Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Reeves AN/TPQ-2 Close Air Support System" in English language version.
Perhaps the first cruise missile to fly from the sea range over California terrain was a LOON which transited the Santa Barbara Peninsula about 1947. …turned slowly north over Santa Cruz Island where the escort fighter exhausted its ammunition in a futile effort to shoot it down … [Dalby] was flying Loon simulation missions for Dr. Wagner who was then modifying the SCR-584 radar. It used a Reeves Instrument Co. plotting board to yield course changes, a warhead arming signal and a dump command to the Loon. …the story is best told by…LTGEN Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret)'s book "First to Fight" … Dalby explained that he had two aircraft flying at 18,000 feet and described how the system worked to drop a dummy bomb within 150 yards of a target to be selected by me! …I selected a nearby land feature and we waited. On the first run two inert bombs landed within 50 yards of the target. Someone else picked another target and the next run produced direct hits! … This was the first of many demonstrations… By July 1951 the team was ready to go to war.
