[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 14944]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 HISTORY OF THE RADAR SITES OF ICELAND

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                            HON. JOE WILSON

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 30, 2010

  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, during the Cold War, 
Iceland served as a listening station with four radar sites that were 
manned by America's brave men and women in uniform to deter a Soviet 
bomber nuclear attack on America. An organization in Chapin, South 
Carolina, called the Iceland Reunion at www.usradarsitesiceland.com, is 
dedicated to the memory of all of the men and women who served on these 
U.S. radar sites. The mission of this organization, chaired by Retired 
Air Force Master Sergeant William A. Chick, is to preserve and document 
the history of the air defense of Iceland and the North Atlantic 
passage to the United States and the Free World.
  Mr. Chick encourages those interested in preserving Cold War history 
to visit their informational website and also read, ``The History of 
the radar sites of Iceland'' by Gerald H. Tonnell which is the 
unofficial history of fifty years of the strategic radar sites which 
successfully preserved peace and promoted freedom in the struggle 
between democracy and communism with the ultimate victory over 
communism.
  I thank Mr. Chick and other members who are working hard to preserve 
the memory and the mission of those military surveillance operators who 
served our great nation. America will always cherish the service of 
these patriots and the hosting by the people of our longtime NATO ally 
Iceland.

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