Salt Lake City Radar Bomb Scoring Site

{{For|Utah's Green River RBS site and for the 1963-70 Milford RBS Site in Beaver County{{r|J08UT0874}} railyards (Milford Railway Yard){{Cite report |title=Finding of No Department of Defense Actions Indicated: …Milford Radar Bomb Scoring Site |url=http://www.corpsfuds.org/reports/NDAI/J08UT0874ndai.pdf |publisher=CorpsFUDS.org |access-date=2012-07-08 }}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ([https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=38%C2%B0+59.38%E2%80%99+-110%C2%B0+14.65%E2%80%99&daddr=38%C2%B0+24.44+-113%C2%B0+00.13%E2%80%99&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sll=38.407333,-113.002167&sspn=0.010644,0.026071&geocode=FWPvUgIduc5t-Q%3BFaUMSgIdSblD-Q&t=h&mra=ls&z=9 (Google Maps shows 2 locations)]

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The Salt Lake City Radar Bomb Scoring Site{{r|J08UT092700}} ("Salt Lake Bomb Plot")[http://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=AssignmentExt&ID=212804] is a Formerly Used Defense Site that was an automatic tracking (AUTOTRACK) radar station during the Cold War. Operated by Detachment 6 of the 11th Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron{{r|J08UT092700}} which had relocated from the Phoenix semi-mobile RBS station in December 1964,{{Cite web |format=biography |title=title tbd |quote=About May 1954 he was assigned to a semi-mobile Radar Bomb Scoring/Electronic Counter Measures Unit (SAC) at Phoenix, Arizona – in December 1954 that unit relocated to the municipal airport at Salt Lake City, Utah. |url=http://howertonheritage.com/HowertonHeritageSummer2001.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513114634/http://howertonheritage.com/HowertonHeritageSummer2001.htm |archive-date=2008-05-13 }} the military installation evaluated practice bomb runs by Strategic Air Command simulating attacks on the metropolitan area (e.g., during the 1955 Bombing and Navigation Competition){{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19550502&id=XPpXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rPYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4206,164978|title=Spokane Daily Chronicle - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}} and on the Hill Air Force Range{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w55U-YtutS8C&q=%22salt+lake%22+%22bomb+scoring%22&pg=PA249|title=Great Salt Lake|first=J. Wallace|last=Gwynn|date=4 October 1980|publisher=Utah Geological Survey|via=Google Books|isbn=9781557910837}} which had been the Salt Lake City Army Air Base Gunnery Range in World War II.

Originally part of the Salt Lake City Army Airfield, the {{Convert|0.34|acre|abbr=on}} site at "Salt Lake City Municipal Airport No. 1 (now Salt Lake City International Airport), on the corner of Second Street and E Street"{{r|J08UT092700}} was leased by the USAF from the Salt Lake City Corporation for the site. Equipment included tracking radar ("radar bomb scoring device") which mistakenly resulted in "a dropping of practice" bomb on one occasion,{{cite web |title=Subscription |location=Salt Lake City |date=17 March 1950 |page=24 |publisher=Salt Lake Tribune |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/salt-lake-tribune/1950-03-17/page-24 |access-date=7 June 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=NewspaperArchive.com |language=en}} and the 1960 Salt Lake B-58 crash occurred while on a bomb run tracked from the site.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19600425&id=JpseAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kMwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2763,4937058] Det 6 also provided technicians for the first SAC RBS Express train created in 1961 from "existing U.S. Army stock" at the nearby Ogden General Depot{{Cite news |date=28 December 1961 |title=Bombers To Descend Near Alto Series of Mock Air Attacks |url=http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth150424/m1/7/zoom/ |newspaper=The Cherokeean |location=Rusk, Texas |access-date=2012-07-09 |quote=At the target area near Greenville, radar bomb scoring equipment mounted on an Air Force train}} (the Tooele Army Depot's{{Cite web |date=5 August 2011 |title=The Tooele Army Depot |url=http://utahrails.net/utahrails/tooele-army-depot.php |publisher=UtahRails.net |access-date=2012-07-08}} "Army Rail Shops" serviced the train).{{Cite news |last=Livingood |first=Jay |title=Rail Bomb 'Scorer' Gets Overhaul At Hill Air Base |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kqpSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1n8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3280,6378078&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en |newspaper=The Deseret News |access-date=2012-07-08}}

Designated FUDS J08UT092700,{{When|date=July 2013}} in May 2005 the site was part of the {{Convert|135|acre|abbr=on}} Utah Air National Guard installation.{{r|J08UT092700}}