Melville Air Station - Labrador, Canada
641st AC&W Squadron/U.S.A.F./C.A.F
Photos - Page 5

Welcome to Melville  Air Station!  Take a website tour of the 641st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron starting at  the home page, or view these support photos from the photo pages.  This is page 5!

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27) Melville AFS.

28) Melville AFS barracks.

29) Snow drifts against Melville AFS barracks.

30) The road to Melville from Goose Air Base.

31) Melville AFS radar.

32) Aircraft over Melville apparently making a landing approach to Goose Air Base.

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The following photos are courtesy of Harry Oberman.  Here are his comments:

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32a) "This is a picture of the road going from Goose AFB up to the Melville site. This gravel road was maintained by the RCAF/DOT etc.  They even had a swivel snow blower truck to clear snow off the road.  The odd time the Bell staff going to our Tropo site took a Bell Canada Line truck which had a V-Plow in the front to help clean our portion of the road which split off from the side road to 641st which was to the left and our road was to the right. Normally the Bell Tel. mechanic did the cleaning.  By the way some times the road in winter to the 641st was one way and you had to use the field phone that was on a stand by the road to call up to MP to make sure no one else was on the road. There was a 4-wheel drive BUS that went from 641st to Goose AFB. It was a school type Bus body put onto a 4 wheel drive chassis. This picture  is not mine but from someone  else who posted it on the internet. My pictures/slides where destroyed in error though I still have a few BW ones around. I am still in contact with one of the Bell staff who worked with me at the Bell Tropo site." - Harry Oberman

*32b) "Here is a photo of myself on the Roof of the Bell Tropo near 641st Sqdn. at Goose Bay.  We were just below them on the hill.  Photo taken year 1960.   We carried all the commnication traffic from the Pole vault Tropo site at the 641st Sqdn.  We also had the BMEWS system at our site receiving traffic from England via Thule, Greenland.  By the way,  I still  have my hair but is is grey/white."

*32c)  Bell  Tropo Site.