DEW Line Story (1958)
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DEW LINE STORY by National Archives and Records Administration
Describes the construction along a 3,000 mile line of a series of radar sites in northern Canada and Alaska, illustrating the effective cooperation between private industry and the governments of both countries.
Publication date 1958
ARC Identifier 52896 / Local Identifier 306.6699.
So, in 58 I was a one-year-old. My Father worked on the Dew Line; His last job was in Thule Greenland in 67-69. Moving all 8 kids to Europe in 61 then 10 kids back to the USA in 67. I can still see him in the pictures and 8mm film that he brought back. Once a C-130 coming in for a landing lost one of the skids, one engine had to be removed repaired and re-fitted, plus some other repairs made for it to fly out again. I can still see his smiling face. Love you Dad.
I was born in 57. My Dad retired from Bell telephone after 32 years. My Papa will be 90 in Aug. America did some amazing things back then but that was normal back then. Don’t recognize America now but have some good memories.
That is pretty cool see your dad part of history!
@@Mikael5732 American has collapsed
Was your father an officer or an NCO?
I learned about this in 4th grade in 1969 and NEVER heard it mentioned again until today in 2022.
Much of my schooling was nearly worthless.
ALL LIES TOO!
I LOVED RECESS !
DEW + SAC = Unbeatable combination.
I flew as part of a salvage and survey military crew to all the dew line sites in Northern Ontario back in the mid 80s to check on the remaining transformers at each site as one had leaked badly, we cleaned up the site and placed four large barrels of contaminated material, including our uniforms, in one of the abandoned building for later transport out, I got to look around a lot of the sites, there are some amazing artifacts still intact there like the old RCAF fire engine at Winisk, someone should really take a look at them all and photograph the camps and collect any collectable relics for transport back to the museum in Ottawa
hello Dave i remember in 2010 in the fall up Frazer dale highway or road 632 you guys where cleaning this sit called fox Ville smooth rockfalls Ontario had an office in the old pharmacy store
Please see my comments about the Mid-Canada Line of which the radar site at Winisk was a part of, a great many hundreds of miles south of the DEWLine.
@@markpimlott2879 I didnt say Winisk was part of the Dewline, we flew out of Winisk which was homebase for our Chinook and TAMS crews, we conducted and checked on the Dewline sites as part of the cleanup operations, this was with 450 Sqn out of Uplands Airforce Base in Ottawa many many moons ago now, and the Dewline sites were filled with amazing relics like the fire engine and the buildings looked like they had just been lived in :D cheers
You mentioned (& I quote) "...all of the dew line (sic) sites in northern Ontario...".
THERE NEVER WERE ANY SUCH SITES IN ONTARIO!
Pinetree Line sites and Mid-Canada Line sites in Ontario - YES!
DEWLine sites in Ontario - NOT A SINGLE ONE ... EVER!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Canada_Line
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@@markpimlott2879 whatever, we still surveyed the DEW Line sites, moved a FN village and cleaned up a highly contaminated site, a job well done :D cheers
In the early 1980's. We were sent up these radar stations to installed telephone cable's . They were removing all the military personal from the radar sights. There were linking all the radar sites over to satellites communications back to Elmendorf AFB. I was with the 1835th E.I.S. station at Norton AFB, California.
We had a substitute instructor for a while when I was in electronics school back in the 60s who had worked on the dew line. We did lose some ground in the course itinerary because we wouldn't let him teach anything. All we wanted to hear from him was his dew line stories!
My grandfather worked on the line as a pilot. One of his friends Ron R Lees died flying people in to one of the locations.
I was stationed on Adak in the Aleutians. There was the end of the dew line the antenna was called White Alice.
The White Alice telecommunication links are as interesting in their own right as the DEW Line. Thank you for mentioning them!
Radar Station Veterans Websites may provided additional information from the people in the military who manned these sites after development, construction and manning.
My uncle Bill was a Canadian Naval Officer posted and saw the St. Roch come through in 1943. BUT you weren't allowed photos and you were not allowed to get too close. I saw his 8mm. film of the St Roch but it was from a mile away. no perspective: tree, road, etc. Even as a SERVING officer there were restrictions in place.
12 years strong. Not sure where you find this footage but hopefully it last for another 100 years or more. Just to think if UA-cam is around for another 80 years. Just imagine seeing this comment 77 years ago
From other youtubers. This has been posted for years on other channels.
I remember seeing this move in school when we first got to Alaska in 1964 - 65. We were also inundated with survival moves.
You'd probably find the linked Bell System film about the somewhat similar White Alice sites in Alaska of the same era, of great interest as well!
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ua-cam.com/video/IHMtlyF4ccU/v-deo.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Alice_Communications_System
this is great, thanks for the uploads they never get old, just better.
For some things, biggest is best. NO ONE BUT NO ONE could have designed, built, organized, supervised an tested this massive operation....but MA BELL (ATT) and Western Electric. Built the biggest and best communications system in the world, from the first pole to Telstar, DewLine, and much dark and classified for Uncle Sam.
Don’t forget the telephone network that connected almost all Americans across the country from the 1890s until divestiture. AT&T, Bell, Western Electric
Across Canada by cable and microwave linked antennas for telephone service as well!
