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Radar Station B-71, Coastal Drive, Klamath, Del Norte County, CA
Summary
Significance: Radar Station B-71 is a rare surviving example of a World War II radar station established to provide coastal defense for the United States. Although the equipment was removed long ago and only two buildings (the Power and Operations buildings) remain, the radar station represents the U.S. development of radar technology in the first part of the twentieth century.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1065
Survey number: HAER CA-332
Building/structure dates: ca. 1942 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78000282
Tags
Date
1942
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
War Department
Kennelly, Arthur Edward
Heaviside, Oliver
Appleton, E V
Barnett, M A F
Tuve, Merle
Breit, Gregory
Page, Robert Morris
Watson-Watt, Robert
Tizzard, Henry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Signal Corps
Chaney, James E
Aircraft Warning Service
Birdsall, Dale
Chappell, Gordon
Chappell, Gordon
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Anderson, Karin, sponsor
Toothman, Stephanie, sponsor
O'Barr, James, sponsor
Redwood National and State Parks, sponsor
Pacific West Regional Office, sponsor
Location
california, 41.50099, -124.07049
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
