The 33rd Air Division (33d AD) is an inactive

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organization. Its last assignment was with

Air Defense Command Aerospace Defense Command was a major command (military formation), command of the United States Air Force, responsible for air defense of the continental United States. It was activated in 1968 and disbanded in 1980. Its predecessor, Air De ...

, assigned to

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, being stationed at

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, Virginia. It was inactivated on 19 November 1969.

History

The 33d Air Division had air defense responsibility for an area encompassing Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, and parts of Kansas, Missouri, and Mississippi in March 1951. It was inactivated in June 1961. 33dAD - Map - 1966-1959

Activated again in 1966, replacing the

Washington Air Defense Sector The Washington Air Defense Sector (WaADS) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with the Air Defense Command (ADC) 26th Air Division, being stationed at Fort Lee Air Force Station (AFS), Virginia. It ...

with its area changed to cover parts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Assumed additional designation of 33d NORAD Region after activation of the NORAD Combat Operations Center at the

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, Colorado and reporting was transferred to

NORAD North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD ; , CDAAN), known until March 1981 as the North American Air Defense Command, is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and pr ...

from ADC at

Ent Air Force Base Ent Air Force Base was a United States Air Force base located in the Knob Hill neighborhood of Colorado Springs, Colorado. A tent city, established in 1943 during construction of the base, was initially commanded by Major General Uzal Girar ...

in April 1966. The division supervised, administered, and trained its assigned units and, in doing so, participated in numerous live and simulated exercises.

Lineage

* Established as the 33 Air Division (Defense) on 5 March 1951 : Activated on 19 March 1951 : Inactivated on 1 February 1952 * Organized on 1 February 1952 : Redesignated 33 Air Division (SAGE) on 1 January 1960 : Discontinued, and inactivated, on 1 July 1961 * Redesignated 33 Air Division and activated on 20 January 1966 (not organized) : Organized on 1 April 1966 : Inactivated on 19 November 1969

Assignments

* Air Defense Command :

Eastern Air Defense Force The Eastern Air Defense Force (EADF) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command being stationed at Stewart Air Force Base, New York. It was inactivated on 1 July 1960. History EADF wa ...

19 March – 20 May 1951 :

Central Air Defense Force The Central Air Defense Force (CADF) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command being stationed at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Missouri. It was inactivated on 1 July 1960. History ...

, 20 May 1951 – 1 January 1960 * Air Defense Command, 1 January 1960 – 1 July 1961 * Air Defense Command, 20 January 1966 (not organized) :

, 1 April 1966 – 19 November 1969

Stations

Tinker Air Force Base Tinker Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force base, with tenant U.S. Navy and other Department of Defense missions, located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, adjacent to Del City and Midwest City. The ba ...

, Oklahoma 19 March 1951 – 8 May 1956 *

Oklahoma City Air Force Station Oklahoma City Air Force Station (ADC ID: P-52, NORAD-ID: Z-52) is a closed Cold War United States Air Force air defense and communications-electronics headquarters and radar station. It was located east-southeast of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, ju ...

, Oklahoma, 8 May 1956 *

Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base Richards-Gebaur Memorial Airport is a former airport that operated alongside Richards-Gebaur Air Reserve Station (also Richards-Gebaur Air Force Station) until the base's closure in 1994, and until it was closed in 1999. Formerly, it was oper ...

, Missouri, 1 January 1960 – 1 July 1961 *

, Virginia 19 April 1966 – 19 November 1969

Components

Sectors

Albuquerque Air Defense Sector The Albuquerque Air Defense Sector (AADS) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. It was briefly active between 1 January and 1 November 1960, assigned to the 33d Air Division at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The sector was r ...

: 1 January – 1 November 1960 :

Kirtland Air Force Base Kirtland Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base. It is located in the southeast quadrant of the Albuquerque, New Mexico, urban area, adjacent to the Albuquerque International Sunport. The base was named for the early Army aviator C ...

