Montauk: Camp Hero, the Giant Radar, and the Story of Experiments Buried on Long Island
At the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, Camp Hero is now a coastal state park. A massive radar tower still rises above the woods and old roads. Its AN/FPS-35 reflector is about 126 feet long, 38 feet high, and weighs roughly 40 tons. It is not a movie prop. The radar entered service in late 1960. Before the park existed, this land was a World War II coastal-defense base and later a United States Air Force radar…
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At the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, Camp Hero is now a coastal state park. A massive radar tower still rises above the woods and old roads. Its AN/FPS-35 reflector is about 126 feet long, 38 feet high, and weighs roughly 40 tons. It is not a movie prop. The radar entered service in late 1960. Before the park existed, this land was a World War II coastal-defense base and later a United States Air Force radar station during the Cold War.
At the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, Camp Hero is now a coastal state park. A massive radar tower still rises above the woods and old roads. Its AN/FPS-35 reflector is about 126 feet long, 38 feet high, and weighs roughly 40 tons. It is not a movie prop. The radar entered service in late 1960. Before the park existed, this land was a World War II coastal-defense base and later a United States Air Force radar…
At the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, Camp Hero is now a coastal state park. A massive radar tower still rises above the woods and old roads. Its AN/FPS-35 reflector is about 126 feet long, 38 feet high, and weighs roughly 40 tons. It is not a movie prop. The radar entered service in late 1960. Before the park existed, this land was a World War II coastal-defense base and later a United States Air Force radar…
At the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, Camp Hero is now a coastal state park. A massive radar tower still rises above the woods and old roads. Its AN/FPS-35 reflector is about 126 feet long, 38 feet high, and weighs roughly 40 tons. It is not a movie prop. The radar entered service in late 1960. Before the park existed, this land was a World War II coastal-defense base and later a United States Air Force radar…
At the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, Camp Hero is now a coastal state park. A massive radar tower still rises above the woods and old roads. Its AN/FPS-35 reflector is about 126 feet long, 38 feet high, and weighs roughly 40 tons. It is not a movie prop. The radar entered service in late 1960. Before the park existed, this land was a World War II coastal-defense base and later a United States Air Force radar…