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Army Units
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Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
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Signal Plotting Air Warning Company
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| 602nd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Plotting Company, Frontier (Air Warning Regional)
Located: Portland Air Region, Portland, Oregon, December 1941
Commander:
24 December 1941, Captain Russell L. Ostermeier
Note: Portland Air Region, activated on 10 January 1944, at Portland, Oregon; mission was to provide aircraft warning service for the Portland Air Region and Seattle Fighter Wing.
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Women's Army Corps Filter Company (AWS)
Activated:17 May 1943, as 602nd Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Filter Company, AWS (Air Warning Service), at Orlando, Florida
Redesignated: September 1943, 602nd Women's Army Corps Filter Company, AWS
Inactivated: 30 September 1943, per General Orders 131
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| 604th |
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Signal Company Air Warning Plotting, Frontier
Part of the Los Angeles Provisional Control Group
Located: Los Angeles Fighter Wing, Los Angeles, California
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Signal Company Air Warning Battalion, Regional
Activated: 15 September 1942, Boston, Massachusetts (Ref IRIS A0440)
Part of the Los Angeles Provisional Control Group
Located: Los Angeles Fighter Wing, Los Angeles, California
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| 605th |
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Signal Company Air Warning Regional
Located: Seattle Fighter Wing, Seattle, Washington
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| 606th |
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Signal Company Air Warning Regional
Located: San Francisco Fighter Wing, San Francisco, California
Commanders:
Brigadier General Ned Schran
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| 607th |
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Signal Company Air Warning
Disbanded: 30 June 1944
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| 608th |
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Signal Company Air Warning
Activated: 15 December 1942, Fort Dix, New Jersey, as the 651st Signal Reporting Company Frontier (AW); Deactivated: 14 September 1942, and personnel transferred to the newly activated 608th Signal Company (AW) Regional.
Inactivated: 6 July 1944
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| 609th |
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Signal Company Air Warning Regional
Activated: 15 September 1942, Norfolk, Virginia
Disbanded: 30 June 1944
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| 610th |
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Signal Company Air Warning Regional
Notes: Microfilm A0396 - Covers activities at Albany Air Region which stands for both a geographical area and for the military organization charged with the Air Defense of the region. As a military organization, Albany Air Region was not activated until 1 January 1943, was deactivated 10 April 1944.
Activated: 14 January 1942, as the 610th Signal Aircraft Warning Plotting Company, Frontier, at Albany, New York. Redesignated: 10 September 1942, 610th Signal Company, Air Warning Regional
Disbanded: 20 June 1944
Redesignated: 10 April 1944, became 150th Army Air Forces Base Unit (Air Region)
Disbanded: 31 July 1944
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| 611th |
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Signal Company Air Warning Regional
Activated: 14 January 1942, as the 611th Signal Plotting Company Air Warning Frontier
Redesignated: 15 September 1942, 611th Signal Company Air Warning Regional
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| 612th |
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Signal Company Air Warning Regional
Activated: 14 January 1942, as 612th Air Warning Plotting Company, Frontier
Redesignated: 15 September 1942, 612th Signal Aircraft Warning Company, Regional
Disbanded: 30 June 1944
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| 613th |
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Signal Company Air Warning Regional
Disbanded: 30 June 1944
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| 615th |
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Signal Company Air Warning Regional
Activated: 14 January 1942, as 615th Signal Aircraft Warning Plotting Company
Redesignated: 16 September 1942, as 615th Signal Aircraft Warning company, Regional
Disbanded: 30 June 1944
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| 616th |
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Signal Company Air Warning Regional
Activated: 29 May 1942, as 616th Signal Aircraft Warning Plotting Company, Frontier
Redesignated: 5 October 1942, as 616th Signal Aircraft Warning Company Regional
Located: San Diego Fighter Wing, San Diego, California
Disbanded: 31 March 1944
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| 621st |
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Signal Company Air Warning
Disbanded: 25 July 1944
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| 622nd |
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Signal Company Air Warning, Regional
Constituted: 27 December 1943, Orlando Air Base, Florida
Relocated: Dade Memorial Park, Bushnell, Florida
Activated: 4 January 1944
Disbanded: 3 June 1944, personnel transferred to Squadron D, 901st Base Unit, Tactical Wing
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| 651st |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Located: Seattle Fighter Wing, Seattle, Washington
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| 652nd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: December 1942, Fort Lawton, Seattle, Washington
Located: Seattle Fighter Wing, Seattle, Washington
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| 653rd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
San Francisco Fighter Wing, San Francisco, California
Located: November 1943, Hamilton Field, California
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| 654th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Located: Los Angeles Fighter Wing, Los Angeles, California
Mission: Improvement of Coordination of Fighter Control Squadrons and Signal Companies, Aircraft Warning
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| 655th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company Frontier (Ground Observer Corps)
Located: December 1941, Portland, Oregon
Commanders:
1941, Major Herman Scherner
24 December 1941, Captain Charles A. Jager
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| 656th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Located: November 1943, Hamilton AFB, CAlifornia
Relocated: Half Moon Bay, California 2 January 1948
