The 679th Radar Squadron is an inactive

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unit. It was last assigned to the 20th Air Division,

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, stationed at

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, Florida. It was inactivated on 31 July 1981. The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of the United States.

Lineage

* Activated as 679th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Activated on 1 March 1951 : Inactivated on 6 February 1952 * Activated on 1 September 1953 : Redesignated 679th Radar Squadron (SAGE), 1 October 1962 : Redesignated 679th Radar Squadron on 1 February 1974 : Inactivated on 31 July 1981 Assignments * 545th Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 1 March 1951 – 6 February 1952 * 32d Air Division, 1 September 1953 * 35th Air Division, 24 December 1953 * 32d Air Division, 15 November 1958 * Montgomery Air Defense Sector, 1 July 1961 * 32d Air Division, 1 April 1966 * 33d Air Division, 14 November 1969 * 20th Air Division, 19 November 1969 – 31 July 1981 Stations * Great Falls AFB, MT, 1 March 1951 – 6 February 1952 * Dow AFB, ME, 1 September 1953 *

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, GA, 24 December 1953 *

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, FL, 1 July 1957 – 31 July 1981

References

* 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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{{Use dmy dates, date=June 2017 Radar squadrons of the United States Air Force Aerospace Defense Command units