668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

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The 668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the San Francisco Air Defense Sector, Air Defense Command, stationed at Mather Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on 1 September 1961.

The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of the United States.

Lineage

  • Established as 668th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

: Activated on 8 December 1949

: Discontinued and inactivated on 1 September 1961

Assignments

Stations

References

{{Air Force Historical Research Agency}}

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  • Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 – 1980, [http://www.usafpatches.com/pubs/handbookofadcorg.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061123115752/http://www.usafpatches.com/pubs/handbookofadcorg.pdf |date=23 November 2006 }} 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, [http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bn/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA331231]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).