Transferred: 15 September 1948, to Kirkland Air Force Base, New Mexico
Notes: Took TPS-10 radar to Kirkland
Deactivated: October 1951
Detachment C
Half Moon Bay Tactical Position, Harbor Defenses of San Francisco
8 December 1943-28 February 1944
Subordinate to: San Francisco Provisional Control Group, San Francisco Fighter Wing, IV Fighter Command
Notes: 1 May 1944, consolidated into a single unit, the 411th AAFBU (San Francisco Control Group)
28 February 1947, consolidated under the 412th AAFBU (Western Control and Warning Group); 411th AAFBU becoming Squadron "B" of that organization
412th AAFBU became the 505th AC&WG and Squadron "B" was Redesignated: the 636th AC&W Squadron
Redesignated: Detachment “G”
Equipment: CPS-1; SCR-588B removed January 1948; TPS-10; CPS-7, 2 each TPS-1B’s 15 September 1948;
Detachment G
Notes: Formally Detachment C
Half Moon Bay, California
Reassigned: 1 August 1949, from the 636th AC&W Squadron to the 637th AC&W Squadron at Moses Lake Air Force Base Washington
Reassigned: 8 December 1949 to 668th AC&W Squadron at Hamilton Air Force Base, California
Reassigned: February 1950,to Mather AFB, Sacramento, California
Notes: Left a detachment to operate the AN/CPS-5
Equipment: TPS-10; CPS-1; CPS-5; CPS-6 June 1950;
Detachment K
Palos Verdes, California
Detachment L
Berkeley, California
Detachment M
La Jolla, California
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| 657th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Located: (November 1943) San Diego, Fighter Wing, San Diego, California
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| 658th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Located: Los Angeles Fighter Wing, Los Angeles, California
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| 659th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company, Siting and Testing
Relocated: from Drew Field, Florida to San Diego Municipal Airport, California
Relocated: Hamilton Field, California
Inactivated: 30 June 1943, personnel transferred to 669th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
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| 660th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 15 December 1942, as the 660th Signal Aircraft Warning Company, at Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics, Orlando, Florida.
Redesignated: 3rd Tactical Control Group (see 3rd Tactical Control Group)
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| 661st |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 26 March 1943, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
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| 665th |
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Signal Reporting Company Frontier
Activated: 24 February 1942
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| 666th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Constituted: 27 December 1943, At Army Air Forces Tactical Center, Orlando, Florida
Activated: 4 January 1944
Disbanded: 29 May 1944, personnel transferred to Squadron B, 901st Base Unit, Tactical Wing
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| 668th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
Located: (November 1943) San Diego Fighter Wing, San Diego, California
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
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| 669th |
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Signal Air Siting and Testing, Aviation Company
Activated: July 1942, as 669th Signal Aircraft Warning Siting and Testing Company at Fighter Command School, Orlando, Florida
Relocated: Seaside Park, New Jersey
Relocated: San Diego, California
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| 670th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Guadalcanal 7 August 1942 – 21 February 1943
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| 671st |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
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| 674th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 20 July 1942, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
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| 675th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Lalmai, India
Det - Bhairab Bazaar, India
Det - Chitagong, India
Det - Kurmitola, India
Det - Noakhali, India
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
India - Burma 2 April 1942 – 28 January 1945
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| 677th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Inactivated: December 1944
Detachment
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| 678th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Inactivated: 29 August 1944
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| 679th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 13 May 1942, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
India - Burma 2 April 1942 – 28 January 1945
FG33 100 miles east of Kohima, India
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| 680th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Note: Company trained at Kualoa Submarine Air Base area
Located: April 1944, Bellows Field, Territory of Hawaii
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Western Pacific (Ground) 15 June 1944 – 2 September 1945
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| 683rd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
1st Reporting Platoon
Located: 10 April 1944, Miami, Florida
Photos by Carol Dunkleberger
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| 684th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
Located: Third Air Force Personnel Depot, Plant Park, Tampa, Florida (1944)
Waller Field, Trinidad
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| 685th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company (Special)
Activated: 9 June 1942, as 685th Signal Aircraft Warning Reporting Company, Special, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Redesignated: 5 September 1942, as 685th Signal Aircraft Warning Company (Special)
Relocated: Newfoundland Base Command
Relocated: Plant Park, Tampa, Florida
Relocated: 1 March 1945, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida, to await disbandment orders
Disbanded: 6 July 1945
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| 686th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 9 June 1942, as 686th Signal Aircraft Warning Company, Special, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Redesignated: 16 September 1942, as 686th Signal Aircraft Warning Company, Special
Relocated: Hato Field, Curacao, Netherlands, Antellies
Subordinate to: Antellies Air Command, Serving in the British West Indies and Netherlands, West Indies
Note: Hato Field was located on the island of Guracao in the Caribbean within sight of the Venezuelan shoreline
Disbanded: 15 December 1944
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| 687th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
Located: at Seymour Island, The Galapagos, Ecuador
