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670th Radar Squadron

Inactive United States Air Force unit

Field	Value
unit_name	670th Radar Squadron
**1961-1974 Feb 1: 670th Radar Squadron (SAGE)
1950-1961 Apr 1: 670th AC&W Squadron**
image	670th Radar Squadron - Emblem.png
image_size	250
caption	Emblem of the 670th Radar Squadron
dates	1950 May 5-1976 April 1
country	United States
branch
type	General Radar Surveillance

1961-1974 Feb 1: 670th Radar Squadron (SAGE) 1950-1961 Apr 1: 670th AC&W Squadron The 670th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 26th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, operating San Pedro Hill Air Force Station radars while posted at Fort MacArthur, California. It was inactivated on 1 April 1976.

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

Lineage

Assignments

542d Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 5 May 1950
544th Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 27 November 1950
27th Air Division, 6 February 1952
Los Angeles Air Defense Sector, 1 October 1959
27th Air Division, 1 April 1966
26th Air Division, 19 November 1969 – 1 April 1976

Stations

Camp Cooke, California, 5 May 1950
San Clemente Island AFS, California, 1 February 1952
Fort MacArthur, California, April 1961-1 April 1976

References

Mueller, Robert, Air Force Bases, Vol. I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982, https://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330255/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-026.pdf Office of Air Force History, Washington DC (1989) .
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).

References

(31 December 1980). "A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980". Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center.

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