Fogo Island Radar Station is located in Newfoundland and Labrador
Fogo Island Radar Station
Fogo Island Radar Station
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Fogo Island Radar Station (Quad) was a United States Army General Surveillance Ground Radar Early Warning Station in the Dominion of Newfoundland.[1][2] It was built during World War II and responsible for monitoring air traffic from Gander to Goose Bay and into the Atlantic Ocean.[3] It was located in Sandy Cove, Fogo Island 260 kilometres (160 mi) north-northwest of St. John's.[4] It was closed in 1945.[5]

History

The site was established in 1942 as the first United States Ground Radar Early Warning Station, funded by the United States Army,[6] which stationed the 685th Air Warning Squadron on the site under operational control of Newfoundland Base Command at Pepperrell Air Force Base.[7] The station was assigned to Royal Canadian Air Force in November 1944, and was given designation "No 44 RU".[8] The RCAF operated the station until 1 October 1945.[9]

It operated an SCR-270 manned Early-warning radar.[10]

United States Army Air Forces units and assignments

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Inactivated November 1944

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References

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

  1. ^ "A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 – 1980" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Other American Stations". www.heritage.nf.ca.
  3. ^ "Newfoundland Forts".
  4. ^ "The first United States Ground Radar Early Warning Station in the North Atlantic area at Sandy Cove, Fogo Island, Newfoundland".
  5. ^ "The CADIN Pinetree Line Locations".
  6. ^ "Searching the Skies, The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program" (PDF).
  7. ^ "HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Military Relations Between the U.S. And Canada, 1939–1945 [Chapter 7]".
  8. ^ "Fogo Island".
  9. ^ "1944/45 – Daily Diary – 44 Radio Unit – Fogo Island, Newfoundland".
  10. ^ "Newfoundland Forts". www.northamericanforts.com.
  • Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 – 1980,[1] Archived 13 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson AFB, CO (1980)