Radar Calibration Det (218 NY)
WWII
Myitkyina, Burma

Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron (Special)(Separate)
Activated: 13 January 1942, Selfridge Field, Michigan
Relocated: 14 February1942, Los Angeles, California
Mission: Responsibility for operation of Air/Ground radio stations which served fighter aircraft assigned to Los Angeles, California Air Defense Wing
Redesignated: 20 May 1942, Fighter Control Squadron
Philippines
Note: Participated in Hollandia invasion & Wakde Island landing
Relocated: November 1944, Leyte, The Philippine Islands

Fighter Control Squadron
Located: July 1942, Los Angeles, California

Tactical Control Group
Established: 30 October 1943
Organized: 1 November 1943, Montbrook Army Air Field, Williston, Florida
Relocated: 21 March 1944, From Montbrook Army Air Field, Williston, Florida to Orlando, Florida
Redesignated: 13 April 1944, 3rd Tactical Control Group
Redesignated: 17 May 1944, 1st Tactical Control Group, Esler Field, Louisiana
Reorganized: 7 September 1944, 1st Control Group ( Test)
Mission: October 1944, Individual and team training of all flying personnel

Air Detachment (Provisional), Type 1
Formed: 31 May 1943, Newport News, Virginia
Subordinate Units: 1st Air Combat Control Squadron, Amphibious

Campaigns:
North Arfrica
Sicily
Italy

Operations:
1944
Fabius Miracle

Air Combat Control Squadron, Amphibious
Activated: 15 January 1944, Orlando, Florida
Relocated: February 1944, to Ft. Hamilton, New York
Relocated: March 1944, to USS Ancon in Plymouth, England
Mission: 6 June 1944, Directed fighter aircraft during allied invasion of Normandy
Subordinate to: IX Tactical Air Command
Note: Activated as an amphibious fighter control squadron to serve aboard headquarters ships, handled air control and fleet warning on Admiral John L. Hall’s staff aboard the USS Ancon during the assault phase of the invasion of Normandy.
Note: Trained at various Royal Air Force Stations in England until 22 September 1944. Sailed Aborad U.S.S. Ancon for United States from Plymouth England 28 September 1944.
Relocated: 9 October 1944, Charleston, South Carolina
Relocated: 10 Ocotber 1944, Hunter Field, Georgia
Relocated: 22 November 1944, Bradley Field, Connecticut
Relocated: January 1945, Camp Stoneman , Pittsburg , California
Relocated: March 1945, Clark Field, Luzon , Philippines, via US Army Transport Sea Snipe
Inactivated: 15 November 1945 at Clark Field, although most of squadron personnel had been transferred out several months earlier

Operations:
Neptune
Overlord
Shingle
Priceless
Avalanche
Husky
Tarawa

Tactical Air Division (Advanced Echelon)
Note: 1944, Participated in Maneuver Number 5 of 2nd Army Tennessee maneuvers. Purpose of maneuvers was training air units in operation under field conditions, promoting and perfecting air/ground coordination, developing Aircraft Warning and Flight Control Systems suitable for use in rugged terrain, developing satisfactory air/ground liaison system, employing air power in three priorities of offensive action, developing adequate airdrome defenses with Antiaircraft units assigned to Air Corps and developing satisfactory Standing Operating Procedure for use by Tactical Air Division.

Fighter Command

Detachment
Mission: Continued throughout 1944 to be defense of Iceland. This responsibility was exercised by means of fighter aircraft of 33rd Fighter Squadron and by operational control of antiaircraft units and air warning system.
Note: Detachment also organized and controlled tow target missions for antiaircraft and carried out several reconnaissance and photographic missions
Commander:
1944, Colonel William R. Clingerman Jr.

Tactical Air Force (Provisional)
Established: 25 October 1944
Mission: To give air support to Sixth Army Group (U.S. Seventh Army, and First French Army on the front between 12th Army Group and Switzerland).
Equipment: MEW 31 October 1944
Equipment: By unit

Radar Bomb Scoring Group (SAC)
Carswell AFB, Texas
10 August 1954 - 21 July 1961
CO: Lt Col (then Colonel) Otis Parks

Combat Evaluation Group (SAC)
Barksdale AFB, Louisiana
Constituted/Activated: 24 July 1961, operational 1 August 1961
Detachments
Web: Link 1; Link 2; Link 3; Link 4;
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Direct Air Support Flight
Mission: 1967, To develop and maintain Direct Support Center and Tactical Air Control Party personnel at a high level of combat readiness, immediately available to be deployed for incorporation as operating elements of a Tactical Air Control System.

