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770th Radar Squadron

Field	Value
unit_name	770th Radar Squadron
image	770th Radar Squadron - Emblem.png
image_size	250
caption	Emblem of the 770th Radar Squadron
dates	1950-1979
country	United States
branch
type	General Radar Surveillance

The 770th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 20th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. It was inactivated on 1 January 1980.

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

Lineage

Constituted as the 770th Aircraft Warning and Control Squadron on 14 November 1950 : Activated on 27 November 1950 : Redesignated as the 770th Radar Squadron (SAGE) on 1 October 1958 : Redesignated as the 770th Radar Squadron on 1 February 1974 : Inactivated on 1 January 1980

Assignments

503d Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 1 January 1951
26th Air Division, 6 February 1952
4710th Defense Wing, 16 February 1953
4709th Air Defense Wing, 1 March 1956
26th Air Division, 18 October 1956
New York Air Defense Sector, 8 January 1957
Washington Air Defense Sector, 1 October 1961
33d Air Division, 1 April 1966
20th Air Division, 19 November 1969 - 1 January 1980

Stations

Palermo AFS, New Jersey, 1 January 1951
Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, 1 October 1961 - 1 January 1980

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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