The 503d Aircraft Control and Warning Group (AC&WG) is an inactive

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unit. Its last assignment was with

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(ADC)'s

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. It was inactivated in 1952.

History

Activated as an ADC Aircraft Control and Warning Group, forming radar squadrons in the late 1940s and the early 1950s and deploying them around the New York, New Jersey area under

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and the 26th Air Division. On 16 April 1950, the reserve 563d Aircraft Control and Warning Group was activated as a Corollary unit at Roslyn, sharing the 503d's equipment and facilities. The 563d was called to active duty on 2 June 1951 and was inactivated, with its personnel used as fillers for the 503d.

Lineage

* Constituted as the 503d Aircraft Warning Group, 1 April 1948 * Activated on 1 April 1948 : Redesignated 503d Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 6 December 1949 : Inactivated on 6 February 1952 : Disbanded on 21 September 1984.

Assignments

, 16 November 1948 – 6 February 1952

Components

* 645th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron :

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, New York, 30 April 1948-1 January 1951 * 646th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron :

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, New Jersey, 1 June 1948-6 February 1952 * 647th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, 1 January 1951-6 February 1952 * 648th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron :

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, 1 January 1951-6 February 1952 *

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: Santini, New York, 1 January 1951-6 February 1952 * 770th Aircraft Warning and Control Squadron : Palermo AFS, New Jersey, 1 January 1951-6 February 1952 * 771st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Cape Charles AFS, Virginia, 1 January 1951-6 February 1952 * 772d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron :

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, 1 January 1951-6 February 1952 *

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: Camp Hero, New York, 1 June 1948-6 December 1949

Stations

* Fort Slocum (later, Slocum AFB), 1 April 1948 *

, New York, 1 January 1951 – 6 February 1952

References

*
Grant, C.L., The Development of Continental Air Defense to 1 September 1954, (1961), USAF Historical Study No. 126
* {{Aerospace Defense Command, state=autocollapse Air control groups of the United States Air Force Military units and formations disestablished in 1952