Airways and Air Communications Squadron/Group
Constituted: 28 January 1952, 1 st Airways and Air Communications Service Squadron, Mobile
Activated: 1 March 1952, 1 st Airways and Air Communications Service Squadron, Mobile, Johnson Air Base (later, Air Station), Japan
Redesignated: 1 July 1961, 1 st Mobile Communications Squadron
Located:  August 1961 - 15 January 1975, Clark Air Base, Philippines
Redesignated: 1 October 1961, 1 st Mobile Communications Group
Redesignated: 1 July 1974, 1 st Mobile Communications Squadron
Located: 5 January 1975 - 1 February 1976, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia
Redesignated: 15 January 1975, 1 st Mobile Communications Group
Located:  February 1976, Lindsey Air Station, Germany
Redesignated: 24 March 1976, 1 st Combat Communications Squadron
Redesignated: 1 January 1981, 1 st Combat Communications Group
Redesignated: 15 October 1984, 1 st Combat Information Systems Group
Redesignated: 1 October 1986, 1 st Combat Communications Group
Redesignated: 31 July 1991, 1 st Combat Communications Squadron
Located:  October 1992, Sembach Air Base, Germany
Located:  July 1994 - to date, Ramstein Air Base, Germany
Equipment: MPN-13

Decorations:
1 January 1967 - 15 February 1968, Presidential Unit Citation (Southeast Asia)
1 January 1969 - 31 December 1969, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with Combat "V" Device
1 January 1971 - 31 December 1971 , Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with Combat "V" Device
1 January 1972 - 31 December 1972, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with Combat "V" Device
15 January 2004 - 31 October 2005, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with Combat "V" Device
January 1955 - Nov 1956 , Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
24 July 1963 - 31 December 1964, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 January 1965 - 31 December 1965 , Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 January 1966 - 31 December 1966, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 January 1968 - 31 December 1968, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 January 1975 - 31 December 1976, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 January 1977 - 31 December 1977, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 January 1978 - 31 December 1978, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 January 1979 - 31 December 1980, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 January 1981 - 31 December 1981, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 January 1982 - 31 December 1982, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 January 1983 - 31 December 1984, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 January 1985 - 31 December 1985, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 January 1986 - 31 December 1986, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 July 1987 - 30 June 1989, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 July 1989 - 30 June 1991, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 July 1991 - 30 March 1993, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 April 1993 - 31 March 1995, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 June 1993 - 30 June 1994, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 Apr 1995 - 1 June 1996, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 October 1996 - 30 September 1998, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 October 1998 - 30 June 2000, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
30 June 2000 - 31 May 2002, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 June 2002 - 31 December 2003, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
1 July 2002 - 30 June 2004, Air Force Meritorious Unit Award
1 January 1969 - 26 July 1969, Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation
21 July 1972 - 15 August 1972, Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation
1 April 1966 - 28 January 1973, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm

Interceptor Command Aircraft Warning Service
Ft. Lawton, Seattle, Washington, December 1941
Commander: 2nd Lt. Walter D. McClellan
Signal Headquarters
Signal Headquarters Company

Island Air Command
Activated: October 1942, in Fiji
Subordinate Units:
35th Fighter Control Squadron
578th Signal Air Warning Battalion
698th Signal Reporting Company
755th Signal reporting Company

Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron (Light Mobile, Provisional)
April 1943 – March 1944

Air Combat Control Squadron (Amphibious)
Activated: 15 January 1944, Orlando, Florida
Relocated: February 1944, To U.S.S. Catoctin for trial operations in Chesapeake Bay
Relocated: March 1944, Mediterranean Sea (Algeria)
Subordinate to: Parent Unit, 4th Air Detachment (Provisional); which directed fighter aircraft during the initial invasions of Sicily and Italy
Mission: 15 August 1944, Directed fighter aircraft during allied invasion of Southern France
Note: From U.S.S. Catoctin, Amphibious Flag Ship for overall operations during Operation Dragoon (Attack on Southern France), Squadron directed air defense and attacks.
Subordinate to: XII Tactical Air Command (Advance)
Subordinate Unit: FDT No. 13 (see below)
Note: Activated as an amphibious fighter control Squadron to serve aboard headquarters ships, handled air control for the Air Task Force Commander aboard the USS Catoctin during the assault phase of the invasion of Southern France. During the four and one-half days the Catoctin was in control, approximately 300 fighter-bomber missions operated in the area. Of these, about 50 were anti-transport missions given out by the controllers at the order of the Commanding General, XII Tactical Air Command. Toulon, France and Naples, Italy.
Relocated: 17 November New York, New York
Relocated: November 1944, Bradley Field, Connecticut
Relocated: 27 February 1945, Fort Lawton, Seattle, Washington
Relocated: 11 March 1945, Honolulu, The Hawaiian Islands, via U.S.S. General E.T. Collins
Relocated: 17 March 1945, Hickam Field, The Hawaiian Islands, and prepared for amphibious assaults on Japan
Commanders:
1944, Captain Rode

Operations:
15 August 1944, Operation Bigot-Dragoon - Invasion of Southern France

Tactical Control Group
Mission: 1945, to provide Aircraft Warning System within a designated area, provide a means for controlling Tactical Air Operations, both offensive and defensive, and to provide liaison between ground forces and air forces.

