My uncle helped build/test the Dew Line. I was a small child then but he really impressed me with the Polar Bear rug he brought home from that territory. It had the head with enormous teeth which fascinated me. Those men were really tough and many were WWII veterans like my uncle, a Marine in the Pacific theatre. The arctic didn't shoot back.
In our town of 56,000 in WI we still have the entire city covered by both old and new sirens which are tested on the 1st Monday of every month at 11:00 am. They are mainly there for tornados or violent T-storms, but they also have a special sounding for other take shelter emergencies. And each of the 7 townships around the area have dedicated volunteer fire station sirens. And the 3 other small cities more than 20 miles out from the city have their own systems, however in our city the dumbasses have put the emergency command center right in the center of the city and we ARE a target as we have a large telephone junction station in the middle of town as well as a super computer factory, old ammunition factories in moth balls, and 2 colleges as well as several high tech manufacturing businesses. Our government’s plan is to race to the airport and get out of town fast with their families. - the townships used to have a command center about 6 miles out of town but it was just a cinder block blockhouse in the side of a hill. No water, supplies, etc. and it was abandoned in the mid 60’s. So here we are left with the bent over self defense plan: bend over and kiss your ass good bye!
As a teacher, I can say it's because we had schools that actually taught students back then. After the late 60s, education was replaced by coddling, PC indoctrination and other so-called 'modern' modes of thinking. Hence the high percentage of graduates today who can't read or write and the dropping of the U.S. from top place to bottom place in international testing of math and science. How did this happen? Well, ask yourself who ran education back then and who runs it now. There's your answer.
Yeah, well the war on science and critical thinking was planned and implemented by the religitards. 6000 yr old Earth, miracles, total abandonment of reason and logic, protecting the fantasies of the ignorant religious right from questions that would expose their ridiculous dogmas, denial of accepted, proven, facts and evidence, crackpot religious myths implemented in the laws of the United States, yeah I get the idea. Hallelujah, Jeebus is coming back, End Times are a comin'.....
humbleradio excellent point! My wife is a teacher and I am a pastor. My father served in SAC, a Lt. Colonel. I was a ”brat” moving with him on a couple of station deployments. He loved Alaska. Mom couldn't stand it and stayed home lol. These men worked their butts off to protect this nation. Films like this one show that. AS a educator, you know the phrase ”garbage in, garbage out.” If we allow this dumbing down of our kids, we will get a ”dumb nation” in return. I absolutely agree with your premise and see first hand the damage this is doing. God bless you r your service!
As recently as 20 years ago the US High School and College education systems were rated as number 1 but US students have been performing at the bottom in regards to industrialized nations since the 60's.
Yep, gotta say, totally objectively, that from outside of the USA, your education and technology achievements during the 60s-80s were unequalled, envied, and often looked up on positively by those of us outside the USA. Now? Nope. The neo-right mantra that any state support is meddling means that only if you've got money do you get a great education. Sad how many 100,000's of brilliant engineers the USA must have lost because of its money first approach to education. And how the USA has slipped so far economically from its once great mantle. Reverse this trend, back talent - it rarely emerges from monetary wealth.
Worked on 9 sites in early 2000s on environmental cleanups, you want a mess, well I seen one, holy cow, anything and everything was buried. The PCBs were the worst. I was in Central and eastern arctic.
Those heavy equipments were either buried or sinked to the bottom of the ocean or lakes. Most of you probably heard that there's a dewline clean-up every summer now on certain sites. It's good and bad that americans starts this dewline.
17:00 This is why nowadays the main supply transport for these bases, and the gold mines in the same area, are done by iceroad trucks during the winter. Ships and planes just were too complicated and expensive.
For those who remember- we once viewed the _telephone company_ with as much *paranoia* as we did with Richard Nixon or Red China. This video shows _why._
I love films like this. Fuck textbooks, I know I can never know what it was like to live under the red scare, but primary sources like this are the closest I can get. Stuff like this gets me feeling creative, I wanna write a story or somethin about one of these bases now.
