Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron
Roslyn ANG Station, New York
Redesignated: August 1953 to 152nd Tactical Control Group and mission changed

Aircraft Control & Warning Group
New York ANG
Redesignated: 24 May 1946 from 558th Signal Air Warning Battalion
Allotted: 24 May 1946 to National Guard
Federal recognition: March 1948
Federalized: 1 September 1951 at Grenier AFB, New Hampshire
Redesignated: 152nd Tactical Control Group, August, 1953
Mobilized: 1 August, 1951 – 1 August, 1953
Commander: Colonel Magalhass
Notes: Installed radar systems in Labrador, Newfoundland, and Greenland

Tactical Control Group
Syracuse ANG Base, New York
Relocated to: Roslyn, New York in 1959
Mobilized: 1 August, 1951 – 1 August, 1953
Peacetime mission: to attain and maintain an optimum effective capability to carry out roles and tasks assigned; Gathering information on all friendly and enemy air activity; and accurate and timely presentation of that information to be utilized in effective employment of offensive or defensive measures
Activated: 1 October 1961 - 1962
Subordinate to: 9th Air Force, Tactical Air Command
Note: Prepared for overseas movement. 7 through 13 November 1961, Conducted movement as part of Operation Stair Step
Deployment: West Germany (10 months)
152 Tactical Control Group, Mannheim, Germany
101 Aircraft Control and Warning Flight, Giebelstadt, Germany
102 Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, Celle, Germany
103 Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, Rothweston, Germany
106 Tactical Control Squadron, Mannheim, Germany
108 Aircraft Control and Warning Flight, Hamm, Germany
112 Aircraft Control and Warning Flight, BuecheL, Germany
123 Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, Landshut, Germany
Mission: Provide radar control system for aircraft on offensive tactical missions; Provide instrument bombing system in support of 17 Air Force; Air surveillance and control for air defense system; And maintain capabilities for redeployment and operations from unimproved sites.
Commander:
1961, Colonel Willard S. Hagalhaas
Subordinate Units as of 1961:
152nd Tactical Control Group, Roslyn, Long Island, New York
101st Aircraft Control and Warning Flight, Worchester, Massachusetts
102nd Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, Providence, Rhode Island
103rd Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, Orange Connecticut
106th Tactical Control Squadron, Roslyn, Long Island, New York
108th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, Syracuse, New York
112th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, State College, Pennsylvania
123rd Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, Blue Ash, Ohio
Operations: Terminated 19 May 1962
Redeployed: Through July 1962, to Home bases for inactivation
Subordinate units: as of 20 August, 1971
152nd TCS, TACC, Roslyn, New York
108th TCS, CRC, Syracuse, New York
112th TCS, CRP, State College, Pennsylvania
123rd TCS,CRP, Blue Ash, Ohio
113th TCP, FACP, Syracuse, New York
128th TCF, FACP, Syracuse, New York
Manning: 38 Officers; 97 Airmen
Subordinate Units as of 1982:
103rd Tactical Control Squadron
112th Tactical Control Flight
123rd Tactical Control Flight
124th Tactical Control Flight
128th Tactical Control Flight
213th Electronics Installation Squadron
Note: 1990, continued Drug Interdiction support

Exercises:
1960's
Long Thrust II
Grand Slam I
1981
Brim Frost 81
Solid Shield 81
Checkered Flag 81
Border Star 81
Bold Eagle 82
Sentry Castle 81
Blue Flag 81
1982
Display Determination
Gallant Eagle 82
1984
Yankee 84

Tactical Air Control Center
Roslyn, New York
Manning: 29 Officers, 87 Airmen
Web Site: Link
Letter of Redesignation and Realignment

Aircraft Control & Warning Group
New Cumberland, Pennsylvania ANG
Redesignated: 24 May 1946 from 559th Signal Air Warning Battalion
Allotted: 24 May 1946 to National Guard
Federalized: 16 January 1952
Mobilized: 1 December, 1951 – 1 December, 1953
Commanders:
1949 - 1951 Colonel George L. Haller
1951 - 1953 Colonel Anthony A. Manning

Tactical Control Group
Oregon ANG
Portland Air National Guard Base, Oregon
Formed: 1971
Subordinate units: as of 20 August, 1971:

