The 770th Radar Squadron is an inactive

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unit. It was last assigned to the

20th Air Division The 20th Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Tactical Air Command at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida where it was inactivated on 1 March 1983. During most of the division's history it ...

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, stationed at

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, Maryland. It was inactivated on 1 January 1980. 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

503d Aircraft Control and Warning Group The 503d Aircraft Control and Warning Group (AC&WG) is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command (ADC)'s 26th Air Division at Roslyn AFS New York (state), New York. It was inactivated in 1952. ...

, 1 January 1951 *

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 ...

, 6 February 1952 *

4710th Defense Wing The 4710th Air Defense Wing is a discontinued unit of the United States Air Force. It was last stationed at O'Hare International Airport, Illinois, where it was assigned to the 37th Air Division of Air Defense Command (ADC), and where it was disco ...

, 16 February 1953 * 4709th Air Defense Wing, 1 March 1956 * 26th Air Division, 18 October 1956 *

New York Air Defense Sector The Eastern Air Defense Sector (EADS) is a United States Air Force unit of Air Combat Command (ACC), permanently assigned to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). A joint, bi-national military organization, EADS is composed of U ...

, 8 January 1957 *

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 ...

, 1 October 1961 *

33d Air Division The 33rd Air Division (33d AD) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command, assigned to First Air Force, being stationed at Fort Lee Air Force Station, Virginia. It was inactivated on ...

, 1 April 1966 * 20th Air Division, 19 November 1969 - 1 January 1980

Stations

* Palermo AFS, New Jersey, 1 January 1951 *

, Maryland, 1 October 1961 - 1 January 1980

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).

External links

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