, New Mexico *

Kansas City Air Defense Sector The Kansas City Air Defense Sector (KCADS) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with the Air Defense Command 29th Air Division, being stationed at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Missouri. It was inact ...

: 1 January 1960 – 1 July 1961 : Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Missouri *

Oklahoma City Air Defense Sector The Oklahoma City Air Defense Sector (OCADS) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with the Air Defense Command's 29th Air Division at Oklahoma City Air Force Station, Oklahoma. History Oklahoma City A ...

: 1 January 1960 – 1 July 1961 : Oklahoma City Air Force Base, Oklahoma *

Sioux City Air Defense Sector The Sioux City Air Defense Sector (SCADS) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with the Air Defense Command 29th Air Division, being stationed at Sioux City Air Force Station, Iowa. History SCADS was ...

: 1 January 1960 – 1 July 1961 :

Sioux City Municipal Airport Sioux Gateway Airport , also known as Brigadier General Bud Day Field, is a public and military use airport in Woodbury County, Iowa, United States. It is located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) south of the central business distri ...

, Iowa

Groups

328th Fighter Group 3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies ...

: 18 August 1955 – 1 March 1956 : Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Missouri *

546th Aircraft Control and Warning Group The 546th Aircraft Control and Warning Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was assigned to the 33d Air Division, stationed at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. It was inactivated on 4 June 1951. This command and control organiz ...

: Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, 19 March-4 June 1951 *

4676th Air Defense Group The 4676th Air Defense Group is a discontinued United States Air Force (USAF) organization. Its last assignment was with the 33d Air Division of Air Defense Command (ADC) at Grandview Air Force Base, Missouri, where it was discontinued in 1955. ...

: 2 March 1954 – 18 August 1955 : Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Missouri

Interceptor squadrons

48th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron The 48th Flying Training Squadron is part of the 14th Flying Training Wing based at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. It operates T-1 Jayhawk aircraft conducting flight training. The squadron is one of the oldest in the Air Force, being for ...

: 1 April 1966 – 19 November 1969 :

Langley Air Force Base Langley Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Hampton, Virginia, adjacent to Newport News. It was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the entry of the United States into World War I in April 1 ...

, Virginia *

85th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron The 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron is part of the 53d Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. It conducts testing and evaluation for the F-15 Eagle, F-15E Strike Eagle, and F-16 Fighting Falcon airframes. Mission The 85th Test and Evaluation ...

: 1 November 1952 – 1 March 1956 :

Scott Air Force Base Scott Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in St. Clair County, Illinois, near Belleville and O'Fallon, east-southeast of downtown St. Louis. Originally Scott Field, it was one of 32 Air Service training camps established af ...

, Illinois *

95th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron The 95th Fighter Squadron (95th FS), nicknamed ''the Boneheads'', is an active squadron of the United States Air Force. Last activated on 15 June 2023 as a Lockheed Martin F-35 squadron stationed at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. Previously th ...

: 1 December 1967 – 19 November 1969 :

Dover Air Force Base Dover Air Force Base or Dover AFB is a United States Air Force (USAF) base under the operational control of Air Mobility Command (AMC), located southeast of the city of Dover, Delaware. The 436th Airlift Wing is the host wing, and runs the bu ...

, Delaware *

113th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron The 113th Air Support Operations Squadron is a unit of the Indiana Air National Guard 181st Intelligence Wing located at Terre Haute Air National Guard Base (Hulman Field), Indiana. The squadron is a descendant organization of the World War I 1 ...

: 1 April – 1 November 1952 : Scott Air Force Base, IllinoisFederalized

Indiana Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...

Air National Guard The Air National Guard (ANG), also known as the Air Guard, is a Reserve components of the United States Armed Forces, federal military reserve force of the United States Air Force, as well as the air militia (United States), militia of each U.S. ...

