The White Alice Communications System was a United States Air Force telecommunication network with 80 radio stations constructed in Alaska during the Cold War. It used tropospheric scatter for over-th
Boswell Bay, Alaska White Alice site, tropospheric scatter antenna and feedhorn
Barter Island, Alaska White Alice tropospheric antennas
Overview of Boswell Bay, Alaska WACS showing how remote the sites were. Some locations required tram systems to ascend the mountain on which they were located.
Boswell Bay, Alaska White Alice Site, 30 ft (9 m) antenna for Middleton Island hop foreground, 60 ft (18 m) antenna background
Distant Early Warning Line
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The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the north coast
White Alice Communications System
…smaller microwave dishes for point-to-point links. The system connected remote Air Force sites in Alaska, such as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W), Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) and Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), to command and control facilities and in some cases it was used for civilian phone calls…
POW-2, now Oliktok Long Range Radar Site
The LeTourneau snow train in Alaska
DEW line station formerly at Point Lay, Alaska.
A DYE station in western Greenland is visible in the distance beyond the snow-drifted equipment pallets in the foreground of this photograph.