Truthfully, I thought this was a 'what if' situation since NOBODY in my family were in this kind of work. Both grandpa's were in WW2 and it's possible my great grandpa's were in something war-related, but that's about it.
Yeah, I'm from a military family. My great grandad on my dad's side was a union soldier and my great grandad on my mom's side was a confederate soldier. I always wondered if they shot at each other.
Those Air Force uniforms appear to be a green color on my screen 5:20. I ask if Air Force uniforms were green in those days (I Thought blue was normal) I ask, what model of aircraft is shown at 6:50
@@dmacpher Hello Dieter (you are not "that" Dieter are you?) I ask if there is a second choice on aircraft type? I should have known that it most likely was a Beaver. Small aircraft with large wing struts and a radial engine in the way of the pilot's vision on takeoff and landing. Sounds like a Beaver to me. I am just the right age to have worked the Alaska pipeline (construction) I had too good of a job here in the States to take the risk. Lots of guys went,and came back.
Illogical conclusion. With all the technological advances, this could be completed in half the time. For instance, oil directly from Alaska instead of shipped from Washington. Cargo containers, instead of loading one crate at a time, larger ships, larger jet engine aircraft, plus ice free oceans nearly all year.
"She come a long, long, way, from Frobisher Bay; people, don't you know now what I mean? She had the boys all cryin' on the Distant Early Warning line; Ol' Muk Tuk Annie could really make the scene." ua-cam.com/video/EweDGTl7GsY/v-deo.html
Good old Western Electric, for all you nuclear weapons needs and an early warning system which gave us 15 minutes advance warning before we were fried by a Russian nuke. Back when kids hid under their desks to protect them from a thermonuclear blast and the public library had a Fallout Shelter sign.
D Wetick Never undervalue what is learned by all the endeavour and effort. Arctic flight lessons were learned, structure building, north living, metal limitations. Remember Marconi managed to obsolete the transatlantic cable to Canada almost the same time it was completed, which took a couple years inc. having to restart after it broke and lost. What knowledge was learned then was carried forward to todays cable feats, and each method has own advantages, or we wouldn't have radar dishes at all today.
Too bad that everything has to be censored for our sensitive ears! The people who do this are sick in the head! If we don't know about what happened beforehand, how can we improve our operations in the future? This is bullshit!
My uncle helped build/test the Dew Line. I was a small child then but he really impressed me with the Polar Bear rug he brought home from that territory. It had the head with enormous teeth which fascinated me. Those men were really tough and many were WWII veterans like my uncle, a Marine in the Pacific theatre. The arctic didn't shoot back.
Thanks for posting this sweet video. My Dad worked on this DEW line for almost 3 years and he loved telling his stories!
This is an AWESOME video. Love this cold war history. Glad I was able to serve during the end - '82-'86. Thanks!!
Such an amazing video . The things that is not known about in the modern day . Just did not know .
My right ear really enjoyed the quality sound of this video.
It strained mine too! Very professional!
In our town of 56,000 in WI we still have the entire city covered by both old and new sirens which are tested on the 1st Monday of every month at 11:00 am. They are mainly there for tornados or violent T-storms, but they also have a special sounding for other take shelter emergencies. And each of the 7 townships around the area have dedicated volunteer fire station sirens. And the 3 other small cities more than 20 miles out from the city have their own systems, however in our city the dumbasses have put the emergency command center right in the center of the city and we ARE a target as we have a large telephone junction station in the middle of town as well as a super computer factory, old ammunition factories in moth balls, and 2 colleges as well as several high tech manufacturing businesses. Our government’s plan is to race to the airport and get out of town fast with their families.
- the townships used to have a command center about 6 miles out of town but it was just a cinder block blockhouse in the side of a hill. No water, supplies, etc. and it was abandoned in the mid 60’s. So here we are left with the bent over self defense plan: bend over and kiss your ass good bye!
One of the stations near a fishing village in Alaska, you could walk right up and take pictures.
Pressureworks, can you tell me more?
@@iagree5313 i should've mentioned this was in 1984.
