Hawes Auxiliary Field Tower Site
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| Hawes Auxiliary Field is a former World War II training field. The land at the southern half of the airfield remains in military hands, largely because of contamination from diesel fuel used for the generators at the site, and other as-yet-to-becleaned-up remains. Equipment including a 1,226 foot tall tower at the site was used for low frequency communications by the Strategic Air Command, from the 1960's to the 1980's (the site was part of the military's SLFCS and GWEN emergency communication networks). When the tower was torn down in the mid 1980's, the lower half of the tower fell sideways and the top half of the tower collapsed onto the bunker. Until recently, portions of the top half of the tower could be seen protruding from the two foot thick concrete roof of the bunker. The remains of the tower have been salvaged. A two-story underground bunker at the former base of the antenna lies open and exposed to scavengers. Inside are the remnants of three twelve foot long diesel generators (though the facility was on the commercial power grid it also had significant electrical generation capabilities), copper-lined equipment rooms, and administrative offices. Next to the earth-covered bunker are several large underground fuel tanks, the remains of support structures (including the guard house platform), many guy wire footings from the tower, and the overgrown runway. |
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W of Barstow
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| Abandoned site, unfenced, and covered in graffiti. Located one mile south of Route 58, accessed by a dirt road off the highway, two miles west of Harper Lake Road. |
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Former Defense Site, Military
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