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611th Air Support Group Resources
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Annotated Bibliography: Distant Early Warning (DEW) System, Alaska (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML), Colorado State University.

An annotated bibliography of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) System. The DEW Line was an integrated chain of early warning radar and communication stations constructed between 1953 and 1957 from northwestern Alaska across northern Canada. The DEW System remained in use throughout the mid to late 1980s. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was replaced with the North Warning System (NWS).


BAR-1 Distant Early Warning (DEW) Auxiliary Station Komakuk Beach, Yukon Territory (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David Neufeld.

This document describes the Distant Early Warning Line station clean-up procedures and standards that were under discussion and development within the Canadian Department of National Defense (DND).


Bar-1 Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line Radar Station Photographs and Photo Log from the 1960s (1960)
DOCUMENT Full-Text 611th Civil Engineer Squadron.

Various photographs from the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line Radar Station Bar-1 in the early 1960s.


The Cold War in Alaska: A Management Plan For Cultural Resources (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Colt D. Denfeld. Jennifer Abel.

The following is a Cultural Resources Management Plan for Cold War related facilities. This management document describes goals for the preservation of Cold War military facilities in Alaska.


DEW Line As-Built Drawing Index U.S. Air Force January 1993 DE-3A/2827A/0256A (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text 611th Civil Engineer Squadron.

An index of As Built drawings for the Distant Early Warning Line.


DEW Line Photographs Index: List of all Photos in DEW Line Collection (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Joanne J. Johnson Collection, Parks Canada.

An index of all photograph negatives based on contact sheets for the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line Radar Station BAR-1 shoot.


The Distant Early Warning (Dew) Line: A Bibliography and Documentary Resource List (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Matthew J. Farish. Jennifer Arthur-Lackenbaur.

The Distant Early Warning Line was a string of continental defense radars, ultimately stretching from Alaska to Greenland. This research compendium provides a list of relevant sources on the DEW Line and Cold War continental defense. It focuses on primary sources available in Canada, and a systematic survey of published sources from Canada and the United States.


Final Historic Building and Evaluation of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) System (1999)
DOCUMENT Full-Text 611th Civil Engineer Squadron.

This report presents the results of an inventory and evaluation of Cold War-era buildings and structures at eight Distant Early Warning (DEW) installations. These eight installations represent the original, experimental Alaska Segment of DEW installations that provided the first comprehensive, defensive working system for possible attacks aimed at the North American continent (Thompson 1986) during the period of 1953 through 1969. The eight installations and their function within he system...


"This is the Most Important Part" Commemorating the Industrial Heritage of the Cold War Bar-1 Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line Auxiliary Radar Station, Komakuk Beach, Yukon Territory, Canada (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David Neufeld.

An archaeological study of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line performed by researchers from the Yukon and Western Arctic Parks, Canada. The DEW Line operated in arctic Canada for forty years from experimental beginnings in 1953 to a final shutdown in 1993. The DEW Line was an important technological achievement constructing and maintaining highly complex radio and radar equipment in a difficult and challenging environment.


United States Air Force Distant Early Warning (DEW) System Bar-1 Auxiliary Station Fonds Master File List and Appraisal (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text 611th Civil Engineer Squadron.

An inventory of files and appraisal for the Distant Early Warning System, BAR-1 Auxiliary Station Fonds