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755th Radar Squadron

Field	Value
unit_name	755th Radar Squadron
image	755th Radar Squadron - Emblem.png
image_size	250
caption	Emblem of the 755th Radar Squadron
dates	1951-1969
country	United States
branch	United States Air Force
type	General Radar Surveillance

The 755th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 34th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Arlington Heights Air Force Station, Illinois. It was inactivated on 30 September 1969.

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

Lineage

Constituted as the 755th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron on 14 November 1950 : Activated on 27 November 1950 : Redesignated 755th Radar Squadron (SAGE), 15 October 1960 : Inactivated on 30 September 1969

Assignments

541st Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 27 November 1950
30th Air Division, 6 February 1952
4706th Defense Wing, 16 February 1953
37th Air Division, 8 July 1956
Chicago Air Defense Sector, 1 June 1959
20th Air Division, 1 April 1966
30th Air Division, 1 December 1967
34th Air Division, 1 July 1968 – 30 September 1969

Stations

Elkhorn, Wisconsin, 1 January 1951 : Site redesignated Williams Bay AFS, Wisconsin, 1 December 1953
Arlington Heights AFS, Illinois, 1 April 1960 - 30 September 1969

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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