Army Discontinued Ground Based Artillery

In November 1957, the Army closed the Camp Hero portion of the military reservation as Soviet long-distance bombers could fly well above ground-based artillery.

AN/FPS-20 Installed

In the spring of 1957 Montauk AFS received one of the first AN/FPS-20 units along with a pair of AN/FPS-6 height-finder radars.

Montauk Air Force Station

On 1 December 1953 the site designation was changed to LP-45 and the Air Force facilities were renamed Montauk Air Force Station

AN/TPS-1B Long-Range Search Radar Installed

Air Defense Command placed an AN/TPS-1B long-range search radar at Camp Hero in June 1948 and designed the site as Montauk Point, L-10. The Montauk site fed into a primitive control center established at Roslyn AFS, New York.

Camp Hero

The US Army upgraded Fort Hero, and renamed it Camp Hero in 1942.