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668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

Field	Value
unit_name	668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
image	668th Radar Squadron - Emblem.png
image_size	250
caption	Emblem of the 668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
dates	1949–1961
country	United States
branch
type	General Radar Surveillance

The 668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the San Francisco Air Defense Sector, Air Defense Command, stationed at Mather Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on 1 September 1961.

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

Lineage

Established as 668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Activated on 8 December 1949 : Discontinued and inactivated on 1 September 1961

Assignments

542d Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 8 December 1949
28th Air Division, 6 February 1952
San Francisco Air Defense Sector, 1 July 1960 – 1 September 1961

Stations

Hamilton AFB, California, 8 December 1949
Mather AFB, California, 10 January 1951 – 1 September 1961

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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