Radar Alarm For North America
(N.Z. Press Association Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) CHICAGO, April 28. The United States radar alarm system, which stretches 3000 miles across the frigid Arctic, was near completion, it was announced last night. Mr Hardy G. Ross, project manager of the Western Electric Company defence projects division, said tests of all main and auxiliary stations of the defence line, which would give warning in case of enemy air attack from the north, would be made this summer.
In a speech before the Chicago chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, Mr Ross said the establishment of the distant early warning line was “unparalleled in military construction history.” About 396,600 tons of material had been sent to the sites, which extended from the north-west tip of Alaska to the Baffin Island coast" of north-eastern Canada.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 12
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