In the states during the fifties and sixties we practiced our duck and cover…
@kurlobe AMEN Bro!! We stood up to the reds and they caved. I was a Marine in the early '80s and it was an interesting time believe me!!
As a teacher, I can say it's because we had schools that actually taught students back then. After the late 60s, education was replaced by coddling, PC indoctrination and other so-called 'modern' modes of thinking. Hence the high percentage of graduates today who can't read or write and the dropping of the U.S. from top place to bottom place in international testing of math and science. How did this happen? Well, ask yourself who ran education back then and who runs it now. There's your answer.
Yeah, well the war on science and critical thinking was planned and implemented by the religitards. 6000 yr old Earth, miracles, total abandonment of reason and logic, protecting the fantasies of the ignorant religious right from questions that would expose their ridiculous dogmas, denial of accepted, proven, facts and evidence, crackpot religious myths implemented in the laws of the United States, yeah I get the idea. Hallelujah, Jeebus is coming back, End Times are a comin'.....
humbleradio excellent point! My wife is a teacher and I am a pastor. My father served in SAC, a Lt. Colonel. I was a ”brat” moving with him on a couple of station deployments. He loved Alaska. Mom couldn't stand it and stayed home lol. These men worked their butts off to protect this nation. Films like this one show that.
AS a educator, you know the phrase ”garbage in, garbage out.” If we allow this dumbing down of our kids, we will get a ”dumb nation” in return. I absolutely agree with your premise and see first hand the damage this is doing. God bless you r your service!
As recently as 20 years ago the US High School and College education systems were rated as number 1 but US students have been performing at the bottom in regards to industrialized nations since the 60's.
@@godfreecharlie you have obviously drank the leftist communist Koolaid. Does it Hurt to be that Stupid?
Yep, gotta say, totally objectively, that from outside of the USA, your education and technology achievements during the 60s-80s were unequalled, envied, and often looked up on positively by those of us outside the USA. Now? Nope. The neo-right mantra that any state support is meddling means that only if you've got money do you get a great education. Sad how many 100,000's of brilliant engineers the USA must have lost because of its money first approach to education. And how the USA has slipped so far economically from its once great mantle. Reverse this trend, back talent - it rarely emerges from monetary wealth.
Thanks for the help with my history project XD
Worked on 9 sites in early 2000s on environmental cleanups, you want a mess, well I seen one, holy cow, anything and everything was buried. The PCBs were the worst. I was in Central and eastern arctic.
25:02 Oh yes, quite rousing. Nonstop action above the Arctic Circle.
The Americans of the 1950s knew allot more about Canada than the Americans of today.
We know your PM is a communist.
Those heavy equipments were either buried or sinked to the bottom of the ocean or lakes. Most of you probably heard that there's a dewline clean-up every summer now on certain sites. It's good and bad that americans starts this dewline.
Thanks for the upload ! I never knew Edmonton was involved.
17:00 This is why nowadays the main supply transport for these bases, and the gold mines in the same area, are done by iceroad trucks during the winter. Ships and planes just were too complicated and expensive.
Our forebearers accomplished so many impressive things.
@humbleradio, I 'm very inclined to say "You are correct, sir!" in your guess that the narrator was Johnny (RIP).
You gotta dew what you gotta dew.
@umahuma4 Lights out I assume? I know the Loran C base is lights out in the Arctic as well.
What a foreboding, cold and hostile environment! At least they gave us RUSH & Kids In The Hall.
For those who remember- we once viewed the _telephone company_ with as much *paranoia* as we did with Richard Nixon or Red China. This video shows _why._
And we didn't learn a darn thing. Now we have silicone valley tech and social media companies controlling everything we see online
Paranoia? Bell laboratories and Western Electric were both major contributors to the technology that made national defense possible.
I love films like this. Fuck textbooks, I know I can never know what it was like to live under the red scare, but primary sources like this are the closest I can get. Stuff like this gets me feeling creative, I wanna write a story or somethin about one of these bases now.
How's that story going
awesome!
Sounds kind of like the beginning of the giant claw.
