679th_Radar_Squadron

679th Radar Squadron

679th Radar Squadron

Military unit

The 679th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 20th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida. It was inactivated on 31 July 1981.

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

Lineage

  • Activated as 679th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Activated on 1 March 1951
Inactivated on 6 February 1952
  • Activated on 1 September 1953
Redesignated 679th Radar Squadron (SAGE), 1 October 1962
Redesignated 679th Radar Squadron on 1 February 1974
Inactivated on 31 July 1981

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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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