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668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

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668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Emblem of the 668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Active1949–1961
CountryUnited States
Branch United States Air Force
TypeGeneral Radar Surveillance

The 668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the San Francisco Air Defense Sector, Air Defense Command, stationed at Mather Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on 1 September 1961.

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

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  • Established as 668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Activated on 8 December 1949
Discontinued and inactivated on 1 September 1961

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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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