Former US Air Force unit
864th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron |
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Emblem of the 864th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron |
Active | 1955-1963 |
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Country | United States |
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Branch | United States Air Force |
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Type | General Radar Surveillance |
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Military unit
The 864th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the Phoenix Air Defense Sector, Air Defense Command, stationed at Yuma Air Force Station, Arizona. It was inactivated on 1 August 1963.
The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of the United States.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
- ^ Air Defense Command Special Order G-4, 15 October 1962
- Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, [1] Archived 23 November 2006 at the Wayback Machine 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, [2][dead link] US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).