All,
I was recently contacted by a man named Jeffery Brethauer who passed along photo's taken by his father during WW2 at the Warren Grove Bombing Range. He believes his father may have been there for a short time where he worked on the special "pop bottle" project depicted in the below photo's. I assume his father called it "pop bottle" because it looks like a soda bottle. In the photo's you can see at least two of the buildings that were there at the time.
While his father was there he was involved in fighting a large forest fire and he makes note of where the mention of that is in the article.
Jeffrey is uncertain if the "pop bottle" is related to the next photo's but there is a possibility. Here is a portion of the text from Jeffrey Brethauer about his father.
I was looking at my dad’s service records, and in July 1945 he was transferred to Washington, D.C. for a special 90-day assignment at the Bureau of Ordinance. The description of the project was “Experimental Unit, Bureau of Standards, in connection with the assemblies of AA Radar Glider target MK 16”. Whether this was in reference to what he did at Warren Grove, I have no idea. My dad was trained as an aviation radio technician in the Navy, so that kind of fits.
I will post much larger photo's of the first four as soon as I can get a chance.
Guy
I was recently contacted by a man named Jeffery Brethauer who passed along photo's taken by his father during WW2 at the Warren Grove Bombing Range. He believes his father may have been there for a short time where he worked on the special "pop bottle" project depicted in the below photo's. I assume his father called it "pop bottle" because it looks like a soda bottle. In the photo's you can see at least two of the buildings that were there at the time.
While his father was there he was involved in fighting a large forest fire and he makes note of where the mention of that is in the article.
Jeffrey is uncertain if the "pop bottle" is related to the next photo's but there is a possibility. Here is a portion of the text from Jeffrey Brethauer about his father.
I was looking at my dad’s service records, and in July 1945 he was transferred to Washington, D.C. for a special 90-day assignment at the Bureau of Ordinance. The description of the project was “Experimental Unit, Bureau of Standards, in connection with the assemblies of AA Radar Glider target MK 16”. Whether this was in reference to what he did at Warren Grove, I have no idea. My dad was trained as an aviation radio technician in the Navy, so that kind of fits.
I will post much larger photo's of the first four as soon as I can get a chance.
Guy
