770th Radar Squadron

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.

770th Radar Squadron
Emblem of the 770th Radar Squadron
Active1950-1979
CountryUnited States
Branch United States Air Force
TypeGeneral Radar Surveillance

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

Stations

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

    • Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, 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, US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).

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