Subordinate to: 516th Signal Aircraft Warning Regiment
Note: Radar stations were closing, personnel were going home. The Galapagos Island Station personnel had been cut to housekeeping duties only, September 1945
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| 688th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
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| 689th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 25 March 1942, as 689th Signal Aircraft Warning Reporting Company (Frontier), at Tuskegee Army Flying School, Tuskegee, Alabama
Note: First Colored Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Redesignated: 30 October 1942, as 689th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Departed: 31 March 1943, Tuskegee, Alabama
Departed: 30 April 1943, for overseas duty
Arrived: 24 May 1943, Efate, New Hebrides
Subordinate to: 24 July 1944, 13th Air Warning Group (Provisional)
Departed: 19 October 1944, Guadalcanal
Arrived: 30 October 1944, Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea
Arrived: 19 December 1944, Biak, Schouten Islands
Subordinate to: 28 November 1944, XIII Fighter Command
Arrived: 30 April 1945, Sanga Sanga Island, Southwest Philippines
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
Southern Philippines 27 February – 4 July 1945
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation 7 December 1941 – 10 May 1942 or 17 October 1944 – 4 July 1945
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| 690th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company, Frontier
Activated: 9 April 1942, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida, as 690th Signal Aircraft Warning Company, Frontier
Redesignated: 9 March 1943, as 690th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Departed: 8 October 1943, for overseas duty
Arrived: 20 October 1943, Gourock, Scotland
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| 691st |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company (Frontier)
Alaska 1942
Note: Originally, Signal Company, Aircraft Warning, Alaska
Redesignated: 25 March 1942, 691st Signal Aircraft Warning Reporting Company (Frontier)
Redesignated: 18 August 1942, 691st Signal Aircraft Warning Reporting Company (Special)
Note: Fire wiped out Headquarters building at Lazy Bay Location, 15 January 1943
Redesignated: 5 March 1943, 691st Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Departed: 16 July 1944, Kodiak Harbor, Alaska for Drew Field, Florida
Inactivated: 13 October 1944
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| 692nd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Location: Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean August 1944
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| 694th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Subordinate to: 565th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion, 1942
Location: New Guinea
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
East Indies 1 January – 22 July 1942
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| 695th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 16 January 1942, as 695th Signal Aircraft Warning Reporting Company, at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey
Redesignated: 23 December 1942, as 695th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Departed: 23 July 1943, for overseas duty
Guadalcanal 1943
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| 696th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 18 January 1942, as 696th Signal Aircraft Warning Reporting Company, Frontier, at Camp Haan, California
Departed: 29 January 1942, for overseas duty
Mission: To install and operate radar station
Relocated: 17 May 1944, ?
Location: Tinian Island, West Pacific Ocean (Oct 1944 - Jan 1945)
Departed: 1945, Marshall Islands
Arrived: 30 July 1945, Hawaiian Islands
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Western Pacific (Ground) 15 June 1944 – 2 September 1945
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| 697th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Assigned to: 28 May 1944, to Seventh Air Force
Mission: Seventh Air Force Communications School was changed to the Army Air Forces Pacific Ocean Area Communications School, and the 697th Signal Aircraft Warning Company continued as parent organization.
Disbanded: 1 June 1945
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| 698th |
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AntiAircraft Artillery (Gun) Battalion
Notes: (may have had radar)
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Signal Reporting Company
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| 699th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Location: New Guinea
Subordinate to: 565th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
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| 700th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Attached to: Americal Division WWII
Located: 27 May 1942, New Caledonia
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| 701st |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 27 July 1942, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Arrived: 1 November 1942, Honolulu
Arrived: 12 December 1943, New Caledonia
Departed: 29 August 1944, New Caledonia
Arrived: 13 September 1944, Fort McDowell, San Francisco, California, for medical examinations, clothes and supplies
Relocated: September 1944, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Disbanded: 7 November 1944
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| 702nd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 27 July 1942, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Departed: 22 October 1942, San Francisco, California, for South Pacific Area
Arrived: 28 November 1942, New Caledonia
Arrived: 21 September 1944, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Disbanded: 7 November 1944
Plotting Platoon
1st Reporting Platoon
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| 704th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 26 September, 1943, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Departed: 2 November 1943, San Francisco, California, for overseas dusty in Western Pacific Area, including Kwajalein Island
Subordinate to: 599th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Eastern Mandates (Ground) 31 January – 14 June 1944
Detachment A
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| 705th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
See: 713th Signal Warning Company
Activated: 1 October 1942, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Departed: 20 August 1943, Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, for England
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| 707th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 1 October 1942, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Relocated: 15 March 1943, Amchitka, Alaska
Mission: Collecting, evaluating and presenting information concerning enemy and friendly aircraft for action by the Air Corps.