Commanders:
1971 - 1973 Colonel John G. Nelson
1973 - 1974 Colonel John H. Barden
1974 - 1975 Colonel Ivar L. Anderson
1975 - 1976 Colonel Kenneth S. Solomon
1976 - Deactivation Colonel Joel B. Krausse
Manning: 38 Officers; 97 Airmen

Last Roll Call

Tactical Control Squadron
Tactical Air Control Center
Portland Air National Guard Base, Oregon
Formed: 1971
Personnel: Authorized 29 Officers, 87 Airmen

Air Operations Group
Pennsylvania Air National Guard
2008 - 20xx Colonel Joel F. Pannebaker (1 October 2008)

Letter of Activation; Letter of Redesignation and Realignment

Roster

Aircraft Control & Warning Group
Activated: 14 December 1950,as part of Georgia ANG, George Air Force Base, Marietta, Georgia
Redesignated: 24 May 1946 from 561st SAW Bn
Allotted: 24 May 1946 to National Guard
Federalized: 5 January 1951
Redesignated: 154th Tactical Control Group
Relocated: Stewart Air Force Base, Smyrna, Tennessee, 21 January 1951
Redesignated: 154th Aircraft Control and Warning Group, July 1951, at Stewart Air Force Base, Tennessee.
Mission: Engage in Tactical Operations or defensive operations as directed.
Mobilized: 8 January, 1951 – 8 October, 1952
Embarked: 7 June 1952
Arrived: 16 June 1952, Casablanca
Deployed: Nouasseur, French Morocco; Relocated 28 August 1952, Rabat Sale Airfield, French Morocco
Commanders:
Lt. Colonel James C. Grizzard
1952, Lt. Colonel Marion Clonts
Inactivated: 7 October 1952

Tactical Control Group
Buckley Field, Colorado ANG
Subordinate units: as of 20 August, 1971:

Commander:
Lt. Col Salvatore Villano, Jr. 7 December 1981

Exercises:
Owyhee Roundup - Idaho
See Saw - Idaho
1989
Central Enterprise 89

Tactical Control Squadron
Established: June 1990
Federally recognized: 16 July 1990

Tactical Control Flight
FACP
Relocated: 1 April 1976, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
Manning 1990: 10 Officers; 80 Enlisted; 25 Full time Air Technicians
Manning: December1992: 11 Officers; 110 Enlisted; 29 Full time Air Technicians
Manning: September 1992: 9 Officers; 121 Enlisted

Air Control Squadron
Redesignated: ACS 16 June, 1992
Barking Sands, Hawaii
Commander: Lt. Col. Myles Moriguchi
Notes:  Link
Letter of Redesignation and Realignment

Aircraft Control & Warning Group
Ohio
Redesignated: 24 May 1946 from 562d Signal Air Warning Battalion
Allotted: 24 May 1946 to National Guard
Mobilized: 1 November, 1951 – 1 November, 1953

Tactical Control Group
Located: 1952/1953 Donaldson Air Force Base, South Carolina
Manning: 38 Officers; 97 Airmen
Deployed: 1952, Spangdahlem Air Base, French Zone, West Germany
Mission: Equip and train personnel in procedures of maintaining and operating an Early Warning System for reporting hostile air activity and providing control of friendly aircraft.
Subordinate Units: 1952
121st Tactical Control Squadron, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany
114th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, Bitburg Air Base, Germany
123rd Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, Nellingen Kasserene, Germany
Subordinate units: as of 20 August, 1971:
155th Tactical Control Squadron, (TACC), Savannah, Georgia
117th Tactical Control Squadron, (CRC), Savannah, Georgia
115th Tactical Control Squadron, (CRP), Dothan, Alabama
129th Tactical Control Squadron, (CRP)Dobbins Air Force Base, Georgia
115th Tactical Control Flight, (FACP), Dothan, Alabama
129th Tactical Control Flight, (FACP), Dobbins Air Force Base, Georgia
Commanders:
1952, Lt. Colonel Gordon C. Hofman

Exercises:
1953
Operation Harvest Moon
Power Play

Tactical Air Control Center
Savannah, Georgia
Manning: 29 Officers, 87 Airmen

Letter of Redesignation and Realignment

Aircraft Control & Warning Group
O’Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois
Redesignated: 24 May 1946 from 565th Signal Air Warning Battalion
Allotted: 24 May 1946 to National Guard
Mobilized: 1 September, 1951
Federalized: 16 September 1951 at
Selfridge Air Force Base, Mt. Clemons, Michigan
14 September 1951
Deployed: O’Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois
Inactivated: February 6, 1952; returned to State control.

