The 670th Radar Squadron is an inactive

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unit. It was last assigned to the

26th Air Division The 26th Air Division (26th AD) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Tactical Air Command, assigned to First Air Force, being stationed at March Air Force Base, California. It was inactiv ...

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, operating San Pedro Hill Air Force Station radars while posted at

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, 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 The 542d Aircraft Control and Warning Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 28th Air Division, stationed at Hamilton Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on 6 February 1952. This command and c ...

, 5 May 1950 * 544th Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 27 November 1950 *

27th Air Division The 27th Air Division was a United States Air Force numbered air division and the geographic Air Defense Command region controlled by the 27th AD. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command (ADC)'s Tenth Air Force, at Luke Air Force Bas ...

, 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 *

, 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

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

US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997). {{Aerospace Defense Command, state=collapsed Aerospace Defense Command units Military units and formations established in 1961 Military units and formations disestablished in 1976 Military units and formations of the United States in the Cold War Radar squadrons of the United States Air Force