In the 1950's & '60s Midway was home to crews who flew radar aircraft in this Cold War detection line
It was set up to detect incoming Soviet bombers during the Cold 
War, and ... late 1950s, the DEW Line consisted of a string of continental defence 
radar .... All of the installations flew both the Canadian and US flags until they 
were... [DOC] [TLE] Searching the Skies: The Legacy of the United States Cold War ... [PAR] Such an attack would have been detected early by a string of radar stations that 
stretched ... During the late 1940s and 1950s, funding for radars, command and 
control centers, ... and offensive strategies before and during the early years of 
the Cold War.