's departure in 2003. Today,...
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