On This Day in Telephone History November 14TH 1961 - Western Electric officially turned over the DEW Line to the U. S. Air Force. The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the North Coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska, in addition to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland.

On This Day in Telephone History November 14TH 1961

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On This Day in Telephone History November 14TH 1961 – Western Electric officially turned over the DEW Line to the U.S. Air Force. The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the North Coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska, in addition to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland.

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