Searchlights #1 and #2
Ugadaga Head, HD Dutch Harbor
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Two portable type searchlights were installed atop Ugadaga Head in December of 1943. Each searchlight was supplied with a shelter for the light, a separate power plant shelter and a Distant Electrical Control station, or DEC. The shelters and power plants were made of corrugated 'elephant' steel, while the DECs were of wood frame construction.

Today, the #1 searchlight shelter and power plant are in reasonable shape, although the DEC has collapsed. The #2 shelter in still in evidence, but the power plant is gone and a quick search didn't reveal the DEC.

Also located at Ugadaga Head is HDOP 1 and some old Army housing.



Searchlight #1


Looking at the shelter and power plant from the DEC.
July 2004
The DEC site.
July 2004
The power plant, looking north.
July 2004
Inside the power plant.
July 2004
Looking northeast at the shelter.
July 2004
The shelter from the northwest.
July 2004
The front of the shelter, power plant on left.
July 2004
The back room of the shelter.
July 2004
Looking out of the back room of the shelter.
July 2004



Searchlight #2


Looking down at the shelter.
July 2004
The front of the shelter.
July 2004
Looking into the shelter.
July 2004
Looking out of the shelter.
July 2004
Site of the power plant, only an earthen cut remains.
July 2004






Documents
Form 4, Searchlight #1August 1, 1944
Form 4, Searchlight #2August 1, 1944
Map of area  Note: modified from the original 
Field of illumination mapDecember 10, 1944



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