Tactical Control Group
Howard, Rhode Island ANG
Manning: 38 Officers; 97 Airmen
Subordinate units: as of 20 August, 1971:

Tactical Air Control Center
Howard, Rhode Island
Authorized personnel: 29 Officer, 87 Airmen

Letter of Redesignation and Realignment

Aircraft Control & Warning Group
Missouri ANG
Redesignated: 24 May 1946 from 582d Signal Air Warning Battalion
Allotted: 24 May 1946 to National Guard
Federalized: 1 November, 1951 – 1 November, 1953
Note: Air National Guard Organization stationed at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis County, Missouri.
Subordinate to: 10 November 1951, Tactical Air Command
Relocated: Between 6 November and 31 December 1951, Alexandria Airport, Louisiana
Commanders:
Lt. Colonel Richard J. Ruick

Exercises:
1952
Operation Longhorn - Fort Hood, Texas

Tactical Control Flight

Tactical Control Group
Inactivated: 1 November 1953
Activated: 1971
Located: Jefferson Barracks, Air National Guard Station, St. Louis, Missouri
Commanders:
Colonel William G. Work
1983, Lt. Colonel David L. Van Winkle
Colonel Frederick L. Bonney
Subordinate units as of 20 August, 1971:
157 TCS          (TACC), Jeff Barracks, Missouri
119 TCS          (CRC), Alcoa, Tennessee
128 TCS          (CRP), Cudahy, Wisconsin
133 TCS          (CRP), Ft Dodge, Iowa
110 TCF         (FACP), Alcoa, Tennessee
111 TCF         (FACP), Alcoa, Tennessee
Manning: 38 Officer; 97 Airmen
Mission: 1980, To maintain an operationally ready Tactical Air Control System for rapid deployment and employment for any contingency, to gain and maintain Air Superiority in Tactical Air Operations.
Subordinate Units as of 1980:
115th Tactical Control Flight
119th Tactical Control Flight
129th Tactical Control Squadron
133rd Tactical Control Flight
134th Tactical Control Flight

Exercises:
1953
Operation Tailwind - National test of Air Defense Command's radar network
1979
Ozark Dawn - All Air National Gurad Annual Training Exercise to concentrate on 3/5 level Airmen and Junior Officers in the areas of operations, maintenance and mobility.
1981
Blue Flag 81-2
Border Star 81
Quick Thrust 1-81
1983
Blue Flag 83-2
1984
Elf-One
Dense Crop
Crested Eagle 84
1985
Sentry Volunteer 85 - Training Exercise at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, 6 - 21 July 1985

Tactical Control Squadron
Located: Jefferson Barracks, Missouri
Authorized manning: 29 Officer, 87 Airmen

Air Control Group
Redesignated: ACG 16 June, 1992
Mission: Provide operationally ready Air Control System for rapid deployment and employment for any contingency with objective of gaining and maintaining air superiority within combat zone.
Note: Ordered to active duty by Governor to provide support and relief to civilian authorities for flood victims along Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.

Exercises:
Operation Deny Flight
Counter Drug Interdiction Missions
Arctic Express, United Kingdom
Dynamic Impact, Italy
Battle Griffin, United Kingdom
Oksboel, 1993, Germany and Denmark
Solid Stance 93, Norway (Acted as transitional aid during the switchover period from Oksboel to Solid Stance)

