770th Radar Squadron explained

Unit Name:	770th Radar Squadron
Dates:	1950-1979
Country:	United States
Type:	General Radar Surveillance

The 770th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 20th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. It was inactivated on 1 January 1980.

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

Lineage

• Constituted as the 770th Aircraft Warning and Control Squadron on 14 November 1950

Activated on 27 November 1950

Redesignated as the 770th Radar Squadron (SAGE) on 1 October 1958

Redesignated as the 770th Radar Squadron on 1 February 1974

Inactivated on 1 January 1980

Assignments

• 503d Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 1 January 1951
• 26th Air Division, 6 February 1952
• 4710th Defense Wing, 16 February 1953
• 4709th Air Defense Wing, 1 March 1956
• 26th Air Division, 18 October 1956
• New York Air Defense Sector, 8 January 1957
• Washington Air Defense Sector, 1 October 1961
• 33d Air Division, 1 April 1966
• 20th Air Division, 19 November 1969 - 1 January 1980

Stations

• Palermo AFS, New Jersey, 1 January 1951
• Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, 1 October 1961 - 1 January 1980

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).