| 词条 | Arlington Heights Air Force Station |
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| name = Arlington Heights Air Force Station | ensign = | ensign_size = | native_name = | type = General surveillance radar station | image = | caption = | image_map = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = Illinois | pushpin_relief = | pushpin_map_caption = | coordinates = {{coord|42|03|51.5|N|87|59|44|W|display=it}} | coordinates_footnotes = [1] | partof = Aerospace Defense Command | location = Illinois | nearest_town = | country = | ownership = | operator = | open_to_public = | site_area = | built = Gap Filler radar sites (AN/FPS-18)[1] | used = | builder = | materials = | height = | length = | fate = | condition = | battles = | events = | garrison = 755th Radar Squadron | occupants = | website = | footnotes = }}Arlington Heights Air Force Station was a USAF general surveillance radar station {{convert|1.8|mi|km}} south-southwest of Arlington Heights, Illinois. It was active from 1960-1969.[3] Arlington FieldArlington Field opened in 1942 as an auxiliary airfield for the nearby NRAB Chicago. It had a World War II prisoner-of-war camp,[1] opened on May 4, 1945, with 75 German Prisoner of Wars. Project Nike Integrated Fire Control Site C-80 of the 45th Antiaircraft Brigade opened at Arlington Field in 1955,[7] and in January 1960, the 755th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron transferred to the field from Williams Bay Air Force Station at Elkhorn, Wisconsin,[8] while the co-located Arlington Heights Army Installation was being built for a Project Nike Army Air Defense Command Post. Air Force StationArlington Heights Air Force Station was activated on 1 April 1960, when Williams Bay AFS was redesignated from P-31 to gap-filler RP-31F. In 1962, the station began providing Semi-Automatic Ground Environment radar tracks to Data Center DC-02 at Truax Field, Wisconsin, for the Chicago Air Defense Sector's ground-controlled interception.[7] One of the two Arlington Heights Air Force Station's General Electric AN/FPS-6 Radars height finders was upgraded{{When|date=April 2012}} to the -6B variant and then the -90 variant,[10] and the station's Bendix AN/FPS-20 Radar was also upgraded to an AN/FPS-67. The 755th inactivated on September 30, 1969, and Project Concise ended the site's Nike operations in 1974--{{Convert|52|acres|ha|abbr=on}} transferred to the city parks district.[2] A golf course was built in May 1979near the nuclear bunker.[12] The Arlington Lakes Golf Club has {{Convert|90|acre|ha|abbr=on}} with 14 lakes.[3]In August 1994, three military units were still stationed at the Arlington Heights military site.[4] References1. ^{{Cite report |last=Meyerhoff |first=Keith |date=September 14, 1967 |title=Nike Site Has History as 'Embattled' Land |url=http://www.radomes.org/museum/documents/ArlingtonHeightsAIILHistory.html |location=Prospect High School |accessdate=2012-04-01}} [5][6][7][8][9]2. ^1 2 {{Cite web |title=Arlington Heights Facts at a Glance |url=http://www.arlingtoncards.com/facts/ |format=chronology|publisher=Arlingtoncards.com |accessdate=2012-04-02 }} 3. ^ 4. ^1 {{Cite report |last=Stimely |first=Margot |date=February 1996 |title=Nike Base |url=http://www.radomes.org/museum/documents/ArlingtonHeightsAIILHistory.html |publisher=Arlington Heights Historical Society |accessdate=2012-04-01}} 5. ^{{Cite web |title=Arlington Heights Facts at a Glance |url=http://www.arlingtoncards.com/facts/ |format=chronology|publisher=Arlingtoncards.com |accessdate=2012-04-02 }} 6. ^1 {{Cite web |date=October 29, 2006 |title=Corrections to The Second Edition of Rings of Supersonic Steel |url=http://ed-thelen.org/CorrectRSSOct06.html |publisher=Ed-Thelen.org |accessdate=2012-04-01}} 7. ^1 compiled by {{Cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Mildred W |date=31 December 1980 |origyear=February 1973 original by Cornett, Lloyd H. Jr |title=A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980 |url=http://www.usafpatches.com/pubs/handbookofadcorg.pdf |publisher=Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center |location=Peterson Air Force Base |accessdate=2012-03-26 |quote=669th Radar Sq (SAGE): assigned 1 Jan 51 at Ft. MacArthur, CA,…moved to Santa Rosa Island, CA 11 Feb 52;…moved to Lompoc AFS, CA 1 Apr 64}} 8. ^1 {{Cite report |last1=Winkler |first1=David F |last2=Webster |first2=Julie L |date=June 1997 |title=Searching the Skies: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program |url=http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA331231 |publisher=U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories |accessdate=2012-03-26}} 9. ^1 2 {{Cite web |title=Information for Arlington Heights AI, IL |url=http://www.radomes.org/cgi-bin/museum/acwinfo2x.cgi?site=%22Arlington+Heights+AI,+IL%22&key=ArlingtonHeightsAIIL&pic=ArlingtonHeightsAIIL&doc=ArlingtonHeightsAIIL |format=Radomes.org webpage |publisher= The Air Defense Radar Veterans' Association |accessdate=2012-04-01}} }}{{Arlington Heights, Illinois}}{{Aerospace Defense Command|state=collapsed}} 7 : Installations of the United States Air Force in Illinois|Aerospace Defense Command military installations|Arlington Heights, Illinois|Radar stations of the United States Air Force|SAGE sites|Military installations established in 1960|Military installations closed in 1969 |
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