Letter of Redesignation and Realignment

Aircraft Control & Warning Group
Texas ANG
Activated: 1 April 1943 as 583rd Signal Air Warning Battalion
Deployed: August 1943 SW Pacific
Awards: Battle Honors: New Guinea Campaign, Southern Philippines Campaign, Bismarck Archipelago Campaign and Luzon Campaign
Relocated: 23 November 1945, United States
Redesignated: 24 May 1946 from 583d SAW Bn
Allotted: 24 May 1946 to National Guard
Federal Recognization: 23 May 1948
Federalized: 20 October 1951 at
Ellington AFB, Texas
Relocated: La Porte, Texas
Commander: 1951, Col. Kermit K. Black
Relocated: Kirkland AFB, New Mexico
Inactivated: 6 February 1952

Historical Articles: From Kathryn Black Morrow, one, two, three, four, five
Photo: Lt. Col. Kermit K. Black

Aircraft Control & Warning Group
Colorado ANG
Redesignated: 24 May 1946 from 596th Signal Air Warning Battalion
Allotted: 24 May 1946 to National Guard
Tinker AFB, Oklahoma 1 June 1951
Mobilized: 1 May, 1951 – 15 December, 1952
Inactivated: 6 February, 1952

160th Army Air Force Base Unit (Fighter Control)

Aircraft Control & Warning Group
Located: Spokane, Washington
Redesignated: 24 May 1946 from 597th Signal Air Warning Battalion
Allotted: 24 May 1946 to National Guard
Mobilized: 1 May, 1951 – 1 February, 1953
Located: Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska
Mission: 1951, Operate and maintain Air Defense Control Center at Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska and assist 449th Fighter Interceptor Squadron in Fighter Escort and Offensive Air Operations.
Mission: 1952, Secure information on all electronic and airborne activity within 5001st Composite Wing Area of Responsibility and provide for effective control of all Air Defense Measures against hostile electronic or airborne activity.
Note: 1952, Listed as being the last Air National Guard unit of this type.
Note: 1952, participated in Project Opportunity Strikes, which dealt with planning and testing of Alaskan Wide Very High Frequency, Point-to-point radio communications network.
Commanders:
January 1950, Colonel Ellsworth C. French
September 1952, Stephen B. Mack

Detachment
Located: April 1952, St. Lawrence Island

161st Army Air Force Base Unit (Fighter Control)
April 1944 (See 90th Fighter Control Squadron)

Aircraft Control & Warning Group
California ANG
Redesignated: 24 May 1946 from 598th Signal Air Warning Battalion
Allotted: 24 May 1946 to National Guard
Note: August 1949, The Headquarters 161st Aircraft Control and Warning Group will be trained on a man for man basis with Headquarters 505th Aircraft Control and Warning Group for the period of 21 August to 4 September 1949.
Federalized: 28 January 1952 at
Berkeley, California
Inactivated: 6 February, 1952

Aircraft Control & Warning Group
California ANG
Redesignated: 24 May 1946 from 599th Signal Air Warning Battalion
Allotted: 24 May 1946 to National Guard
Federalized: 1 May 1951 at San Fernando Valley Airport, Van Nuys, California
Relocated: (12 May?), Larson Air Force Base, Moses Lake, Washington
Commanders:
1951, Colonel Richard G. Andrew
Inactivated: 6 February, 1952

Tactical Control Group
Van Nuys ANGB, California

Army Air Forces Base Unit (Fighter Control)/Fighter Control Squadron
Note: Formerly Designated 91st Fighter Control Squadron

Radar Platoon

Radar Bomb Scoring
Located: Colorado Spring, Colorado
Activated: 6 June 1945
Redesignated: 63rd AAFB Unit (Radar Bomb Scoring) 24 July 1946

Air Traffic Control Unit
Located: Colorado

Air Traffic Control Squadron
New London, North Carolina ANG
Equipment: MPN-14K

Air Traffic Control Squadron
Notes: Became the 248th

Air Traffic Control Squadron
St. Joseph, Missouri
Deployed: Bagram AB, Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom, (?) – Early September 2002
Equipment: MPN-14K

Air Traffic Control Squadron
McEntire, South Carolina
Deployed: Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, September 2002 - January 2003

Combat Communication Group
Mission: (1987) To command, organize, equip, train and administer assigned forces to ensure readiness of those forces upon mobilization. To provide command and control communications and terminal Air Traffic Control services for Tactical Air Forces and to support emergency United States Air Force requirements for Air Traffic Control and Communications requirements.
Located: Springfield/Beckley Municipal Airport, Ohio
Commander:
1987, Colonel David F. Howard

