Editing Eleuthera (section)

== U.S. military bases ==
=== NAVFAC Eleuthera ===
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The United States Naval Facility (NAVFAC) Eleuthera, Bahamas was a shore terminus and processing facility for the [[SOSUS|Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS)]] operated by the U.S. Navy to detect submarines. In 1951 a six-element test array had been placed offshore to demonstrate the system's capability to detect submarines. After successful tests with a U.S. submarine, a functional forty-element array was installed in 1952 as one of a total of nine Atlantic systems ordered.<ref name=ICAA>{{cite web |title=Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS) History 1950 - 2010 |publisher=IUSS/CAESAR Alumni Association |url=http://www.iusscaa.org/history.htm |access-date=11 February 2020}}</ref> Though it was the first array to be installed, it was last to get the operational shore terminal under Navy command when NAVFAC Eleuthera was commissioned on 1 September 1957. The facility had a complement of 150 officers and enlisted men, a resident Western Electric engineer, some nineteen Pan-American Airway and RCA contractors, and 45 Bahamian employees who supported the facility. NAVFAC Eleuthera was decommissioned on 31 March 1980 after 23 years of service.<ref name="Project"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Commander Undersea Surveillance |title=Naval Facility Eleuthera September 1957 - March 1980 |publisher=U.S. Navy |url=https://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/cus/Pages/NAVFAC_Eleuthera.aspx |access-date=16 February 2020 |archive-date=16 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216150111/https://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/cus/Pages/NAVFAC_Eleuthera.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was located near Governor's Harbour Airport.<ref name="Project">{{cite web |url=http://www.projecteleuthera.org/ruins |title=Ruins and Ghost Towns |publisher=Project Eleuthera |access-date=21 February 2017}}</ref> The first U.S. Navy women to be assigned to a SOSUS facility were the eleven assigned to NAVFAC Eleuthera in 1972. Seventeen years earlier the Canadian contingent of the joint U.S./Canadian Forces SOSUS facility, [[CFS Shelburne|Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Shelburne]], included five women of the [[Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service]].<ref name=ICAA/><ref>{{cite web |title=Four of the "Original Five" WRENs at Shelburne 1955 |publisher=IUSS/Caesar Alumni Association |url=http://pub10.bravenet.com/photocenter/album.php?usernum=774301397#bn-photocenter-1-1-774301397/25101/1/169516/ |access-date=26 March 2020}}</ref>

Adjacent to the NAVFAC was the original site of the first experimental array and electronics, operated by two Western Electric engineers and a few military personnel, which continued in service as an avenue for experiments.<ref name="Project"/>

=== Eleuthera AAFB ===
The U.S. Air Force Eastern Test Range (ETR) Range Tracking Station No. 4 was sited at Eleuthera AAFB (ELU AUXILIARY AIR FORCE BASE), supported by contractor employees of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and Pan American Airways (PAA) in the 1960s and 1970s. This was used by the [[MISTRAM]] system.<ref name="Project"/>