The 755th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 34th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Arlington Heights Air Force Station, Illinois. It was inactivated on 30 September 1969.

755th Radar Squadron
Emblem of the 755th Radar Squadron
Active1951-1969
CountryUnited States
BranchUnited States Air Force
TypeGeneral Radar Surveillance

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

Lineage

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  • Constituted as the 755th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron on 14 November 1950
Activated on 27 November 1950
Redesignated 755th Radar Squadron (SAGE), 15 October 1960
Inactivated on 30 September 1969

Assignments

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Stations

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  • Elkhorn, Wisconsin, 1 January 1951
Site redesignated Williams Bay AFS, Wisconsin, 1 December 1953

References

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  This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

  • 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).
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