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Curlew Air Force Station

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B medium-range search radar, and initially the station functioned as a Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) and warning station. As a GCI station, the squadron's role was to guide interceptor aircraft toward unidentified intruders picked up on the unit's radar scopes.
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Today, the radar site itself is obliterated, a few foundations and some crumbling concrete is all that remains. The cantonment area is used as a Job Corps center, known as the Curlew Civilian Conservation Center.
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height-finder radar was installed in 1957. In 1959 the 638th AC&W Squadron was inactivated, and the station was converted to an unmanned gap-filler radar site (P-60C) to support
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The permanent site (P-6) was moved to Bodie Mountain (Curlew AFS) on 1 December 1953, and the 638th AC&W Squadron began operating an
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and activated at Mount Bonaparte AFS (LP-6), Washington on 5 May 1950. By March 1951 the squadron was operating an
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Curlew Air Force Station was one of twenty-eight stations built as part of the second segment of the
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Searching the skies : the legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program
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General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 16 miles (26 km) north of
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162d Aircraft Control and Warning Group (Federalized AZ ANG), 25 May 1951
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List of United States Air Force aircraft control and warning squadrons
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The 638th Tactical Control Squadron was redesignated as the
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A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization, 1946 - 1980
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Site renamed Curlew Air Force Station, 1 December 1953
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permanent radar network. Prompted by the start of the
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Curlew AFS is located in Washington (state)
48°52′38″N 118°47′08″W / 48.87722°N 118.78556°W / 48.87722; -118.78556 (Curlew AFS P-6)
United States Air Force
United States Air Force
Republic, Washington
Air Defense Command
Korean War
638th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
AN/TPS-1
AN/FPS-3
AN/FPS-5
AN/FPS-6
Colville AFS
505th Aircraft Control and Warning Group
25th Air Division
4702d Defense Wing

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