The 660th Radar Squadron is an inactive

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unit. It was last assigned to the 20th NORAD Region (

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, stationed at

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, Florida. It was inactivated on 15 November 1980. The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of the United States.

Lineage

* Activated as 660th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, 5 December 1949 : Inactivated 6 February 1952 * Activated 18 June 1953 : Redesignated 660th Radar Squadron (SAGE), 1 March 1961 : Redesignated 660th Radar Squadron, 1 February 1974 : Inactivated on 15 November 1980

Assignments

* 541st Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 5 December 1949 - 6 February 1952 * 35th Air Division, 18 June 1953 * 32d Air Division, 15 November 1958 *

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, 1 November 1959 * 32d Air Division, 1 April 1966 * 20th Air Division, 19 November 1969 - 15 November 1980

Stations

Selfridge AFB Selfridge Air National Guard Base or Selfridge ANGB is an Air National Guard installation located in Harrison Township, Michigan, near Mount Clemens. Selfridge Field was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the Unit ...

, Michigan, 5 December 1949 - 6 February 1952 *

Dobbins AFB Dobbins Air Reserve Base or Dobbins ARB is a United States Air Force reserve air base located in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb about northwest of Atlanta. Originally known as Dobbins Air Force Base, it was named in honor of Captain Charles M. ...

, Georgia, 18 June 1953 *

, Florida, 1 August 1954 – 15 November 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).
Information for MacDill AFB, FL

External links

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