End of Operations: 11 September 1945, began preparations to return to the United States. Closed outposts Constantine Point and Aleutian Point
Note: Reported on enemy balloon activities; 30 foot balloon of special white light weight paper
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Aleutian Islands 3 June 1942 – 24 August 1943
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| 708th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 1 November 1942, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Departed: 30 April 1943, for Australia
Relocated: 5 June 1943, New Guinea
Attached to: 3 September 1943, 565th SAW Battalion
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
Disbanded: 16 May 1944 (583rd Unit History, page 414) or 31 May 1944 (microfilm A0442)
Notes: Personnel and equipment transferred to Company D, 596th SAW Battalion
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| 709th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Subordinate to: 565th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
Attached to: 3 September 1943, 583rd Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
Relocated: September 1943, Nadzab
Disbanded: 1 March 1944 (583rd Unit History, page 414)
Equipment: SCR-516
1st Reporting Platoon
Notes: 14 May 1944, personnel and equipment transferred to Company A, 565th SAW Battalion
2nd Reporting Platoon
Notes: 14 May 1944, personnel and equipment transferred to Company B, 574th SAW Battalion
3rd Reporting Platoon
Notes: 14 May 1944, personnel and equipment transferred to Company B, 565th SAW Battalion
4th Reporting Platoon
Notes: 16 May 1944, personnel and equipment transferred to Company C, 574th SAW Battalion
5th Reporting Platoon
Notes: 14 May 1944, personnel and equipment transferred to Company B, 565th SAW Battalion
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| 710th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
** Due to the disbanding and becoming part of the 583rd SAW Bn. it will be necessary to refer back to the 583rd information.**
Activated: 1 November 1942 at Drew Field, Tampa Florida
Assigned to: Aircraft Warning Unit Training Center, III Fighter Command, Drew Field
Arrived: 20 April 1943, Camp Stoneman, San Francisco, California
Departed: 30 April 1943, San Francisco, California
Arrived: 26 May 1943, Brisbane, Australia
Departed: 30 May 1943, Brisbane, Australia
Arrived: 5 June 1943, Port Moresby, New Guinea
Notes: First operation, 22 June 1943, occupation of Kiriwina, Island, on the Northeast tip of New Guinea.
Landed: 25 June 1943, 3rd Platoon (four radar stations) by destroyer, Kiriwina (Operation Chronicle)
Notes:
1. Largest Island in the Trobriand Island Group, 25 miles long and 6 miles wide. Located 360 miles south of Rabaul.
2. During July, August and September, took part in the drive across the mountains, that resulted in the capture of Salamaua, Lae, and Nadzab, plus an extended stretch of the Markam and Rami Valleys.
Attached to: 3 September 1943, 565th SAW Battalion Mindoro, Philippines December 1944
Disbanded: 29 September 1943
Notes: Personnel and equipment transferred to 583rd SAW Bn.
Redesignated: October/November 1943, Company A, 583rd SAW Bn
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
1st Reporting Platoon
Relocated: 7 - 10 July 1943, from Port Mosbey to Wau, then proceeded from Wau to Ballams, New Guinea towards Salamaua.
Notes: Remained at Ballams, New Guinea until late October 1943 (altitude 5,000 feet)
2nd Reporting Platoon
Relocated: 7 - 10 July 1943, from Port Mosbey to Bulolo
Relocated: (?) 1943, towards the Markham Valley
3rd Reporting Platoon
Relocated: 7 - 10 July 1943, from Port Mosbey to Marilinan
Relocated: September 1943, A(?)mania
4th Reporting Platoon
Relocated: September 1943, Nadzab by airlift
5th Reporting Platoon
Relocated: 31 July 1943, Bena Bena by airlift
6th Reporting Platoon
Relocated: 31 July 1943, Garoka by airlift
*Notes: Dates may seem out of order, but dates reflect dates of orders. The units dissolved, but transferred equipment and personnel to the 583rd SAW Bn.
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| 711th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
** Due to the disbanding and becoming part of the 583rd SAW Bn. it will be necessary to refer back to the Company B, 583rd SAW Battalion information.**
Arrived: 3 November 1942, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Departed: 8 April 1943
Arrived: 9 April, Operation Training Vicinity Drew Field and Sarasota, Florida
Departed: 14 May 1943
Arrived: 15 May 1943, Drew Field, Tamp, Florida
Departed: 13 June 1943
Arrived: 18 June 1943, Camp Stoneman, California
Departed: 26 June 1943, San Francisco
Arrived: 13 July 1943, Brisbane, Australia
Departed: July 1943, Brisbane, Australia
Arrived: 18 July 1943, Port Moresby, New Guinea
Attached to: 3 September 1943, 565th SAW Battalion
Disbanded: 29 September 1943
Notes: Personnel and equipment transferred to 583rd SAW Bn.
