St. Bride's Radar Station | |
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Part of United States General Surveillance Radar | |
Newfoundland | |
Coordinates | 46°55′54.7″N054°10′49.2″W / 46.931861°N 54.180333°W |
Type | Radar Station |
Code | Trio |
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 |
St. Bride's Radar Station 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 Naval Station Argentia to RCAF Torbay and into the Atlantic Ocean. [3] It was located in St. Bride's, 135 kilometres (84 mi) southwest of St. John's. [4] It was closed in 1945.
The site was established in 1942 as a United States Ground Radar Early Warning Station, funded by the United States Army, [5] which stationed the 685th Air Warning Squadron on the site under operational control of Newfoundland Base Command at Pepperrell Air Force Base. [6] [7] Fifty-two members (three officers and 49 enlisted men) of the 685th were assigned to St Bride's. It operated an SCR-271 manned early-warning radar with information sent by radio to a plotting center at Pepperrell AFB to track aircraft. St Bride's was the third of a chain of four stations around the Newfoundland coast and was accordingly given the radio code name of "Trio". [8] The station was assigned to Royal Canadian Air Force on 1 November 1944, and was given designation "No 41 RU". The RCAF operated the station until 7 October 1945.
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This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency.