White Sands Missile Range

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White Sands Missile Range logo.jpgWhite Sands Missile Range (1960)[1]
New Mexico Joint Guided Missile Test Range (1947)
White Sands Proving Ground (1945)
Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range (1941)[2]:{{{3}}}
Part of United States Army Test and Evaluation Command
Located in the San Andreas Mountains, the Oscura Mountains, the San Augustin Mountains, the Tularosa Basin, and the Chupadera Mesa in New Mexico
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Most of the northern Tularosa basin (blue) is used for the WSMR (area within dashed perimeter), which encloses numerous areas that are not military land (e.g., the NPS's White Sands National Monument), as well as USAF facilities.
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WSMR location
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Site information
Controlled by United States Army
Website www.wsmr.army.mil
Site history
Built 1948-07-09 cantonment completed[3]:{{{3}}}
1957-02: Launch Complex 37 completed
Built by Ordnance Corps[3]:{{{3}}}
Garrison information
Current
commander
BG Timothy Coffin (2014–)[4]
Past
commanders
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  • BG John G. Ferrari (2011–12)
  • BG David L. Mann (2008–09)
  • BG Richard L. McCabe (2007–08)[5]
  • MG Gwen Bingham (2012–)[6]

White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army rocket range of almost 3,200 sq mi (8,300 km2) in parts of five counties in southern New Mexico. The largest military installation in the United States, WSMR and the 600,000-acre (2,400 km2) McGregor Range Complex at Fort Bliss to the south (southeast Tularosa Basin and on Otero Mesa[7]) are contiguous areas for military testing.[8]:{{{3}}} It includes the site used for the first atomic bomb test, codenamed Trinity.

The site of the 1945 Trinity explosion became part of WSMR.

National Historic Landmarks

Designated historic sites on WSMR land include:

Current operations

The White Sands Test Center headquartered at the WSMR "Post Area" has branches for Manned Tactical Systems & Electromagnetic Radiation and conducts missile testing and range recovery operations.[15] Other operations on WSMR land include:

Chronology

  • 1930: Robert Goddard began rocket testing in New Mexico.
  • 1941-04-13: The US' WWII preparations established[9]:{{{3}}} the Army Air Base, Alamogordo:[19] 1942 Biggs Army Airfield construction began near El Paso (1947 Biggs AFB, 1973 Biggs AAF)--the region's nearby Deming AAFld (14 Dec 1946), Ft Sumner AAFld (6 Mar), and South Aux Fid #1 (4 Apr) transferred to "Army Div Engrs" in 1946.[20]:{{{3}}}
  • 1940s: When the range was formed, ranchers' land was leased and, in the 1970s, taken permanently to expand the area available for testing.[21]

USAAF ranges

White Sands Proving Ground

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New Mexico Joint Guided Missile Test Range

White Sands Missile Range

External media
Images
image icon 1945 WSPG
Video
video icon 196x Big Picture: Tularosa Frontier
video icon Short Notice Annuall Practice (minute 16:50)
video icon Countdown at White Sands

See also

  • McDonald Ranch House, location of the final assembly of the first tested nuclear weapon in the world

References

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  6. "White Sands Commander Gwen Bingham promoted to major general", Steve Ramirez, lcsun-news.com, 20 March 2013
  7. http://fronteralandalliance.org/castner/media/ICRMP.pdf "This report inventoried and evaluated 150 Cold War era properties constructed between 1956 and 1961 at Orogrande Range Doña Ana Range, McGregor Range, North McGregor Range, and Meyer Target Range in New Mexico."
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  17. http://www.wsmr.army.mil/pao/FactSheets/hfame.htm
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  29. http://www.cecer.army.mil/techreports/ERDC-CERL_SR-06-53/ERDC-CERL_SR-06-53.pdf
  30. Integration of the Holloman-White Sands Ranges, 1947-1952 (2nd Edition, 1957)
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  44. (5 June 1963) Kennedy visit leaves lasting impression at WSMR
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