The general got a very high paying job with Bell after his retirement.
cutting edge mimeograph technology used
Truthfully, I thought this was a 'what if' situation since NOBODY in my family were in this kind of work. Both grandpa's were in WW2 and it's possible my great grandpa's were in something war-related, but that's about it.
Yeah, I'm from a military family. My great grandad on my dad's side was a union soldier and my great grandad on my mom's side was a confederate soldier. I always wondered if they shot at each other.
Those Air Force uniforms appear to be a green color on my screen 5:20. I ask if Air Force uniforms were green in those days (I Thought blue was normal) I ask, what model of aircraft is shown at 6:50
Looks like a Beaver
@@dmacpher Hello Dieter (you are not "that" Dieter are you?) I ask if there is a second choice on aircraft type? I should have known that it most likely was a Beaver. Small aircraft with large wing struts and a radial engine in the way of the pilot's vision on takeoff and landing. Sounds like a Beaver to me. I am just the right age to have worked the Alaska pipeline (construction) I had too good of a job here in the States to take the risk. Lots of guys went,and came back.
Dan R i am A Dieter - depends on where you know the name. If from Cannabis then yes.
Dan R Could also be a single otter - the radial engine really limits what it could be. I’m not aware of a Cessna at the time with one.
@@dmacpher Hello. From the movie Little Dieter Needs to Fly.
We couldn't get something like this done if we had to in a decade now!
Agreed. Too much arguing from BOTH sides, in addition to protests from various groups.
Illogical conclusion. With all the technological advances, this could be completed in half the time. For instance, oil directly from Alaska instead of shipped from Washington. Cargo containers, instead of loading one crate at a time, larger ships, larger jet engine aircraft, plus ice free oceans nearly all year.
Give the job to the Corp of Engineers. They'll get it done.
In 1999, DEW was a Directed Energy Weapon....
"She come a long, long, way, from Frobisher Bay; people, don't you know now what I mean? She had the boys all cryin' on the Distant Early Warning line; Ol' Muk Tuk Annie could really make the scene." ua-cam.com/video/EweDGTl7GsY/v-deo.html
Good old Western Electric, for all you nuclear weapons needs and an early warning system which gave us 15 minutes advance warning before we were fried by a Russian nuke. Back when kids hid under their desks to protect them from a thermonuclear blast and the public library had a Fallout Shelter sign.
I'm curious what the Russians thought of the DEW line or if they had an equivalent
They did. They even had platforms on Artic ice. It is a cool thing to study. Look up Woodpecker.
Duga sites I and II, near Chernobyl. The antenna array is still there, though not connected to anything.
They trusted the phone company for this project.
Dew/ direct energy weapon!.
I think it was born 30 years too soon!
The DEW Line, HA! More like the DON'T line.
Mst3k!
@@robbiereilly Yeah. I’m telling you don’t. Cross that line and World War III is on!
LOL i bet this was like the 2012 scare we deal with today
Anyone else think the narrator might be a young Johnny Carson?
Possible.
I did not know that. *YaHa.*
humbleradio I really don’t think so.
Its now all pretty much obsolete junk when the satellites came along a few years later.
D Wetick Never undervalue what is learned by all the endeavour and effort. Arctic flight lessons were learned, structure building, north living, metal limitations.
Remember Marconi managed to obsolete the transatlantic cable to Canada almost the same time it was completed, which took a couple years inc. having to restart after it broke and lost. What knowledge was learned then was carried forward to todays cable feats, and each method has own advantages, or we wouldn't have radar dishes at all today.
wish I could of helped build that
DEW they or don't they.
Too bad that everything has to be censored for our sensitive ears! The people who do this are sick in the head! If we don't know about what happened beforehand, how can we improve our operations in the future? This is bullshit!
It was censored for the general public to protect classified information when shown on TV. The enemy watches TV too.
"American and Canadian" people? Both are equally "american" ! The "Americas", "North America" all are "americans".
You're assuming ALL Canadians WANT to be referred to as American.
@@zoeyrochellezhombie829 I am not assuming anything.
Hahaha