326th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron The 326th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 328th Fighter Wing at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Missouri, where it was inactivated on 2 January 1967. History World Wa ...

: 18 December 1953 – 2 March 1954 :

Fairfax Field Fairfax Field was a wartime (WWII) facility of the United States Army Air Forces and later, the United States Air Force. The installation was north of Kansas City, Kansas. Used as a pre-war Naval Air Station, the United States Army Air Force ...

, Kansas *

331st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron The 331st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command at Webb Air Force Base, Texas, where it was inactivated on 1 March 1967. During World War II the squadron (avia ...

: 15 August 1958 – 1 January 1960 :

Webb Air Force Base Webb Air Force Base , previously named Big Spring Air Force Base, was a United States Air Force facility of the Air Training Command that operated from 1951 to 1977 in West Texas within the current city limits of Big Spring. Webb AFB was a maj ...

, Texas * 332d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron: 10 July 1959 – 1 January 1960 :

England Air Force Base England Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base in Louisiana, located northwest of Alexandria and about northwest of New Orleans. Originally known as Alexandria Army Air Base, on 23 June 1955 the facility was renamed England A ...

, Louisiana *

444th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron The 444th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the Washington Air Defense Sector stationed at Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, where it was inactivated on 30 September ...

: 1 April 1966 – 30 September 1968 :

Charleston Air Force Base Charleston Air Force Base is a United States military facility located in the City of North Charleston, South Carolina. The facility is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force's 628th Air Base Wing (628 ABW), a subordinate elem ...

, South Carolina

Missile squadrons

22d Air Defense Missile Squadron The 22d Air Defense Missile Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 20th Air Division of Aerospace Defense Command, stationed near Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, where it was inactivated on 31 October ...

(BOMARC): 1 April 1966 – 19 November 1969 : Langley Air Force Base, Virginia

Radar squadrons

* 632d Radar Squadron :

Roanoke Rapids Air Force Station Roanoke Rapids Air Force Station (ADC ID: M-117 NORAD ID: Z-117) was a United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is southwest of Gaston, North Carolina, near the closed Halifax County Airport. It was closed in 1978. Histo ...

, North Carolina, 1 April 1966 – 19 November 1969 * 644th Radar Squadron :

Richmond Air Force Station Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, a city in the United States * Richmond, London, a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town ...

, Florida, 14–19 November 1969 *

645th Radar Squadron The 645th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 20th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida. It was inactivated on 1 April 1976. The unit was a Gener ...

Patrick Air Force Base Patrick may refer to: *Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name * Patrick (surname), list of people with this name People *Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint * Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick ...

, Florida, 14–19 November 1969 * 649th Radar Squadron :

Bedford Air Force Station Bedford Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located north of Bedford, Virginia. It was closed in 1975. History Bedford AFS was established by Air Defense Command in 1954 as part ...

, Virginia, 1 April 1966 – 19 November 1969 * 657th Radar Squadron :

Houma Air Force Station Houma Air Force Station (ADC ID: M-126 NORAD ID: Z-126) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located southeast Houma, Louisiana. It was closed in 1970. History Houma Air Force Station was establishe ...

, Louisiana, 14–19 November 1969 * 662d Radar Squadron :

Oakdale Air Force Station Oakdale Air Force Station (ADC ID: RP-62, NORAD ID: Z-62) is a United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located east of the Pittsburgh suburb of Oakdale, Pennsylvania. It was closed in 1969. History Oakdale Air Forc ...

, Pennsylvania, 16 September-31 December 1969 *

671st Radar Squadron The 671st Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 20th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Naval Air Station Key West, Florida. It was last active in 1980. The unit was a Genera ...

: Key West Naval Air Station, Florida, 14–19 November 1969 * 678th Radar Squadron :

Tyndall Air Force Base Tyndall Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base located east of Panama City, Florida. The base was named in honor of World War I pilot 1st Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall. The base operating unit and host wing is the 325th Fighter Wing (3 ...

