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Kodiak Alaska Military History
The official web site of the Kodiak Military History Museum
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Above is a small crop of one map. The maps below show the entire territory. The numbers on the map refer to the index numbers in the table below.
Left half, Aleutians
Right Half, Alaska Penninsula to Ketchikan
There were several fixed radars on Kodiak:
#47 SCR-296A Cape Chiniak at Round Top, Ft. Smith
#67 SCR-582 Long Island at Deer Point, Ft. Tidball
#48 SCR-296A Long Island at Castle Bluffs, Ft. Tidball
#49 SCR-296A Piedmont Point in Ft. Abercrombie
#25 SCR-271 Cape Chiniak
#26 SCR-271 Lazy Bay
Unknown type at Cliff Point
Types of radar at Kodiak
Note: The only record of any SCR-271 at Kodiak is the map mentioned on this page.
From the legend on the map mentioned above
AWS PROJECT LOCATIONS INSTALLED BY A.C.S.
Alaska Communication System Signal Corps U.S. Army 20 Dec 43 drawing No. 43-690 scale 1 inch = 41 miles (approx)
| Index | Project No. | Location |
Filter Centers | ||
| 1 | A-1 (abandoned) | Fairbanks |
| 2 | A-2 (abandoned) | Sitka |
| 3 | A-3 (abandoned) | Annette Island |
| 4 | A-4 (abandoned) | Nome |
| 5 | A-5 (abandoned) | Yakutat |
| 6 | A-6 | Fort Randall |
| 7 | A-7 (abandoned) | Naknek |
| 8 | A-8 (abandoned) | Bethel |
| 9 | A-9 | Kodiak |
| 10 | A-10 | Fort Glenn |
| 11 | A-12 | Adak |
| 12 | A-13 | Amchitka |
| 13 | A-14 (abandoned) | Juneau |
| 14 | A-17 | Fort Mears |
| 15 | A-25 | Attu |
| 16 | A-26 | Shemya |
| 17 | RAD 966 (abandoned) | Fort Richardson |
Ground Radar SCR-271 | ||
| 22 | A-11 | Cape Tanak |
| 23 | RAD 924 | Sitka |
| 24 | RAD 972 | Cape Wislow |
| 25 | RAD 974 | Cape Chiniak |
| 26 | RAD 977 | Lazy Bay |
| 27 | RAD 993 | Cape Prominence |
| 28 | RAD 994 | Sanak Island |
| 29 | RAD 981 | Nikolski |
| 30 | RAD 9-146 | Outer Island |
Ground Radar SCR-588 | ||
| 34 | A-18 | Amchitka |
| 35 | A-19 | Shemya |
| 36 | A-23 | Cape Yakak |
Surface Craft Detector SCR-296 | ||
| 40 | RAD 9-205 (divirted) | Annette Island |
| 41 | RAD 9-135 | Abalone Island |
| 42 | RAD 9-139* | St. Lasaria |
| 43 | RAD 9-140* | Biorka Island |
| 44 | RAD 9-133 | Ocean Cape |
| 45 | RAD 9-217* | Rugged Island |
| 46 | RAD 9-128* | Caines Head |
| 47 | RAD 9-148 | Cape Chiniak |
| 48 | RAD 9-134 | Long Island |
| 49 | RAD 9-156 | Piedmont Point |
| 50 | RAD 11R-1005 | Martinsen Lagoon |
| 51 | RAD 9-186 | Ulatka Head |
| 52 | RAD 9-187 | Eider Point |
| 53 | RAD 9-136 | Cape Idak |
| 54 | RAD 11R-100 | Cape Adagdak |
| 55 | RAD 11R-1017 | Cape Kiguga |
| 56 | RAD 11R-1001 | Cape Adagdak |
| 57 | RAD 11R-101 | Kirlof Point |
| 58 | RAD 11R-1002 | St. Makarius |
| 59 | RAD 11R-1008 | Shemya |
| 60 | RAD 11R-1009 | Attu |
| 61 | RAD 11R-1010 | Attu |
| 62 | A-32 | Attu |
Surface Craft Detector SCR-582 | ||
| 65 | RAD 9-198 | Makhnati Island |
| 66 | RAD 9-199 | Rugged Island |
| 67 | RAD 9-157 | Deer Point |
| 68 | RAD 9-197 | Ulatka Head |
| 69 | RAD 11R-1016 | Cape Adagdak |
| 70 | RAD 11R-1013 | Attu |
| 71 | A-33 | Attu |
Surface Craft Detector SCR-682 | ||
| 73 | RAD 11R-1015 | Fort Mears |
| 74 | A-31 | Amchitka |
More SCR-296A and SCR-583 radar information is on the Fort Tilden web page.
The only known other SCR-296A radar antenna in existence is at
Ft. Learnard, Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
There are many other remote sites shown on
the radar map that have not been thoroughly investigated.
Possible source of more information is: Coast Artillery Training Bulletin Vol 2 No 6, dated June 1943. (Unverified.)
Most of these links mention the SCR-582 radar, one of which was on Long Island. There is good radar history here with much on the MIT Rad Lab.
Ivan A. Getting interview June 11, 1991
Interviewee: Catherine F. Scott Interviewer: William Aspray Date: June 12, 1991
There is one mention of another radar at Kodiak, but only in a list of equipment. It's the SCR-547 radar ("Mickey Mouse" from twin-dish antennas) mounted on a converted acoustic-locator trailer.
Main index
http://www.kadiak.org/radio/radar_index.html This page created 2007 February 7, updated 2007 March 23.
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