Plan of Operations, Cathedral and Rabbit Creek Site Plans, 1956-1961.

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Plan of Operations, Cathedral and Rabbit Creek Site Plans, 1956-1961.

The collection contains the White Alice Network operations plan, prepared by the Western Electric Company; and sets of as-built drawings of the Cathdral BMEWS site and the Rabbit Creek WACS site.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7487318

OCLC Western Training, W7L

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