[Milsurplus] AFN in the US

[Hubert Miller]

That is very interesting. I didn't know there were any in the continental USA. I wonder what the power of this station was.
There was an Army training base out here in western Oregon,  Camp Adair, which at its peak had a population of tens of thousands; I think it was actually Oregon's "second largest city", but even with that size, I
have not found any evidence there was any kind of broadcast station there. ( But it started at only about 7 miles outside of Corvallis, Oregon, which did have radio stations. )

Many years ago, I walked the halls of an Army hospital at Ft. Lawton, WA, with a transistor radio trying to find out where station "KURE" was. These were the one-story long, wooden buildings with numerous rooms off the
walk-through hallway, almost a kind of "shotgun shack" construction, and these buildings were all linked together, so you could walk for a long time. Some of you will remember that style construction. What I eventually
concluded was that "KURE" was a "wired broadcast" operation. I was a youngster, and didn't know much. I also recall out at a very small town on the Olympic Peninsula, trying to figure out where "LaPush Radio" was
located. I finally figured out that actually  meant "LaPush Radio Repair".

Camp Adair is now gone except for just a few buildings and a natural wetlands park.
Fort Lewis, right in Seattle, became a park. Still has a large radar installation, Army cemetery, and a couple buildings.
-Hue

>Subject: [Milsurplus] AFN in the US

Does anyone have any information of AFN (Armed Forces Network) operations Stateside during WWII. There is plenty of info available for overseas ops in Europe and N. Africa  but information on  US station operation is scarce. Evidently there was a station in operation at Ft. Dix under the call sign WDIX.
Breck, k4che

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