DEW Line – Overland Trains

Thule Air Base Christmas Menu 1955

In 1955, Christmas dinner looked and felt a little different for Air Force Service Members at the “Top of the…

The TC-264 Sno-Buggy spent some time in Greenland testing out the HUGE Firestone 120x48x68s and a few unpowered trailers. It…

Camp Century was a United States military installation buried under the northwestern tip of the Greenland ice sheet. It was…

Last month I was contacted by a man who said that his father worked at R.G. LeTourneau’s Longview, TX factory.…

The Russian humor/satirical magazine “Crocodile” began publishing in 1922. During the United States Greenland build-up, the Soviets were watching us…

In the spring of 1956, the Sno-Freighter was on it’s last DEW Line resupply mission. The Sno-Freighter did not travel…

If the military is involved, you can be certain that they will use an abbreviation or acronym for their organized…

In the late 1950s, the United States Army (USAR) started carving ice tunnels in the Greenland ice shelf. The tunnels…

Have you noticed your car, truck, or equipment starts a little slower when it is cold outside? Anyone who lives…

Writing the Overland Trains book has made me more sentimental. Conversations with individuals and their kin about the Distant Early…

Pine Tree Line – radar, planned 1946, handed over to Canada on 10Jan55 Mid-Canada Line or McGill Fence – 1956-1965DEW Line – radio…

I just finished reading Brian Jeffrey’s book “Adventures from the Coldest Part of the Cold War.” Brian’s book reviews his…