688th_Aircraft_Control_and_Warning_Squadron

688th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

688th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

Military unit

The 688th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 31st Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Amarillo Air Force Base, Texas. It was inactivated on 8 September 1968.

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

Lineage

  • Activated as 688th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Activated on 1 October 1953
Discontinued and inactivated on 8 September 1968

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References

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

    • Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, Archived 23 November 2006 at the Wayback Machine 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, [dead link] US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).
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