770th_Radar_Squadron

770th Radar Squadron

770th Radar Squadron

Military unit

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.

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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

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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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