Redesignated: October/November 1943, Company B, 583rd SAW Bn
7th Platoon
Relocated: 1943, to Gusap
Relocated: 1943 Faita in the Ramu Valley
8th Platoon
Relocated: 1943, to Dumpu, near the airstrip
9th Platoon
Relocated: September 1943, Goodenough Island
Notes: Two platoons (either the 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th ) relocated. One to Urasi Island and the other to Ferguson Island.
Equipment: SCR-602
10th Platoon
Relocated: September 1943, Goodenough Island
Notes: Two platoons (either the 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th ) relocated. One to Urasi Island and the other to Ferguson Island.
Equipment: SCR-602
11th Platoon
Relocated: September 1943, Goodenough Island
Notes: Two platoons (either the 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th ) relocated. One to Urasi Island and the other to Ferguson Island.
Equipment: SCR-602
12th Platoon
Relocated: September 1943, Goodenough Island
Notes: Two platoons (either the 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th ) relocated. One to Urasi Island and the other to Ferguson Island.
Equipment: SCR-602
*Notes: Dates may seem out of order, but dates reflect dates of orders. The units dissolved, but transferred equipment and personnel to the 583rd SAW Bn.
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| 712th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company*
** Due to the disbanding and becoming part of the 583rd SAW Bn. it will be necessary to refer back to the 583rd information.**
Activated: 1 December 1942, Drew Field, Tampa Florida
Assigned: Third Air Force
Notes: 2 May 1943, According to the 583rd SAW Bn. Unit History, the Officers and Men were transferred out of the 712th SAW Co. to form the 767 SAW Co. New personnel were assigned from May - September 1943 (583rd Unit History, Page 466)
Departed: 22 September 1943, Drew Field, Florida
Arrived: 28 September 1943, Camp Stoneman, California
Departed: 27 October 1943, San Francisco, California
Arrived: 13 November 1943, Sydney, Australia
Departed: 16 November 1943
Arrived: 18 November 1943, Brisbane, Australia
Departed: 25 January 1944
Arrived: 5 February
1944, Oro Bay, New Guinea
Disbanded: 17 November 1943
Notes: Personnel and equipment transferred to Company D (later redesignated "C") 583rd SAW Bn.
Redesignated: 30 November 1943, Company C, 583rd SAW Bn
Commanders:
1 December 1942 - 2 May 1943, 1st Lt. Stanley M. Whalen
2 May 1943 - 24 May 1944, 1st Lt. John O. Wallace
25 May 1944 - 4 June 1944, 1st Lt. Christian Isermann
4 June 1944 - 13 December 1944, Capt. Stanley L. Steele
13 December 1944 - 1 January 1945, 1st Lt. Donald Z Sparn
1 January 1945 - (?), 1st Lt. John V. Kelley
*Notes: Dates may seem out of order, but dates reflect dates of orders. The units dissolved, but transferred equipment and personnel to the 583rd SAW Bn.
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| 713th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 1 December 1942, as the 705th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Redesignated: 23 April 1943, as 713th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Inactivated: 15 August 1946
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Aleutian Islands 3 June 1942 24 August 1943
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| 714th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 1 December 1942, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Disbanded: 29 August 1945
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| 715th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
** Due to the disbanding and becoming part of the 583rd SAW Bn. it will be necessary to refer back to the 583rd information.**
Departed: 4 September 1943, San Francisco, California
Arrived: 29 September, 1943, Townsville, Australia
Relocated: 15 November 1943, Oro Bay, New Guinea
Notes: Mostly personnel for staging for the Cape Glouchester Operation
Disbanded: 3 October 1943
Notes: Personnel and equipment transferred to 583rd SAW Bn.