Exercises:
1987
Healthy Star 87
Sentry Vigilance
Combat Challenge 87

Tactical Control Squadron
Mississippi ANG
Gulfport, Mississippi
May, 1987 – 16 June, 1992

Air Control Squadron
Gulfport, Mississippi
Redesignated: ACS 16 June, 1992
Deployments: Joint Service Exercise, Roving Sands 96; Kuwait, 1999; Noble Eagle

History

Air Traffic Control Squadron
State College, Pennsylvania ANG
Redesignated: 258th ATCS 17 May 1997 (see 114th)
Relocated: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1 September, 1997
Deployments: Rapid Guardian, Night Stalker (Drug interdiction in Columbia), Joint Endeavor, Sentry Vigilance, Fuertes Caminos and Global Yankee
Equipment: MPN-14K
Web site: Link

Radar Bomb Scoring
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Redesignated: 263rd AAFB Unit (Radar Bomb Scoring) from 63rd AAFB Unit (Radar Bomb Scoring) 8 March 1947
Reassigned: SAC (date unknown)
Redesignated: 3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron (SAC) on   21 Jul 1948   Effective Date: 01 Aug 1948

Detachment 263rd Army Air Force Base Unit
WDS: Kansas City, Missouri

Detachment 263rd Army Air Force Base Unit
Fort Worth, Texas

Detachment 263rd Army Air Force Base Unit
Denver, Colorado

Detachment 263rd Army Air Force Base Unit
Chicago, Illinois

Detachment 263rd Army Air Force Base Unit
Omaha, Nebraska

Detachment  263rd Army Air Force Base Unit
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Detachment  263rd Army Air Force Base Unit
Los Angeles, California  

Air Traffic Control Squadron
Kingsley Field, Oregon
Federal recognition: 1 October 1997
Commander: Lt. Col Ken Cook; 7 March 1998 Major Michael LaBounty
Deployment: Taszar AB, Hungary Operation Joint Guard.
Notes: History Link

Air Traffic Control Squadron
Kalaeloa, Hawaii
Deployment: Taszar Air Base, Hungary (1991); Diego Garcia (?) - 2003
Equipment: MPN-14K

Fighter Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron (Provisional)
Formed as: Detachment "D" 2 October 1943, Bradley Field, Connecticut
93d Fighter Control Squadron Parent Overseas Training Unit
Redesignated: 302nd Fighter Control Squadron, 20 January 1944
Iwo Jima
Note: Unit saw first action in combat zone in the Marianas Islands.
Mission: (April 1945) To control fighter aircraft in defensive measures and to guard against and warn of any enemy aircraft.
Redesignated: 529th Aircraft Control & Warning Group 16 July, 1946
Commanders:
Major Lee R. Jones 23 March 1944
Major Joe Bates
Captain Charles C. Dorsett, Last commanding officer
Web site: Link

Fighter Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 1 April 1943, Bradley Field, Connecticut
Mission: The control and direction of fighter and other aircraft on tactical missions, defensive and offensive; maintenance of air-to-ground communications; and the responsibility for the safe return of aircraft.

Detachment 1
Camp Bishagawa, Ie Shima, Okinawa mid 1945
Redesignated: July 1946 623rd AC&W Squadron

Fighter Control Squadron
1943/1944
Assigned: Western Signal Aviation Unit Training Center, Camp Pinedale, California

Fighter Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron
Reorganized: 16 July 1943, Oran, Algeria
Located: in the Cagliari fighter Sector
Mission: Provided the air defense of the southern half of Sardinia and East, West and South out to sea.
Inactivated: 12 September 1945, Pomigliano, Italy

