Norfolk Naval Base (1983: Doomsday)

Norfolk Naval Base was a major United States Military Base prior to Doomsday, serving much of the US Atlantic Fleet. On Doomsday it was subjected to heavy Nuclear Strikes from the Soviet Union, with reports of as many as a dozen ICBMs striking the famous port. As of March 2011, no official visits have been made to the area.

Doomsday
A few minutes after NORAD confirmed the Soviet Union's lanuch of Nuclear Missiles, Washington began sending warning messages throughout the US. One of the first recipents of this message was the leadership at Norfolk. The next few minutes were very chacotic as several ships attempted to escape the Harbour, and attempted evacution of civilians on Base occured.Several ships did manage to escape the Harbour proper, with some later joining the APA in Australia as part of the gathering order, but must were beached as the EMPs began.Approximatly 30 Minutes after the initial warning was recieved, a 10 MT Airburst occured over nearby Virginia Beach.The EMP from the blast stopped most of the operations at Norfolk, leaving the remaining people there to their deaths.Within seconds,several more warheads began denotating over the Base and the area around it. Much of the area was flattened to radioactive ash.To this day it is not known how many bombs were dropped on Norfolk.

Speculations
Before the Bombs began dropping, several Ships, Helicopters, and Planes managed to escape. With these surviors came reports of the possibility that many more Military units survived, and are unaccounted for. One such unit was a squadron of 12 F-4J Fighter Jets that was scrambled as soon as the warning was recieved. The command staff were expecting Soviet Bombers to also attack the Base, and as such saw it prudent to lanuch fighters. However, when it became clear there would be no bombers, the Fighters were ordered south in the hope they could find a base to land it. This was the last time he unit was heard from, although it is likely that the EMPs knocked them out of the sky, the recent discovery of multiple nations in North and South Carolina has made many surviors and government researches wander about this group.Another supposed unit that survived was a group of 5 US Submarines that escaped the Harbour, but also never reported in. It is commonly believed that these Subs were either beached when the EMPs started, or were picked off by remaining Soviet Units in the days after Doomsday. Besides these "Ghost Units", it is commonly believed many Naval vessels escaped and were beached by their crew as they became unresponsive as their componets were fried by the EMPs, and the crews themselves soon died off due to radiation. Until a properly funded and managed team can be sent into the area, he world will never know.