Redesignated: 11 October 1943, Company D, 583rd SAW Bn
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| 716th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 29 August 1942
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Aleutian Islands 3 June 1942 24 August 1943
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| 718th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 1 January 1943, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
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| 719th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 1 January 1943, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
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| 720th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 5 January 1943, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Relocated: January 1945, departed for port of embarkation
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| 721st |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Located: Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Relocated: February 1944, departed for California (possibly Camp Pinedale, California)
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| 722nd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Leyte 17 October 1944 – 1 July 1945
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation 7 December 1941 – 10 May 1942 or 17 October 1944 – 4 July 1945
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| 723rd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
Disbanded: 16 May 1944 (583rd Unit History, page 414)
HQ & Plotting Platoon
Notes: 16 May 1944, Equipment and personnel transferred to Company A, 597th SAW Battalion
1st Reporting Platoon
Notes: 16 May 1944, personnel and equipment transferred to Company B, 565th SAW Battalion
2nd Reporting Platoon
Notes: 14 May 1944, Personnel and equipment transferred to Company C, 574th SAW Battalion
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| 724th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
Disbanded:16 May 1944 (583rd Unit History, page 414)
HQ & Plotting Platoon
Notes: 16 May 1944, Equipment and personnel transferred to Company B, 597th SAW Battalion
1st Reporting Platoon
Notes: 16 May 1944, personnel and equipment transferred to Company A, 574th SAW Battalion
Note: Biak Island Assault, May 1944. Mission: 1st Plat, 724th Sig AW Co (RS 524) will land at Wardo Village Z+10. It will be sited for GCI if possible, otherwise it will be sited CH/L with coverage to the West." (page 613, 85th Fighter Wing History C0041.pdf)
2nd Reporting Platoon
Notes: 16 May 1944, personnel and equipment transferred to Company B, 574th SAW Battalion
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| 725th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 1 February 1943
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
HQ & Plotting Platoon
Notes: 16 May 1944, Equipment and personnel transferred to Company C, 597th SAW Battalion
1st Reporting Platoon
Notes: 16 May 1944, Equipment and Personnel transferred to Company A, 565th SAW Battalion
2nd Reporting Platoon
Notes: 16 May 1944, personnel and equipment transferred to Company C, 565th SAW Battalion
Disbanded: 1 March 1944 (583rd Unit History, page 414)
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| 726th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Iwo Jima
Inactivated: 16 February 1945
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Air Offensive, Japan 17 April 1942 – 2 September 1945
Western Pacific (Ground) 15 June 1944 – 2 September 1945
Occupation Credit: 15 September – 5 December 1945 Japan
Occupation Credit: 5 October – 5 December 1945 Japan Detachment No. 1 Only
Naval Unit Citation: 19 – 28 February 1945 (Three Detachments only)
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Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
New Mexico (National Guard)
Activated: Korea
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| 727th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Organized: 1 February 1943, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Leyte 17 October 1944 – 1 July 1945 (Less two SCR-602 Teams)
Ryukyus 26 March – 2 July 1945
Occupation Credit: 15 September – 20 December 1945 Japan
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation 7 December 1941 – 10 May 1942 or 17 October 1944 – 4 July 1945
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| 728th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Organized: 6 march 1943, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Leyte 17 October 1944 – 1 July 1945
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation 7 December 1941 – 10 May 1942 or 17 October 1944 – 4 July 1945
Detachment
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| 729th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
WWII
China-Burma-India Theater
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| 730th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
Organized: 1 March 1943, at San Francisco, California
China-Burma-India Theater
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| 731st |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Organized: 1 March 1943, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Inactivated: 6 February, 1944
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| 732nd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Inactivated: 15 January 1944
Notes: equipment and personnel and equipment transferred to 582nd SAW Bn
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Naples-Foggia (Ground) 9 September 1943 – 21 January 1944
Sicily (Ground) 9 July – 17 August 1943
Assault Landing: Gela 9 – 11 July 1943
Assault Landing: Salerno 9 – 10 September 1943
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| 733rd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 4 February 1943, at La Senia Airport, Algeria
Disbanded: 15 January 1944
Notes: equipment and personnel and equipment transferred to 582nd SAW Bn
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Naples-Foggia (Ground) 9 September 1943 – 21 January 1944
Sicily (Ground) 9 July – 17 August 1943
Assault Landing: Gela 9 – 11 July 1943
Assault Landing: Salerno 9 – 10 September 1943
Occupation Credit: 5 July – 31 October 1945 Germany
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| 734th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Organized: 1 March 1943, at Casablanca, French Morocco
Disbanded: 15 January 1944
Notes: equipment and personnel and equipment transferred to 582nd SAW Bn
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Naples-Foggia (Ground) 9 September 1943 – 21 January 1944
Sicily (Ground) 9 July – 17 August 1943
Assault Landing: Gela 9 – 11 July 1943
Assault Landing: Salerno 9 – 10 September 1943
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| 735th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Aleutian Islands 3 June 1942 – 24 August 1943
Western Pacific (Ground) 15 June 1944 – 2 September 1945
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| 736th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Deactivated: 26 December 1944
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Aleutian Islands 3 June 1942 – 24 August 1943
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| 737th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Note: participated in North Appennines and Po Valley Campaigns
Disbanded: 15 June 1945, at Marina Di Pisa, Italy
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
North Appennines 10 September 1944 – 4 April 1945
Po Valley 5 April – 8 May 1945
Notes: Became 595th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
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| 738th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
Start Point, Devon, England
Fairlight, Sussex, England
Inactivated: 24 June 1945
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Central Europe 22 March – 11 May 1945
Citation in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army 6 June – 30 September 1944
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Subordinate to: XIX Tactical Air Command - third Army
Activated: 1 April 1943, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Inactivated: 24 June 1945
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Northern France 25 July – 14 September 1944
Rhineland 15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945
Meritorious Unit Commendation 22 September 1944 – 9 May 1945
Equipment: CPS-1 (Microwave Early Warning) August 1944
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| 739th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
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| 740th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Organized: 1 April 1943, At Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
Disbanded: 16 May 1944 (583rd Unit History, page 414)
