Annotated Bibliography: Distant Early Warning (DEW) System, Alaska

Part of the 611th Air Support Group Resources project

Author(s): Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML), Colorado State University

Year: 2008

Summary

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).

Cite this Record

Annotated Bibliography: Distant Early Warning (DEW) System, Alaska. Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML), Colorado State University. 2008 ( tDAR id: 459060) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8459060

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Keywords

Site Name
Tununuk Camp

Investigation Types
Historic Background Research • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
11th Air Force • 611th • 611th Air Support Group • 611th Civil Engineer Squadron • BAR-1 • BAR-2 • BAR-3 • BAR-4 • BAR-A • BAR-B • BAR-C • BAR-D • BAR-E • BAR-M • CAM-1 • CAM-2 • CAM-3 • CAM-4 • CAM-5 • CAM-A • CAM-B • CAM-C • CAM-D • CAM-E • CAM-F • COB-1 • COB-2 • COB-3 • COB-4 • COB-5 • COB-M • Communications • DEW • DEW System • Distant Early Warning System • DYE-1 • DYE-2 • DYE-3 • DYE-4 • DYE-M • FOX-1 • FOX-2 • FOX-3 • FOX-4 • FOX-5 • FOX-A • FOX-B • FOX-C • FOX-D • FOX-E • FOX-M • Ice Cap 1 • Ice Cap 2 • LIZ-1 • LIZ-2 • LIZ-3 • LIZ-A • LIZ-B • LIZ-C • North Warning System • NWS • Pacific Air Forces • PIN-1 • PIN-2 • PIN-3 • PIN-4 • PIN-A • PIN-B • PIN-C • PIN-D • PIN-E,CAM-M • PIN-M • POW-1 • POW-2 • POW-A • POW-B • POW-C • POW-D • POW-M • Radar • Radar and Communication Stations • United States Air Force Show More

Geographic Keywords
Alaska (State / Territory) • Atkinson Point • Australia (Continent) • Barter Island • Bernard Harbor • Bray Island • Broughton Island • Brownlow Point • Bullen Point • Byron Bay • Cambridge Bay • Canada (Country) • Cape Dyer • Cape Hooper • Cape Lisburne • Cape Parry • Cape Peel • Cape Sabine • Cape Sarichef • Cape Simpson • Cape Young • Clifton Point • Clinton Point • Cold Bay • Demarcation Bay • Dewar Lakes • Driftwood Bay • Durban Island • Ekalugad • Gladman Point • Greenland (Country) • Hall Beach • Hat Island • Horton River • Icy Cape • Jenny Lind Island • Keith Bay • Kivitoo • Kogru River Area • Komakuk Beach • Kulusuk • Lady Franklin Point • Longstaff Bluff • Mackar Inlet • Matheson Point • Nicholson Peninsula • Nikolski Bay • Nuduardjuk Lake • Oliktok Point • Pear Bay • Pear Point • Pelly Bay • Point Barrow • Point Lay • Point Lonely • Point McIntyre • Port Heiden • Port Moller • Qaqqataqa (Sisimiut) • Ross Point • Rowley Island • Scarpa Lake • Shepard Bay • Shingle Point • Simpson Lake • Stoke Point • Sturt Point • Tuktoyaktuk • Wainwright Show More

Spatial Coverage

min long: 109.442; min lat: -46.461 ; max long: -10.969; max lat: 83.052 ;

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