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Fogo Island Radar Station
Part of United States General Surveillance Radar
Newfoundland
Emblem of the 685th Air Warning Squadron
Coordinates	49°42′32″N 054°04′18.8″W / 49.70889°N 54.071889°W / 49.70889; -54.071889 (Fogo Island Radar Station)
Type	Radar Station
Code	Quad
Site information
Controlled by	Newfoundland Base Command
Site history
Built	1942
Built by	United States Army
In use	1943–1945
Garrison information
Garrison	685th Air Warning Company

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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. It was built during World War II and responsible for monitoring air traffic from Gander to Goose Bay and into the Atlantic Ocean. It was located in Sandy Cove, Fogo Island 260 kilometres (160 mi) north-northwest of St. John's. It was closed in 1945.

History

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

It operated an SCR-270 manned Early-warning radar.

United States Army Air Forces units and assignments

Units:

• 685th Air Warning Company, 1943

Inactivated November 1944

Assignments:

• Newfoundland Base Command, Winter 1943

References

 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, Archived 13 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson AFB, CO (1980)

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