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From: [email protected]
Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:01:19 -0500 Subject: Santini My wife and I lived in Santini in 1954. When we moved in the one bedroom apartment, the windows were so coated with dirt from WWII, that I used a razor blade to scrape it off. The enclosed picture is my wife at our door before going to the base hospital for our first child. In those days the babies were kept in a nursery and brought to the mother at feeding time. What impressed my wife was that our baby was put in a small bed at the foot of her bed and from the first minute told to take care of your baby. Jim Herrold * reprinted here with Mr. Herrold's permission |
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Map above courtesy of Vanderbilt Cup Races.
Santini Lashup Radar Station 1950
From 1950-1951 Mitchel Field operated a radar station out of Santini Sub-base.
Latitude: ~40-42-54 N, Longitude: ~073-35-09 W Call Sign(s): Seascout, Abound
Courtesy Radomes.org
Latitude: ~40-42-54 N, Longitude: ~073-35-09 W Call Sign(s): Seascout, Abound
Courtesy Radomes.org
History of Santini Radar Sation, Mitchel Field, LI, NY
This Lashup site was activated in May 1950. The site used an AN/CPS-5 medium-range search radar and an AN/TPS-10 height-finder radar. It was deactivated in October 1951.
Photos below appeared in LIFE Magazine.
The Lashup Radar Network was a United States Cold War radar netting system for air defense surveillance which followed the post-World War II "five-station radar net" and preceded the "high Priority Permanent System".
On March 27, 1948, General Spaatz, concerned about the vulnerability of the Atomic Energy Commission plant at Hanford, Washington, ordered the recently placed ADC radars at Arlington, Spokane, Neah Bay, and Hanford, Washington, and at Portland, Oregon, to begin operating on a 24 hour-a-day basis. Due to insufficient personnel and materiel resources, round-the-clock operations in the northwest proved beyond ADCs capability. Despite these problems, ADC was ordered to take AN/CPS-5 and AN/TPS-1B/1D radar sets out of storage for operation in the northeast and in Albuquerque, New Mexico. By August, radars had been placed at Twin Lights and Palermo in New Jersey, and at Montauk, New York. In September 1948, the Air Force ordered thirteen additional World War II radars to be placed in operation over an area stretching from Maine to Michigan. Along with the previously sited radars, these sets became incorporated into what became known as the Lashup system. Lashup was an appropriate name for the system as World War II vintage radar antennas were literally lashed to the top of wooden platforms. In addition to the temporary antenna towers, Quonset huts and short-term wooden structures were built to house the equipment and radar operators.
The 26th Air Division was activated at Mitchel Field NY on November 16, and was transferred to ADC (Air Defense Command) on April 1, 1949.
This Lashup site was activated in May 1950. The site used an AN/CPS-5 medium-range search radar and an AN/TPS-10 height-finder radar. It was deactivated in October 1951.
Photos below appeared in LIFE Magazine.
The Lashup Radar Network was a United States Cold War radar netting system for air defense surveillance which followed the post-World War II "five-station radar net" and preceded the "high Priority Permanent System".
On March 27, 1948, General Spaatz, concerned about the vulnerability of the Atomic Energy Commission plant at Hanford, Washington, ordered the recently placed ADC radars at Arlington, Spokane, Neah Bay, and Hanford, Washington, and at Portland, Oregon, to begin operating on a 24 hour-a-day basis. Due to insufficient personnel and materiel resources, round-the-clock operations in the northwest proved beyond ADCs capability. Despite these problems, ADC was ordered to take AN/CPS-5 and AN/TPS-1B/1D radar sets out of storage for operation in the northeast and in Albuquerque, New Mexico. By August, radars had been placed at Twin Lights and Palermo in New Jersey, and at Montauk, New York. In September 1948, the Air Force ordered thirteen additional World War II radars to be placed in operation over an area stretching from Maine to Michigan. Along with the previously sited radars, these sets became incorporated into what became known as the Lashup system. Lashup was an appropriate name for the system as World War II vintage radar antennas were literally lashed to the top of wooden platforms. In addition to the temporary antenna towers, Quonset huts and short-term wooden structures were built to house the equipment and radar operators.
The 26th Air Division was activated at Mitchel Field NY on November 16, and was transferred to ADC (Air Defense Command) on April 1, 1949.
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Possibly a WWII vintage Santini wood frame building. If it is then there are only two wood frame buildings left in all of the Mitchel area. Only one still exists on Mitchel proper. T142 on Mitchel was in very bad shape. T142 was destroyed. T154 is the remaining "T" building on Mitchel proper.
Photo and text by Vince Fitzgerald |
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Photos above during demolition of 2 story barracks, mid 1970s. Photos by Paul Martin