, Florida, 14–19 November 1969 *

679th Radar Squadron The 679th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 20th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida. It was inactivated on 31 July 1981. The unit w ...

: Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Florida, 14–19 November 1969 * 680th Radar Squadron :

Palermo Air Force Station Palermo Air Force Station (ADC ID: P-54, NORAD ID: Z-54) is a closed United States Air Force (USAF) General Surveillance Radar station. It was located in Palermo, New Jersey, north of Sea Isle City, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United Sta ...

, New Jersey, 1 April 1968 – 19 November 1969 *

693d Radar Squadron The 693d Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 20th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Dauphin Island Air Force Station, Alabama. It was inactivated on 30 September 1970. The un ...

Dauphin Island Air Force Station Dauphin Island Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located east of Dauphin Island, Alabama, near historic Fort Gaines (Alabama). It was closed in 1980. Beginning in September 198 ...

, Alabama, 14–19 November 1969 * 701st Radar Squadron : Fort Fisher Air Force Station, North Carolina, 1 April 1966 – 19 November 1969 *

702d Radar Squadron The 702d Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 20th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Savannah Air Force Station, Georgia. It was inactivated on 5 June 1979. The unit was a Ge ...

Hunter Air Force Base Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to obtain the animal's body for meat and useful animal products (fur/ hide, bone/tusks, horn ...

, Georgia, 14–19 November 1969 * 725th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Walnut Ridge Air Force Station, Arkansas, 8 April 1955 – 1 March 1956 *

738th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron The 738th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 30th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Olathe Air Force Station, Kansas. It was inactivated on 8 September 1968. The unit was a ...

Olathe Air Force Station Olathe Air Force Station is a former United States Air Force radar station that was located in Gardner, Kansas. It was located next to Naval Air Station Olathe, now the grounds of New Century AirCenter. History In 1950 the United States Air ...

, Kansas, 1 February 1953 – 1 March 1956 * 770th Radar Squadron :

Fort George G. Meade Fort George G. Meade is a United States Army installation located in Maryland, that includes the Defense Information School, the Defense Media Activity, the United States Army Field Band, and the headquarters of United States Cyber Command, th ...

, Maryland, 1 April 1966 – 19 November 1969 * 790th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron :

Kirksville Air Force Station Kirksville Air Force Station (ADC ID: P-64, NORAD ID: Z-64) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located north of Kirksville, Missouri. It was closed by the Air Force in 1968. Today the radar site ...

, Missouri, 6 February 1952 – 1 March 1956 * 792d Radar Squadron :

North Charleston Air Force Station North Charleston Air Force Station (ADC ID: M-113 NORAD ID: Z-113) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located in the City of North Charleston, South Carolina. It was closed in 1980. History North ...

, South Carolina, 1 April 1966 – 19 November 1969 * 793d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron :

Hutchinson Air Force Station Hutchinson Air Force Station (ADC ID: P-47, NORAD ID: Z-47) is a closed United States Air Force station. It is located west-southwest of Yoder, Kansas. It was closed for all military use in 1968. It was operated alongside Hutchinson Air Na ...

, Kansas, 6 February 1952 – 1 March 1956 * 810th Radar Squadron : Winston-Salem Air Force Station, North Carolina, 1 April 1966 – 19 November 1969 * 861st Radar Squadron :

Aiken Air Force Station Aiken Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located north-northeast of Aiken, South Carolina. It was closed in 1975. During World War II, the site was originally constructed by the ...

, South Carolina, 14–19 November 1969

References

Notes

Bibliography

* * * "ADCOM's Fighter Interceptor Squadrons". ''The Interceptor'' (January 1979) Aerospace Defense Command, (Volume 21, Number 1) {{Aerospace Defense Command, state=collapsed Aerospace Defense Command units

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1951 establishments in Oklahoma 1961 disestablishments in Missouri 1966 establishments in Virginia 1969 disestablishments in Virginia