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 1 April 1943, Hamilton Field, California
Relocated: 17 December 1943, Army Air Forces Station 486, Greenham Common, Berkshire, England
Landed: 1 July 1944, Omaha Beach, St. Laurents, France
Relocated: 2 July 1944, Cricqueville, France
Relocated: 10 July 1944, St. Pierre Eglise, France
Note: Unit provided controlled air coverage of the Brest Peninsula, France
Relocated: (date Unknown), Montfort Le Rotrou, France
Relocated: 16 September 1944, Vigneulles, France
Subordinate to: 1 October 1944, 19th Tactical Control Group (Provisional)
Relocated: 24 December 1944, Villerupt, France
Relocated: 8 February 1945, Luxembourg
Relocated: 31 March 1945, Ellern Junction, Germany
Relocated: 26 April 1945, Kasberg, Germany
Relocated: 15 July 1945, Furstenfeldbruck, Germany

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 6 June 1943, March Field, California
Assigned: to 4th Air Force until October 1943
Relocated: 9 January 1944, Ibsley, Hants, England
Note: Operated control stations at Biggin Hill, Tangmere, Middle Wallop, Stanmore, Renscombe, Isle of Night, and Beachy Head
Deployed: assigned to IX Air Defense Command until November 1944, then XIX Tactical Air Command
Andover, England
Note: France after the Normandy landings
Relocated: 17 April 1944, Andover, England
Relocated: 11 July 1944, Trivieres Calvados, France
Relocated: 22 July 1944, Le Vast Calvados, France
Relocated: 16 August 1944, Rennes, France
Note: Controlled night fighter squadrons flying P-61 aircraft.
Relocated: 10 September 1944, Verdun, France
Relocated: 5 November 1944, Vigneulles, France
Relocated: 17 November 1944, Vievill, France
Subordinate to: XIX Tactical Air Command
Relocated: 11 December 1944, Longeville, France
Relocated: 8 January 1945, Villerupt, France
Relocated: 26 March 1945, Ellern, Germany
Relocated: 30 April 1945, Weisenohe, Germany

Air (Defense) Division
Located: Nouasseur, French Morocco (1957)
Mission: in consonance with current French/American agreements, to man, equip, train and maintain a high state of readiness, an air defense organization which will provide warning of and an effective defense against hostile air operations in the Moroccan area; and to prepare subordinate fighter units in performance of the role of ground support.
Exercises:
Bronco No. 10
Dark Night
Subordinate Units:
734th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
735th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
736th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
737th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
842nd Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Equipment: Backup radars AN/TPS-1D and TPS-10D
Note: AN/TPS-10D and AN/TPS-1D backup radars described as obsolete World War II types with replacement parts being difficult to obtain. 70% of all communications and electronics failures were due to inadequate electrical power.

Fighter Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 15 June 1943, March Field, California
Deployed: Oran, North Africa
Relocated: 3 June 1944 Calcutta, India and entrained to Shwangliu, China
Chain of Command: 311th Fighter Group, 312th Fighter Wing, 14th Air Force
Located: July 1945, Anking, China
Relocated: October 1945, United States

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 20 October 1942, Hickam Field, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii
Mission: Build and operate a Very High Frequency Fighter Control System in the Hawaiian Islands.
Attached: 15th Fighter Group, 6- 17 March 1943
Relocated: 3 June 1944, Stanley Field, Hawaii
Note: 25 July 1944, Relieved of assignment to 318th Fighter Group, VII Fighter Command, Army Air Forces, and assigned to 7th Fighter Wing, 7th Air Force, Army Air Forces.
Redesignated: 1 August 1946, the 318th Fighter Control Squadron was Redesignated 616th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron and assigned to 526th Aircraft Control and Warning Group.

Fighter Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 15 July 1943, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
13th Air Force
Note: Formed from the merger of the 35th Fighter Control Squadron and the 58th Fighter Control Squadron.
Solomon Islands
Vella Lavella
Bougainvillea
Munda
Guadalcanal
Treasury Island
The Russells
Note: Operated VHF and VHF direction finding installations on Treasury, Bougainvillea, Green and Emirau Islands.
Relocated: 20 March 1945, Zamboanga, Philippine Islands
Relocated: 18 July 1945, Leyte, Philippine Islands
Note: Participated in Battle of Northern Solomons and Battle of Bismarck Archipelago.
Awards & Decorations: Commendation 13th Air Force