Notes: Personnel and equipment transferred to Company A, 596th SAW Battalion
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| 741st |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company, Light
Activated: 1 April 1943, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Equipment: 10 January 1944, Six (6) SCR-602 (May have had more, reference was found mentioning 6)
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
Disbanded: 16 May 1944 (583rd Unit History, page 414)
Notes: Personnel and equipment transferred to Company B, 596th SAW Battalion
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| 742nd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Disbanded: 14 February 1944
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| 743rd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 1 April 1943, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Disbanded: 8 March 1944
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| 744th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Disbanded: 14 February 1944
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| 745th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Disbanded: 14 February 1944
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| 746th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 1 April 1943, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Reorganized: 18 December 1943
Subordinate to: 599th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Western Pacific (Ground) 15 June 1944 – 2 September 1945
Battle of Guam, 1944
Garrison Force: Guam, under Island Commander, Major General Henry C. Larsen, USMC
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| 747th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Disbanded: 9 February 1944
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| 748th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Organized: 1 April 1943, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Subordinate to: 598 Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
Disbanded: 30 November 1944
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Leyte 17 October 1944 – 1 July 1945
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation 7 December 1941 – 10 May 1942 or 17 October 1944 – 4 July 1945
Detachment
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| 749th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Organized: 1 May 1943, at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
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| 750th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Organized: 1 May 1943, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
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| 751st |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 9 August 1943, At Drew Field, Florida
Disbanded: 26 February 1944
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| 752nd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 1 May 1943
Disbanded: 9 March 1944
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| 753rd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Disbanded: 9 February 1944
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| 754th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Disbanded: 14 February 1944
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| 755th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Disbanded: 9 February 1944
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| 756th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Disbanded: 4 March 1944
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
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| 757th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Disbanded: 9 February 1944
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| 758th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Disbanded: 14 February 1944
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| 759th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 27 August 1943, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Disbanded: 30 November 1944
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Eastern Mandates (Ground) 31 January – 14 June 1944
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| 760th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
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| 761st |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 1 June 1943, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
India-Burma 2 April 1942 – 28 January 1945
China-Burma-India Theater
Dinjan, India
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| 762nd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 24 June 1943, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Located: 1945, Kiska, Alaska
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Aleutian Islands 3 June 1942 – 24 August 1943
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| 763rd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Western Pacific (Ground) 15 June 1944 – 2 September 1945
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| 764th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Disbanded: 14 February 1944
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 1 June 1943, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Mission: Ground Controlled Interception
Departed: 1 March 1944, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Arrived: Camp Pinedale, Fresno, California, Western Signal Aviation Unit Training Center
Disbanded: 29 August 1945
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| 766st |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 22 July 1943, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Mission: Training and equipping the organization in preparation for overseas service. Future mission is the operation of fixed Ground-Controlled Interception stations in an overseas theater of operation.
Departed: 26 February 1944, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida for Camp Anza, Arlington, California
Located: 1944, Assam, India
Disbanded: 12 August 1944
3rd Platoon
Relocated: 11 July 1944, From Assam, India to Myitkyina, Burma
Note: Platoon had air transportable Ground Control Interception radar equipment
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| 767th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 20 May 1943, at Camp Owen Brorein, Near Springs, Florida
Departed: 18 July 1943, San Francisco, California for Adak, in the Andreanof Group of the Aleutian Islands.
Relocated: 9 December 1943, Drew Field, Florida
Disbanded: 17 October 1944
Notes: According to the 583rd SAW Bn. Unit History, the Officers and Men were transferred out of the 712th SAW Co. to form the 767 SAW Co. (583rd Unit History, Page 466)
Commanders:
1 December 1942 - 2 May 1943, 1st Lt. Stanley M. Whalen
2 May 1943 - 24 May 1944, 1st Lt. John O. Wallace
25 May 1944 - 4 June 1944, 1st Lt. Christian Isermann
4 June 1944 - 13 December 1944, Capt. Stanley L. Steele
13 December 1944 - 1 January 1945, 1st Lt. Donald Z Sparn
1 January 1945 - (?), 1st Lt. John V. Kelley
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Aleutian Islands 3 June 1942 – 24 August 1943
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| 775th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Disbanded: 9 February 1944
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| 791st |
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AntiAircraft Artillery Automatic Weapon Battalion
Relocated: 10 January 1945, Canteleu from Le Harve
Equipment: AN/TPS-2
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| 798th |
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AntiAircraft Artillery (Gun) Battalion
Notes: (may have had radar)
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| 832nd |
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4th Radar Station Section
Signal Aircraft Warning Company, Detachment
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
Assault Landing: Panoan Island 20 October 1944
Assault Landing: Lingayen Gulf P.I. 9 January 1945
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Signal Air Warning Company
China, Burma, India Theater |
| 1159th |
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Signal Corps Radar Field Unit
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| 2685th |
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Fighter Control Squadron
Algeria, June 1943
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| 2691st |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion, Mobile, Provisional
Activated:14 March 1943
Note: Formed as The Provisional Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
Redesignated: 23 August 1943, Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion (Mobile) Provisional
Disbanded: 15 January 1944
Notes: Equipment and personnel and equipment transferred to 582nd SAW Bn. See 582nd SAW Bn. for more details.
