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| | Atlantic Barrier |
 | | “Argentia Approach, Navy 1313, 25 miles southeast, requesting your present weather.” “Navy 1313, this is Argentia Approach, present weather 200 feet obscured; visibility one-half mile in blowing snow; wind south southwest 28, gusts to 45 knots; duty runway 25 GCA standing by on channel 17.” |
 | | Its speed, altitude, bearing and exact position are quickly calculated and the data is immediately relayed to either one of two operational control centers. |
 | | One center is at Atlantic Fleet Headquarters, Norfolk, Va.; the other at Argentia, Newfoundland—the western anchor and nerve center of this radar blanket. |
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