668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron explained

Unit Name:	668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Dates:	1949–1961
Country:	United States
Type:	General 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.

Lineage

• Established as 668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

Activated on 8 December 1949

Discontinued and inactivated on 1 September 1961

Assignments

• 542d Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 8 December 1949
• 28th Air Division, 6 February 1952
• San Francisco Air Defense Sector, 1 July 1960 – 1 September 1961

Stations

• Hamilton AFB, California, 8 December 1949
• Mather AFB, California, 10 January 1951 – 1 September 1961

References

• Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 – 1980, http://www.usafpatches.com/pubs/handbookofadcorg.pdf 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, http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bn/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA331231 US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).