Kodiak Island Alaska World War II

Round Top Radar Site at Cape Chiniak

Introduction

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Photos by Curt Law, AL7LQ. Text and web page design by Joe Stevens

SCR-296A radar tower at Round Top, Cape Chiniak, Alaska. All photos taken 1998 July 18. The tower is in excellent condition. The following was still readable on the steel:

FOR S.P.O.
FORT GREELY KODIAK ALASKA
MKD. HOLD FOR FC PROJECT
FOR PROJECT RAD-9-148''
U.S.W.D.
CARNEGIE USA

This was a World War II radar installation. It is one of three SCR-296A installations near Kodiak. The others are at Long Island and Ft. Abercrombie. There was also an SCR-582 radar at Deer Point, Long Island, Kodiak.

Telephone cables from Round Top included a 101 pair 19 gauge cable 6550 or 7534 feet (?) to Miller Field and a 26 pair 19 gauge cable 7611 feet to Cape Greville.

The Tower

Detailed drawing of radar tower dated 9-1-45. 556Kb
left portion only shows tower elevation, 93Kb
title block of drawing 63Kb
wooden WATER TANK top disguise radome, 88Kb

Antenna rotor

This is on the ground directly beneath the tower.

	Quonset seen from the tower.
	Main rectangular metal radar equipment building.
	Loading dock
	Wooden water tower
	Main radar building as seen from the water tower
	This pile of timbers is all that remains of the Group No. 1 command and observation post. It was a 50-foot, single-level wooden tower completed 17 November 1943. This tower was equipped with an M1 DPF, class 4, and an SCR-828 FM radio to communicate with the plotting room near St. Peter's Head.

Radar page

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