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
542d Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 8 December 1949
28th Air Division, 6 February 1952
San Francisco Air Defense Sector, 1 July 1960 – 1 September 1961
Stations
Hamilton AFB, California, 8 December 1949
Mather AFB, California, 10 January 1951 – 1 September 1961
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).