Ma Bell also has a daughter in Alaska named White Alice! 😍
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Alice_Communications_System
ua-cam.com/video/IHMtlyF4ccU/v-deo.html
(A COLD WAR ERA, BELL SYSTEM FILM ABOUT THE ALASKAN W.A.C.S.!)
Bitter cold. The electronics class teacher at Thousand Oaks High School said he worked on DEW Line. He claimed some employees would stand in front of the antennas to warm up! He didn't. Thought it was a bad idea. If true, I wonder how many of those guys died from cancer.
'No cancer but they never had to use a condom for birth control ever again!
23:05 , Love the plane runway, instant V1 airborne lift at the end of the runaway that isn't there just airspace. My Ballymote Irish immigrant Dad Bill Perry Sr.worked at the DEWLINE months at a time as a greenhorn heavy equipment operator,l can remember him being gone lot's when living in a 160 acer hobby farm Ste. Anne's Manitoba in 1974 when I was 10 now I'm 58 & a 1/2. From Alberta Canada
wonderful, my dad always talked of this,,,he worked for Western Electric
Nice "Victory At Sea" soundtrack.
Absolutely amazing. I really doubt today's people would be capable of such a momentous task in such a short time.
Nonsense. People today are just as dedicated skilled and reliable. If the US Air Force was able to throw massive chunks of money into stopping the 'Red Menace", it can be done again.
@@markdoldon8852 I don't think so. I could give dozens of examples where 50-60s workers did extraordinary things in records times. The Saturn V rocket would be a fair representative project. It was something so large and capable that it was all new technology and it went from concept to a workable launch vehicle in five years. The Space Launch System is not much more than a collection of old parts started development in 2011 and so far has spent over $23 billion on the project (more than a Ford Class state of the art nuclear aircraft carrier) and it still isn't ready to launch. Though clearly our technology is much more advanced than the 1950s, our ability to get the job done in a timely fashion has regressed considerably. The reasons are open to discussion.
They'd be more worried about appearances and political implications thereof. God forbid the braindead public realizes we're at war again. They'll either go nuts or start taking their lives seriously...
There was also a line of Radar Sites along the southern border of the US from coast to coast. Simultaneously, there were also Nike anti aircraft missile sites scattered throughout major cities. Some remnants may be seen even today. Satellites and ICBMs made some of this technology obsolete by the mid sixties.
There was a Nike site in Wayne, NJ when we moved there from Fort Lee, NJ in 1961...there c we're twobsites..the radar site on Alps and Rstzer roads..the actual launch site was 5 miles away in Mountain View...on Sunday mornings on the wsy to Mass we could see the radar screens rotating...but at age 11 I didn't "get it"....
Actually there were three defense lines the DEW Line, Mid Canadian Line and I forget the name of the Line at the US and Canada border.
Here in Minnesota there was a nike missile site less than 15 minutes away from where I live and about 12 years ago I lived one of my brother's homes and that one was 3 minutes away from the house. Also in the town of St Bonifacious here we call it st boni. Anyways they have a nike missile in the town park and it has stories about the sites we had here. The site near my brother's old house was torn down the same year I saw it and recently the actual site was torn down I think in the last 2 or 3 years I think that site was the radar site and there's a road named after that site.
You can still buy old Nike silos right now all around the city of Homestead florida
We had NIKE missile sites over looking Cleveland Ohio stationed on the hills in Garfield Heights.
Thanks for dropping this! I love these old documentaries!
My great uncle jimmy mcGladdery worked on this system. He was a carpenter.
Cool 📽️ I had heard of it. And what it's purpose was. However I had no idea how they went about constructing it until I watch this film. Thanks for posting it.
Amazing how we actually used to accomplish things as a civilization.
The band Rush wrote a song called "Distant Early Warning" about a man working on the DEW Line.
Thanks buddy from the old 🇬🇧for your uploads they are classic
This was obviously a " Western Electric" ( AKA " Bell") funded film. I was a little kid, but I was there. 98% of the work was done by U.S. Military. Army and Navy. The " Air Force" had just been invented ( from the Army Air Corps") and they didn't have squat. A great deal of the ground work was done by " SCARWAF" - Army Corp Of Engineers assigned to Air Force". They forgot to tell a few fun facts. Alaska was not yet a " State" , just a territory. The only way to get there was boat, plane, or the ( then all gravel) ALCAN Highway. And this was Pre satellite communication.
Why is it people always want to make things into a contest of "who was most important"? Without the civilian contracted companies, none of it would have happened as the COE didn't manufacture the electrical, telephone, and electronics needed for the DEW Line. When the Army is paying the costs for the documentary, THEY can forget the Air Force and civilian companies and personnel and claim it was all done by the Army.
...I saw this short at the now defunct Lee Theater in Fort Lee, NJ at that rime...I was 8 years old...
Excellent video!
Cool to watch older videos
Thank you kindly…
Very nice. Thank you.
I love this old stuff. The cars. The clothing. The eyeglasses. The men's hats. I was a child.
5:10 I like the security guard (Actor?) keeping a close eye on those science fellas.
your channel is soo cool ^^ thnx for the videos.
