European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Imm 5r, Tes Sac tue painted forget train site on a Sung waiting for its next Mission cars House All administrative Supply and function. Bec tronic equipment pinpoints bomb fall a ii Rolaf. Airmen Board the train for a shift of target scoring. V Al t t sgt John c Becht Usan go in the night skies somewhere Over the United states the giant bomber made a gently banking  millions of americans slept 7, unaware of the imminent attack thay slept to safety for the bomber a strategic air Corad b52 Stratfor to on a routine training Mission like missions that have theoretically de numerous Industrial and military within the United states. Earlly populated metropolitan , Little Rock _ and Louisville have served As Sim targets and have been destroyed ids of times Over to past years. Tonight there were no familiar Pat of a. Major metropolitan area on navigator s radar Cope. The bomber seeking a virtual pinpoint representing enemy Mosshe base in unfamiliar nth rental i Takaht Sefc missiles which teasingly More Ftp Praht As the Means to Seltor nuclear War on enemy territory inst Franj trajectory Tif Plau iwo target  a guidance system to aet Ixta and destroy Bidden targets. A the reason air Force planners1that a mix of in lined bombers and is pieces Saroj t or Sac to Bow employing radar  mounted pc i and periodically shuttling v?"r.ij june 16, 1962 them to unfamiliar new locations to Mea sure the accuracy of simulated attacks by bomber Crews. When Sac bombers electronically bomb a target radar bomb scoring de vices in the target area automatically re Cord the. Electronic impulse and determine where the bomb would have hit shortly before Midnight the res express train was attacked by a six Jet b4? medium bomber. It was,.followed into the target by Many other b4?s, and then u a giant b52 turned into the air corridor leading to the train and began its approach to the target the b52. From Bergstrom air Force base Tex carried foolproof and potent radar and electronic countermeasures equipment. It was on a Long planned Mission which would be As realistic As if the bomber were engaged i an actual Mission against an enemy target in route to the target a1c Kenneth  Johnson gunner on the b52. Practice gun Nery As if enemy fighter planes were at. Lacking the bomber to keep it from reach tog its target cameras recorded Bis accuracy and Seffl and after the Mission this a film would show if he was successful in As the bomber streaked toward its tar Louis n. Pinsonneault was on console in the operations car express parked on a railway g. /. There he  Patoso Neault announced As,the7s2,appeared As a tiny bup on his Sci Leesi technicians at the site began to track the aircraft on their radar scope and plotting Board. Immediately electronic equipment aboard the train began jamming the bomber s radar an important part of the train ing Mission. At the same time the air Craft s electronic warfare officer 1st a Gerald g. Wertis began using his counter measures apparatus to offset this jamming once to the Low level pattern about 35 Miles from the target  transmission became More frequent As the navigator relayed the bomber s position and Speed to the train. An electronic signal immediately started a pen Assembly on the plot Ting Board tracing the bomber s course. During this approach the bomber was being followed by radar. Antennae on top of the train were locked onto the strato fortress. The target to be bombed was not particular geographical location or even a building but was a Mere pinpoint on a map. At the plotting Board in the res express.a2c-John h. Kennedy was ready to Moni Tor the bomb  away from target the bomber s Copilot. 1st it James a. Partia started the countdown for bombs away. Bombs away to 20 seconds. 19 there was a moment of suspense As the bomber approached its target and the bomb Bay doors opened As if this were an actual wartime  As the doors opened a computer in the aircraft s radar system began sending a humming tone sound heard both to Fth train and in the bomber. And Over the intercom the aircraft com Mander Mai Clifton a. Pritchen gave the bombs away signal Bombardier maj Kenneth a. Owens triggered the bomb release mechanism. The tone signal ceased and the pen lifted from the plotting  b52 Crew had completed another bomb training  aboard the train immediate in began computing the electronically re corded position of the bomber s flight path tend exact position of the bomb drop. They will determine exactly where the simulated bomb would have hit this simulated bomb Impact Point is relayed to the plane Crew within seconds of the simulated release. Upon return to Bergstrom fab. The b5tcrew would evaluate and Analyse its mis Sion and determine exactly How effective it would have been of this flight had Keenan actual combat Mission. Advantages of having bomb scoring units on rails offers the Opportunity for mobility a variety of terrain and to Fame car targets and routes Sac has three of these radar bomb scoring trains operating around the Coon try. Each moves to a new geographical location every 45-Daysv--- the Trato the composed of at 99-Fooc Hospital cars used for command adm tals Tratton maintenance Supply Power another functions three 50-foot flatbed with vans housing rear and eco  and a 50-foot Boxcar used As a storage and vehicle car. S-jj1 j i a Gutt in a " so a  -l.? a f t the stars and stripes ii