Air Defense Command
United States defense plans in 1945 and November 1946 "recommended moving ADC Headquarters from Mitchel Field to a more central location…in a protected command center … designed to withstand attack by all foreseeable weapons" (e.g., "German A-4 type" missiles). On November 10, 1950, Generals Vandenberg and Twining notified General Whitehead that "the Air Force had approved activation of a separate Air Defense Command with headquarters on Ent". The ADC Major Command was re-established on January 1, 1951, with the Mitchel Field ADC headquarters moving to Ent on 8 January 1951. Mitchel's Army Anti-Aircraft Artillery Command headquarters moved to one room at Ent in January 1951 and in February the commander's staff began using the downtown Antlers Hotel until August 1953. Ent's building used for the 1951 air defense center was replaced in May 1954 with a "much improved 15,000-square-foot concrete block" Combat Operations Center (COC) (by 1961, an image of the COC's "Plexiglass plotting board" was transmitted to SAC's command post.)
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