"Auto trips were made to the regions north and south of Grants and Thoreau, the Tularosa
basin, the Jornada del Muerto Valley, and the desert training area. Aerial surveys were made at low altitude by one or another of the group, K. Bainbridge, R. W. Henderson, Maj. W. A. Stevens, and Maj. P. deSilva, over the same areas. The choices finally narrowed to either the Jornada del Muerto region in the northwest corner of the Alamogordo Bombing Range or the desert training area north of Rice, CA." Kenneth T. Bainbridge, "Trinity" (LA-6300-H), May 1976 (reprinting a 1947 report).
