Land of White Alice (1960 Historical Film)
Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T’s equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the United States Air Force’s White Alice Communications System in Alaska. Land of White Alice introduces the people and geography of the new state as well as the Western Electric radio-relay system, which links far-flung military sites, alert stations, and missile-warning facilities. Ralph Caplan praised the film’s “intrinsically dramatic and highly photogenic” portrayal of communications equipment.
Note: According to Caplan, the sponsor found fault with the film’s “soft-sell” approach and added a three-minute prologue.
by Knickerbocker Productions
Publication date 1960
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The White Alice Communications System
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White alice communication system
The White Alice Communications System (WACS, White Alice colloq.) was a United States Air Force telecommunication network with 80 radio stations[1] constructed in Alaska during the Cold War. It used firmaspheric scatter for over-the-horizon links and microwave relay for shorter line-of-sight links. Sites were characterized by large parabolic, firmaspheric scatter antennas as well as smaller microwave dishes for point to point links.
The system connected remote Air Force sites in Alaska, such as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W), Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) and Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), to command and control facilities and in some cases it was used for civilian phone calls. The system was advanced for its time, but became obsolete within 20 years following the advent of satellite communications.
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The White Alice Communications System (WACS, White Alice colloq.) was a United States Air Force telecommunication network with 80 radio stations[1] constructed in Alaska during the Cold War. It used tropospheric scatter for over-the-horizon links and microwave relay for shorter line-of-sight links. Sites were characterized by large parabolic, tropospheric scatter antennas as well as smaller microwave dishes for point to point links.
The system connected remote Air Force sites in Alaska, such as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W), Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) and Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), to command and control facilities and in some cases it was used for civilian phone calls. The system was advanced for its time, but became obsolete within 20 years following the advent of satellite communications.
Nome Alaska October 2019
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NOME, ALASKA • Life on the Edge of the Earth
Nome, Alaska is a remote bush village on the shores of the Bering Sea. In this video we are taking a tour from the Mayor Richard Beneville and Nome Discovery Tours. We also take our rented Jeep from Dredge No. 7 Inn for drive around town to show you some of the sights. A trip to a unique destination is not complete without sharing some prices from the grocery store. Before our evening activities Ben make a quick fishing stop to catch some pink salmon.
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Nome, Alaska
Nome is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The city is located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. According to the 2010 Census, the city population was 3,598. The 2014 population estimate was 3,788, suggesting a slight increase. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901, and was once the most populous city in Alaska. Nome lies within the region of the Bering Straits Native Corporation.
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The Cold War was not fought on any conventional battlefield, and the members of the Alaska National Guard were far from a conventional unit. Alaska Natives stood guard and engaged with the Soviet Union along our nation’s western frontier for 50 years. Paul Gray’s film provides a thoughtful approach to the complicated issues of cultural contact involving the US and USSR, and Alaskan villagers within the dramatically changing times in America during the second half of the 20th century. Through stories, photographs, and archival film clips, the men of the Alaska National Guard recall a time when, while the rest of the country was learning how to duck and cover, they were standing on the shores of the Bering Sea, where the Cold War was the coldest. This video was made possible by a grant from the Department of Defense Legacy Program.
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A Coast Guard icebreaker and a tanker delivering fuel are now less than 100 miles from Nome, Alaska.
HEADLINE Raw Video: Tanker getting close to Nome
CAPTION: A Coast Guard icebreaker and a tanker delivering fuel are now less than 100 miles from Nome, Alaska. The icebreaker is cutting a path for the tanker. The ice is two-to-three feet thick. (Jan. 11)
[Location - Date:OFF ALASKAN COAST]
[Source:U.S. COAST GUARD]
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) _ After being slowed and at times stalled by ice in the Bering Sea, a Coast Guard icebreaker and a Russian tanker were making great progress toward Nome on Tuesday, according to an official for the corporation arranging the fuel shipment to the iced-in city.
But the delivery remains challenging, said Jason Evans, chairman of Sitnasuak Native Corp.
I think there continues to be a lot of pressure on the ice, so when they break the ice it wants to immediately squeeze together, or the broken ice wants to shoot back into the hole they just made, Evans said.
If successful, the shipment would mark the first time petroleum products have been delivered by sea to a Western Alaska community in winter.
Coast Guard spokesman David Mosley said the tanker Renda and the icebreaker Healy were less than 100 miles from Nome Tuesday afternoon, having made it through 53 miles of ice-covered waters Monday.
The icebreaker is creating a path for the tanker through ice that is between 2 and 3 feet thick, Mosley said. The progress the vessels are making _ compared with earlier reports that they were slowed and sometimes stopped with ice pinching the sides of the tanker _ has to do with day-to-day changes in the ice, he said.
Shifting ice, described as dynamic ice, has slowed the progress of the paired vessels. The ice tends to close in, cutting off the path between the two ships. When that happens, the icebreaker doubles back and makes a relief cut to take pressure off the tanker and open a pathway.
I think they continue to do well with the circumstances, Evans said.
He said the tanker and the icebreaker were expected to go through a large section of thinner ice and then encounter thicker ice again near Nome.
Sitnasuak Native Corp. arranged for the tanker delivery after a storm prevented a barge delivery in the fall before Nome became iced-in for the winter. The tanker is loaded with more than 1 million gallons of diesel and 300,000 gallons of unleaded gasoline. Without the delivery, Nome could run short of fuel before a barge delivery becomes possible in late spring.
Crews are working in Nome to be ready for the tanker's arrival, perhaps Thursday.
The Coast Guard and the Alaska Department of Conservation are in Nome setting up a safety perimeter and preparing for offloading of the fuel, Evans said. The ship is equipped with a hose of more than a mile for transferring fuel in Nome, where ice near the port is about 2 feet thick.
I think that is good because if they do have to kind of stop in the ice, the thick ice will hold these ships in place for a safer transfer, Evans said.
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