670th Radar Squadron explained

Unit Name:	670th Radar Squadron 1961-1974 Feb 1: 670th Radar Squadron (SAGE) 1950-1961 Apr 1: 670th AC&W Squadron
Dates:	1950 May 5-1976 April 1
Country:	United States
Type:	General Radar Surveillance

The 670th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 26th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, operating San Pedro Hill Air Force Station radars while posted at Fort MacArthur, California. It was inactivated on 1 April 1976.

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

Lineage

Assignments

• 542d Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 5 May 1950
• 544th Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 27 November 1950
• 27th Air Division, 6 February 1952
• Los Angeles Air Defense Sector, 1 October 1959
• 27th Air Division, 1 April 1966
• 26th Air Division, 19 November 1969 – 1 April 1976

Stations

• Camp Cooke, California, 5 May 1950
• San Clemente Island AFS, California, 1 February 1952
• Fort MacArthur, California, April 1961-1 April 1976

References

• Mueller, Robert, Air Force Bases, Vol. I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982, http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330255/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-026.pdf Office of Air Force History, Washington DC (1989) .
• 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).