My uncle Clair Hylton was a steamfitter who worked on the construction of the Dew Line.
cool video though must have been a awesome experience for those who worked on the project
Excellent
These are the guys who found the beast from 20,000 fathoms
It's a good thing the Americans came in and conquered that nasty old Arctic where people lived for generations.
you're welcome
Not all DEW sites were above Arctic Circle. I was stationed at Sparrevohn ,AK as an Air Force Power Plant Operator 1972-1973
I really hope the new norad includes the homeland sheild initiative. A surface to air missile, anti ballistic missile sheild along with the radars from the arctic to the mid Canada line to the dew line and possibly to each cost. Its long overdue and with the second cold war hear we need some sort of advanced air and sea defense for missiles and aircrafts
Wonder if they'll reoccupy and upgrade the existing DEW Line stations...
'Rght on buddy!
Today's evolving threat landscape in the North American and Nordic Arctic is at least as threatening as we were experiencing during the early 1950s when the three previous radar lines were created. I.e. From south to north in Canada - the PinetreeLine, the Mid-Canada Line and the Distant Early Warning Line (DEWLine).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Canada_Line
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23:48 Teddyboy-Technician.
Every major radar station had to have these Radomes after this, even among much more moderate climatic circumstances. It just was the 'dernier cri'
We used to understand that government largesse, such as the DEW line, was a way by which everybody prospered
Yesteryear yes, today no. 😞
Build them a dozer with a cab!
Kids these days would never volunteer for this gig to build up there!
I’m curious if the salary was good for the personal that worked at the DEW Line?
True earth is flat & stationary. Weird how it’s the “distant early warning line” similar to the 60 parallel that your not allowed past.
It's interesting to review these military / industrial propaganda films 55 years later on after growing up on Alaska Air Command bases. People really were all on the same page back then about the Red Menace
Do they still maintain a Dew line? Are there civilian jobs?
Yes there are. Most of the Alaska sites only have 4 or 5 people onsite at a time. This usually consists of 2 mechanics and 2or 3 techs. They used to worked 9 weeks at a time. Others travel to these sites for short term maintenance. These jobs used to be hired out of the teamsters 959 in Alaska. You have to live here and have the qualifications to get on the books. I have been to many of the sites over 20 years ago turning up satellite links on a contract for the FAA.
My Dad helped build the Kapuskasing DEW Line but it was before 1958.
That was a Pinetree Line site!
Excellent! Haarp im assuming.
Those formulas were taken from ancient Hindu texts. Thousands of years ago on our Planet there were wars with even more destructive weapons. In those same libraries there are books that talk about them.
26:50...and then The Thing arrived via canine.
Soon followed by the Deadly Mantis
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The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore, not like they did back in 1954.
Who is the narrator?
25:16: Where's Waldo.
now all that technology is in the palm of everyone's hand ..haha
Here we go. Like #999
Distant Early Warning.
Rush created an excellent song!
Funny, as Canadiens, that is not how the story was reported to us.
Less tractor and more bulldozer.
Yall ready?
At 0:45 "No place for human beings".
One simply has to admire the logistics of this undertaking along with the fact, that all of this was done in one of the most hostile environments this planet has to offer
Bet a million dollars that's Johnny Carson narrating this...l
I'd like to know what the women who went there did...
Do the dew
Now have dew, direct energy weapons………
But did they find a flying saucer in the ice. The Thing from another World. LOL
Thst was South Pole. Different story...
@@markdoldon8852 In the 1950's movie it was the North Pole and the Thing from another world was played by James Arness. Look it up.
As a kid I got to operated one of the first computer mouses on a crt
I’m not trying to be anti-patriotic, as I love my country and I love the old ways, but am I the only one that thinks this was an incredible waste of resources? There had to be cheaper ways to achieve similar surveillance. Think about it, if the terrain is too unforgiving to easily keep our recon jets fueled up and secure, how the heck were the Soviets going to do a surprise attack through the thousands of miles… This is the military industrial complex at its finest. Then again, I’m one who believes that the Cold War was largely a farce. The tippy top brass of both powers liked the unified and zealous work they got out of their people during WWII and wanted to keep the magic going.
How was this done without a diverse workforce?
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Why not just use a nuke to clear the snow?
The USA /NATO military killed the Eskimo's dogs so they would have to stay close to dew point stations and not wonder off. They almost starved to death because the couldn't go out on the land and ice to hunt.
You just couldn't resist throwing NATO in there, could you.
Since NATO is doing it's best to start WW3, maybe people need to wake up to the real nature of the organization.
@@canamwing6999If raising awareness about NATO is your goal, making up absurd stories might not be the best way to go about it.
@@Milkmans_Son How is it absurd? I worked in in the Canadian arctic 2002-2005. One of my first jobs was to fly DEW line survey workers in locating the original sites in the lower latitudes that the public wasn't told about. while I was their the Inuit government was seeking compensation for the mass dog killing of the 1950's that I previously wrote about. Please prove me wrong if you can.
@@canamwing6999 The Earth is flat. Prove me wrong if you can.
Do you see the problem here?