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The Camp Pedricktown Air Defense Base was a Cold War Missile Master installation with a in a nuclear bunker and associated search, height finder, and identification friend or foe radars. The station's radars were subsequently replaced with radars at Gibbsboro Air Force Station away.[1] The obsolete 1957-vintage vacuum tube computer was removed after command of the defense area was transferred to the Highlands Air Force Station command post near New York City which controlled the combined New York-Philadelphia Defense Area.

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  • Camp Pedricktown radar station
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  • The Camp Pedricktown Air Defense Base was a Cold War Missile Master installation with a in a nuclear bunker and associated search, height finder, and identification friend or foe radars. The station's radars were subsequently replaced with radars at Gibbsboro Air Force Station away.[1] The obsolete 1957-vintage vacuum tube computer was removed after command of the defense area was transferred to the Highlands Air Force Station command post near New York City which controlled the combined New York-Philadelphia Defense Area.
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Category
  • military command and control facility
established type
  • Construction
  • closed
  • AADCP
Country
  • United States
Region
lat d
  • 39(xsd:double)
Width
  • 30(xsd:integer)
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  • 1(xsd:integer)
parent type
  • Command
country flag
  • 1(xsd:integer)
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  • Site #
Image caption
  • The AADCP at Camp Pedricktown controlled fire units in the Philadelphia Defense Area.
Part
long d
  • 75(xsd:double)
Established
  • 1959(xsd:integer)
  • September 1966
Code
  • PH-64DC
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State
  • New Jersey
Parent
long EW
  • W
City
  • Wilmington, Delaware
lat NS
  • N
city type
  • Nearest city
Location
  • AADCP
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  • The Camp Pedricktown Air Defense Base was a Cold War Missile Master installation with a in a nuclear bunker and associated search, height finder, and identification friend or foe radars. The station's radars were subsequently replaced with radars at Gibbsboro Air Force Station away.[1] The obsolete 1957-vintage vacuum tube computer was removed after command of the defense area was transferred to the Highlands Air Force Station command post near New York City which controlled the combined New York-Philadelphia Defense Area. The site is used by the Sievers Sandberg Reserve Center which occupies ,[2] and the station with intact bunker was designated an historic site in 1998 by the Salem Historic Preservation Office.[3] The 2000 environmental report for the station is the Recordation of the Nike Missile Master Complex Pedrickstown U.S. Army Reserve Support Facility. Construction in New Jersey under the Philadelphia District of the Army Corps of Engineers transferred to the New York District on July 1, 1960.
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