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661st Radar Squadron

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661st Radar Squadron
Emblem of the 671st Radar Squadron
Active1949-1974
CountryUnited States
BranchUnited States Air Force
TypeGeneral Radar Surveillance

The 661st Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 23d Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Selfridge Air Force Base, Michigan. It was inactivated on 1 July 1974.

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

Lineage

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  • Activated as 661st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, 5 December 1949
Redesignated 661st Radar Squadron (SAGE), 1 September 1959
Redesignated 661st Radar Squadron, 1 February 1974
Inactivated on 1 July 1974

Assignments

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Stations

References

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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, [1] 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, [2][dead link] US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).
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