Fighter Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron (Separate)
Activated: 1 April 1943, North Camp, Orlando, Florida
Relocated: 30 December 1943, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Attached: to the 13th Air Force
Subordinate to: 24 July 1944, 13th Air Warning Group (Provisional)
Relocated: 30 September 1944, Toem, New Guinea
Subordinate to: 28 November 1944, XIII Fighter Command
Relocated: 1944, Guadalcanal
Relocated: 16 January 1945, Biak Island, Dutch New Guinea
Relocated: (April 1945), Palawan Island, Philippine Islands
Note: 27 October 1945, All personnel from 350th Signal Air Warning Company, transferred to 320th Fighter Control Squadron Separate.
Relocated: 29 November 1945, United States

Fighter Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 15 May 1943, Bradley Field, Connecticut
Deployed: 13 January 1944, Aldermaston, Berks, England
Relocated: 11 March 1944, Beaulieu, Hampshire, England
Note: Woolsington Airport (Newcastle), Northumberland, England
Relocated: 30 August 1944, Eure Et Loire, France
Relocated: 6 September 1944, Seine St Cise, France
Relocated: 9 October 1944, Chateau De Hun, Namur, Belgium
Mission: Operate direction finding sites in Holland, Luxembourg, Germany and Belgium
Relocated: 12 November 1944, Verviers, Belgium
Relocated: 19 December 1944, Liege, Belgium
Relocated: 21 January 1945, Verviers, Belgium
Relocated: 26 March 1945, Gruhl, Germany
Relocated: 11 April 1945, Gottingen, Germany
Relocated: 25 June 1945, Fritzlar, Germany

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 1 April 1943, Bradley Field Connecticut
Mission: In China, to provide by means of radio, air-to-ground and point-to-point communications as well as homing of aircraft. Warning of enemy aircraft was accomplished by a Chinese Ground Observation system.
China-Burma-India Theater
Chain of Command: 51st Fighter Group, 69th Composite Wing, 14th Air Force

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 1 April 1943, Bradley Field, Connecticut
Deployed: 15 December 1943 to 20 January 1944, Camp Don B. Passage, Casablanca, French Morocco
Relocated: January 1944, Nouvion, Algeria, North Africa
Relocated: Rome, 1944
Relocated: Southern France, 1944
Relocated: the Rhineland, 1945
Subordinate to: 325th Fighter Wing
Note: Spent the month of December 1944, preparing for inactivation
Deactivated: 1945

Tactical Control Squadron
Activated: 1947
Redesignated: ACS (?)

Air Control Squadron
Subordinate to: 325th Operations Group, 325th Fighter Wing, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida
Web site: Link

Training Squadron
Web site: Link

Roster

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 20 March 1943, Orlando, Florida
Note: Unit history states that the "Squadron is the first completely Mobile Fighter Control Squadron and...the first Fighter Control Squadron to be shifted from the role of an Air Defense unit to an Air Support unit.
Orlando, Florida
Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts
Port of Embarkation, New York
Gurock, Scotland
Aldermaston, England
Colchester, Essex, England
Ibsley, Hants, England
Landed near Grandcamp, France 7 June 1944
Cricqueville, France
Villedieu, France
Le Teilleul, France
Mamers, France
Aillieres, France
Versailles, France
Paris, France
Laon, France
Jamoulx, Belgium
Verviers, Belgium
Liege, Belgium
Bruhl, Germany
Marburg, Germany
Weimar, Germany
Commander:
2d Lt. Edward J. Dennis
1st Lt. JAck L. Powell
Major John P.G. McPhee
Major Henry L. Fetherson (France)
Lt. Col. C.B. Crockett
Major Michael J. Brady (May 1945)
Capt. Robert I. Jones

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 1 April 1943, Oakland, California
Italy
Landed: During August - September 1944, Southern France
Inactivated: 27 December 1945

Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron

Flight D
8 October, 1952
Redesignated: from 118th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron

Expeditionary Air Control squadron
Redesignated: Fall 2001 (from 9th Expeditionary ACS)
Control & Reporting Center
Kuwait
Call Sign: Absolut
Relocated: from Kuwait in 2003
Note:
Photos
386th Air Expeditionary Group at Ali Al Salem Air
Base, Kuwait

Absolut Off Station (WAV file)

Los Angeles Control Group, Army Air Force Base Unit
Located: 1947, San Pedro, California
Deactived: 28 February 1947
Note: Personnel and equipment transferred to Squadron D of 412th AAF Base Unit, at Long Beach Army Air Field, Long Beach, California.