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Algeria-French Morocco 8 – 11 November 1942
Naples-Foggia (Ground) 9 September 1943 – 21 January 1944
Rome-Arno 22 January – 9 September 1944
Sicily (Ground) 9 July – 17 August 1943
Tunisia (Ground) 17 November 1942 – 13 May 1943
Assault Landing: Salerno 9 – 10 September 1943
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| 5275th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 2 September 1944, at Nadzab, New Guinea
Mission: To process and train Aircraft Warning troops to serve as pool of replacements
Note: Training activities carried out on AN/TPS-3, SCR-527, SCR-602, AN/TPS-2 and SCR-636 radar sets.
Located: October 1944, Finschhafen, New Guinea
Located: January 1945, Biak, Netherlands East Indies
Note: As a result of surprise bombing raid by the Japanese in late March 1945, unit assumed Air Warning duties for Biak area in addition to normal training assignment.
Ceased operations: 15 January 1945
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
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| 5276th |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion, Headquarters and Headquarters Company
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
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| 5312nd |
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Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion, (Provisional)
Activated: 9 December 1943, Dinjan, Assam, India
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
India-Burma 2 April 1942 – 28 January 1945
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| 6507th |
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Signal Radar Reporting Platoon (Provisional)
1944
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| 6508th |
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Signal Radar Reporting Platoon (Provisional)
Disbanded: 29 September 1944, at Cap Caxine, Algeria, North Africa
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| 6513th |
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Signal Radar Reporting Platoon (Provisional)
1944
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| 6514th |
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Signal Radar Reporting Platoon (Provisional)
Activated: 1 June 1944, Naples, Italy
Departed: 6 June 1944, Algiers, North Africa
Arrived: 15 July 1944, Ladispoli, Italy
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
North Appennines 10 September 1944 – 4 April 1945
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| 6515th |
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Signal Radar Reporting Platoon (Provisional)
1944
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| 6524th |
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Signal Radar Reporting Platoon (Provisional)
Activated: 1 June 1944, Calvi, Corsica
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| 6526th |
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Signal Radar Reporting Platoon (Provisional)
Activated: 1 June 1944, Naples, Italy
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| 6527th |
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Signal Radar Reporting Platoon (Provisional)
1944
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| 6528th |
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Signal Radar Reporting Platoon (Provisional)
Activated: 1 June 1944, Naples, Italy
Relocated: 16 July 1944, San Vincenzo/San Vincence, Italy
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
North Appennines 10 September 1944 – 4 April 1945
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| 6529th |
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Signal Radar Reporting Platoon (Provisional)
Redesignated: 1 June 1944, Formerly 6th Platoon, Company A, 562nd Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion (Separate) (Special)
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| 6531st |
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Signal Radar Reporting Platoon (Provisional)
Disbanded: 21 September 1944
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| 6532nd |
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Signal Radar Reporting Platoon (Provisional)
Activated: 1 June 1944, Naples, Italy
Arrived: 19 July 1944, Tariquina, Italy
Relocated: 26 July 1944, San Lucia/San Lucido, Italy
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| 6533rd |
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Signal Radar Reporting Platoon (Provisional)
Located: June 1944, Tunisia, North Africa
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| 6740th |
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Signal Radar Service Platoon (Provisional)
Activated: 1 January 1944, At Algiers, Algeria
Relocated: 18-21 February 1944, From Algeria to Naples, Italy
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Radar and Radio Counter Measures Unit, USA FFE
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Leyte 17 October 1944 – 28 January 1945
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation 7 December 1941 – 10 May 1942 or 17 October 1944 – 4 July 1945
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Radar and Radio Counter Measures Unit, USAF, Pacific
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Luzon 15 December 1944 – 4 July 1945
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation 7 December 1941 – 10 May 1942 or 17 October 1944 – 4 July 1945
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Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Philippine Islands 7 December 1941 – 10 May 1942
Distinguished Unit Citation 7 December 1941 – 10 May 1942 and 6 January – 14 February 1942
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation 7 December 1941 – 10 May 1942 or 17 October 1944 – 4 July 1945
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