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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Eglin Air Force Base (redirect from Valparaiso Bombing Range)
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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Edwards Air Force Base (redirect from Muroc Bombing Range)
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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Navy Dare (redirect from Dare County Bombing Range)
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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Fort De Soto Park (section Bombing range)
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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Wendover Air Force Base (redirect from Wendover Air Force Range)
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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Colonel Ernesto Rabina Air Base (redirect from Crow Valley Bombing Range)
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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Trinity (nuclear test) (redirect from First atomic bomb)
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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Yakima Training Center (redirect from Yakima Bombing Range)
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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