View of Leland A. Olson (left) and another man at Sparrevohn Lang Range Radar Site headquarters in western Alaska, with quonset hut in background. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote...
View of Lime Hills as seen from Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote radar site and operated from 1953-early 1980's. From slide mount:...
View of Weasel Ridge at Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska, with building at left. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote radar site and operated from 1953-early 1980's....
Title taken from slide mount. View of air strip at Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska, as seen from vehicle (airplane?) on runway. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote...
Aerial view of Sparrevohn Dome (possibly radome?) at Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska, with airplane partially visible in photo. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote...
Aerial view of switchback road at Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska, with airplane partially visible in photo. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote radar site and...
Title taken from slide mount. View of snowy airstrip at Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote radar site and operated from 1953-early...
Aerial view of Sparrevohn Dome (possibly radome?) at Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska, with airplane partially visible in photo. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote...
Title taken from caption. Aerial view of an Alaskan Air Command radar installation. From verso: "HQ AAC -- Early warning -- BMEWS Site 2, at Clear, Alaska boasts three AN/FPS-50 fixed detection radars. Clear was the second operational site in the...
View looking west along route of proposed White Alice Communications cable on Ohlson Mountain near Homer, Alaska, with Aircraft Control & Warning wall construction at left. The White Alice Communications System (WACS) was a United States Air Force...
61 second film clip, color with audio track narration Clip of the LeTourneau snowtrain. Narration briefly describes the role of the snowtrain in re-supplying the Distant Early Warning [DEW] stations.
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from front. View of two men and boats in Homer, Alaska, with car at left. The pier behind the men has a building on it and two signs that read: "Warning Deep Water" and "Speed Limit 3 MPH". Photo taken between 1960 and 1964. Original...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads: "Haines Junction mi[le] 1019 Al[aska]-Hi[ghwa]y T[erritory], C[anada] 31-8-53." View of signs just outside of Haines, Alaska. Signs read: "Welcome to Haines, seaport terminus of the ALCAN, 159 miles of...
Interior shot of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line construction camp dining hall in Driftwood Bay, Unalaska Island, 1958. Two men are standing at a counter; tables are set with dishes and cutlery. DEW Line sites were constructed in the Aleutian...
Text on photo reads "Placing Dome, Driftwood Bay 1958". Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line site construction at Driftwood Bay. Construction worker is visible on scaffolding on the upper left of the dome. DEW Line sites were constructed in the...
View of woman standing in doorway of FEC (Federal Electric Corporation) building most likely at DEW (Distance Early Warning) Line site at Cape Dyer, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Another building is visible at left and red dolly is visible at...
Title taken from slide mount. Aerial view of DEW (Distance Early Warning) Line radar station at Cape Dyer, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, with airplane partially visible at right. Building and two antennas are visible at far bottom of photo. DEW...