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661st Radar Squadron

Field	Value
unit_name	661st Radar Squadron
image	661st Radar Squadron - Emblem.png
image_size	250
caption	Emblem of the 671st Radar Squadron
dates	1949-1974
country	United States
branch	United States Air Force
type	General Radar Surveillance

The 661st Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 23d Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Selfridge Air Force Base, Michigan. It was inactivated on 1 July 1974.

The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of the United States.

Lineage

Activated as 661st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, 5 December 1949 : Redesignated 661st Radar Squadron (SAGE), 1 September 1959 : Redesignated 661st Radar Squadron, 1 February 1974 : Inactivated on 1 July 1974

Assignments

541st Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 1 January 1951
30th Air Division, 6 February 1952
4708th Defense Wing, 16 February 1953
30th Air Division, 8 July 1956
Detroit Air Defense Sector, 1 April 1959
34th Air Division, 1 April 1966
29th Air Division, 14 November 1969
23d Air Division, 19 November 1969 - 1 July 1974

Stations

Selfridge AFB, Michigan, 5 December 1949 - 1 July 1974

References

Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, http://www.usafpatches.com/pubs/handbookofadcorg.pdf Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson AFB, CO (1980).
Winkler, David F. & Webster, Julie L., Searching the Skies, The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program, http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bn/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA331231 US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).

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