San Francisco Control Group, Army Air Force Base Unit
Located: 1947, Berkeley, California
Deactivated: 28 February 1947
Note: Personnel and equipment transferred to Squadron B of 412th AAF Base Unit at Hamilton Field, California.

Seattle Control Group, Army Air Foce Base Unit/Western Aircraft Control and Warning Group
Located: 1947, Paine Field, Everett, Washington
Relocated: 1947, McChord Field, Washington
Redesignated: 28 February 1947, Western Aircraft Control and Warning Group (412th AAF Base Unit)
Mission: 1 March thru 30 April 1947, Maintaining and guarding of control centers, VHF D/F, radio relays and radar stations under its control.
Personnel: 1 March 1947, authorized: 77 Officers and 709 Enlisted; assigned: 62 Officers and 558 Enlisted.
Personnel: 1 May 1947, authorized: 78 Officers and 709 Enlisted; assigned: 53 Officers and 412 Enlisted.
Mission: 5 May 1947, (1) The primary mission of the Western Aircraft Control and Warning Group is to train assigned personnel in technical specialties listed in the present Group Manning Table and to integrate the personnel into operational units in conformity with the teams in T/O and E 1-600. (2) Maintaining and guarding of control centers, VHF D/F, radio relay and radar stations under control of this group. (3) Coordinating and utilizing local Night Fighter Squadrons in training of teams and units. (4) Preparing to fulfill such other missions as may be assigned by the Commanding General, Fourth Air Force.
Deactivated & Redesignated: 21 May 1947, as the 505th Aircraft Control and Warning Group
Commanders:
28 February 1947, Lt. Colonel Arthur R. Kingham

Group Headquarters
Formed: 28 February 1947
Located: 28 February 1947, McChord Field, Washington
Note: Personnel were assigned from Squadron A.

Squadron A
Formed: 28 February 1947
Located: Paine Field, Everetty, Washington
Note: The month of March 1947 was spent in the movement of unit from Everett, Washington to McChord Field, Washington
Located: 28 February 1947, McChord Field, Washington
Note: Personnel were transferred in grade from Squadron A of the 412th AAF Base Unit to Headquarters, 505th Aircraft Control and Warning Group, and the 634th and 635th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadrons.
Commanders:
28 February 1947, Major John Kersch

Squadron B
Formed: 28 February 1947
Note: 28 February 1947, Personnel and equipment from 411th AAF Base Unit
Located: 28 February 1947, Berkeley, California
Note: The month of March 1947 was spent in the movement of unit
Relocated: March 1947, Hamilton Field, California
Note: Personnel were transferred in grade from Squadron B of the 412th AAF Base Unit to the 636th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron.
Commanders:
28 February 1947, Captain John C. Benson

Squadron D
Formed: 28 February 1947
Located: Rollings Hills, California
Relocated: March 1947, Long Beach Army Air Field, Long Beach, California
Note: The month of March 1947 was spent in the movement of unit
Note: Personnel were transferred in grade from Squadron D of the 412th AAF Base Unit to the 637th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron.
Commanders:
28 February 1947, Captain Donald N. Hayes

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 1 May 1945, Camp Pinedale, California
Inactivated: 7 November 1945

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 1 May 1945, Camp Pinedale, California
Inactivated: 24 December 1945

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 1 May 1945, Camp Pinedale, California
Inactivated: 11 October 1945

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 23 June 1945, Weissenohe, Germany
Relocated: Marseilles, France
Relocated: 6 August 1945, Newport News, Virginia
Inactivated: 11 october 1945

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 23 June 1945, Weimar, Germany
Relocated: 25 June 1945, Fritzler, Germany

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 2 July 1945, Colly Weston, England
Relocated: 26 August 1945, United States
Inactivated: 7 November 1945

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 15 June 1945, Marina Di Pisa, Italy
Relocated: 20 August 1945, United States
Inactivated: 7 November 1945