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864th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

Former US Air Force unit

Field	Value
unit_name	864th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
image	864th Radar Squadron - Emblem.png
image_size	250
caption	Emblem of the 864th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
dates	1955-1963
country	United States
branch
type	General Radar Surveillance

The 864th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the Phoenix Air Defense Sector, Air Defense Command, stationed at Yuma Air Force Station, Arizona. It was inactivated on 1 August 1963.

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

Lineage

Constituted as the 864th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Activated on 8 August 1955 : Redesignated 864th Radar Squadron (SAGE), 1 June 1962 : Redesignation retroactively revoked : Discontinued and inactivated on 1 August 1963

Assignments

27th Air Division, 8 August 1955
Los Angeles Air Defense Sector, 1 October 1959
Phoenix Air Defense Sector, 1 May 1961 – 1 August 1963

Stations

Yuma County Airport, Arizona, 8 August 1955 : Base redesignated Vincent AFB, 1 September 1956 : Station redesignated Yuma AFS, 20 July 1962 – 1 August 1963

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).

References

Air Defense Command Special Order G-4, 15 October 1962

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