Gelsenkirchen was a target of strategic bombing during World War II, particularly during the 1943 Battle of the Ruhr and the Oil Campaign of World War II . Three quarters of Gelsenkirchen was destroyed and many above-ground air-raid shelters such as near the town hall in Buer are in nearly original form.
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In 1980 the Air Force built a height-finder tower at Jedburg, SC, an FAA site located twenty-two miles northwest of Charleston and closed North Charleston AFB . The North Charleston GATR ( Ground Air Transmitter Receiver ) site ( R-113 ), operated by the 1968th Communications Squadron remained open temporarily after the parent radar sited closed.
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NORAD Division Warning Networks ) provided the radar netting communications for each DC and eventually also allowed transfer of command guidance to autopilots of TDDL-equipped interceptors for vectoring to targets via the "'Ground to Air Data Link Subsystem "'and the Ground Air Transmit Receive ( GATR ) network of radio sites for " HF / VHF / UHF voice & TDDL " each generally co-located at a CDTS site.