Direct Air Support Flight
Mission: 1967, To develop and maintain Direct Support Center and Tactical Air Control Party personnel at a high level of combat readiness, immediately available to be deployed for incorporation as operating elements of a Tactical Air Control System.

Combat Communications Group /MOB
Patrick AFB, Florida

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Air Force, Fighter Command, Signal Air Warning
Activated: 29 August 1940, Mitchel Field, New York, as 2nd Operations Company
Mission: to organize Aircraft Warning Service on paper, train civilian personnel in its operation and to provide experienced cadres to units activated in the he future.
Relocated: 23 June through 2 July 1941, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Redesigned: 8 July 1941 to (?)
Mission: Maintenance and operation of 3rd Fighter Command communications

Tactical Control Group
Activated: 15 December 1942, as the 660th Signal Aircraft Warning Company, at Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics, Orlando, Florida.
Relocated: Doe Lake, Camp Ocala, Florida
Relocated: Montbrook Army Air Field, Florida
Redesignated: 13 April 1944, 3rd Tactical Control Group
Mission: To observe and report to Tactical Control Center very detailed information of all air activity in designated area of coverage.
Redesignated: 17 May 1944, 1st Tactical Control Group, Esler Field, Louisiana

Radar Calibration Detachment
Subordinate to: July 1944, 13th Air Warning Group (Provisional)
Subordinate to: 28 November 1944, returned to control of XIII Fighter Command per General Order No. 177, dated 28 November 1944.

Radar Calibration Squadron
Notes: 4 March 1947, Reduced to zero (0) strength

Direct Air Support Flight
Mission: 1967, To develop and maintain Direct Support Center and Tactical Air Control Party personnel at a high level of combat readiness, immediately available to be deployed for incorporation as operating elements of a Tactical Air Control System.

Combat Communications Group/MOB
Tinker AFB, Oklahoma
Equipment: TPN-19

Roster

Fighter Command, Aircraft Warning Company
See: Army, 4th Aircraft Warning Company

Air Detachment (Provisional)
Subordinate Unit: 2nd Air Combat Control Squadron (Amphibious)
Mission: Directed fighter aircraft during initial invasions of Sicily and Italy

Combat Communications Group
Altus AFB, Oklahoma
Equipment: MPN-14G

Air Force Fighter Command, Signal Headquarters Company, Aircraft Warning Service
Activated: 8 July 1941, Seattle, Washington
Mission: Defense of United States Pacific Coast
Departed: 26/27 October 1942 From San Francisco, California
Arrived: 18 December 1942, Port Moresby, New Guinea
Relocated: 17 January 1943, Nazdab, New Guinea
Note: 13 July 1944, Advanced Echelon moved to Owi Island
Relocated: 22 October 1944, From Owi Island to Leyte, Philippines
Relocated: 29 January 1945, From Leyte to Mindoro Island, Philippines
Relocated: 24 March 1945, From Mindoro Island, Philippines to Clark Field, Luzon, Philippines
Commanders:
(?) - 8 February 1945, 1st Lt. Charles B. Blair
8 February 1945 - (?) 1st Lt. Hiram B. Daugherty

Tactical Air Control Group/Tactical Control Group
Reorganized: 1 October 1961
Redesignated: 5 Tactical Control Group is derived from 5 Communications and Control Group which moved to Clark Air Base, Republic of The Philippines, from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa.
Mission: Provide Tactical Control and Communications support to 7th Air Force, 13th Air Force and Pacific Air Forces. Develop and maintain readiness for rapid deployment of Tactical Air Control resources including Mobile Command Post; provide ground environment for air component commander surveillance and control within his area of responsibility; provide emergency Tactical AIr Control facilities to replace or augment PACAF fixed communications and electronics installations damaged or destroyed.
Mission: Early 1966, expanded to include requirement to support the combined United States/Host Country objectives in Southeast Asia (SEA), by developing capability of maintaining an electronics environment (Aircraft Control and Warning resources), throughout SEA Theater of operations. Tasked to determine feasible locations in SEA for Radar and Communications systems and was considered Engineering and Installation (E&I), agency for Aircraft Warning and Control in SEA.
Note: Operated Aircraft Control and Warning subsystems of 407L Tactical Air Control Systems (TACS) including one Tactical Air Control Center (TACC), one Control and Reporting Center (CRC), Two Control and Reporting Posts (CRP) and four Forward Air Control Posts (FACP).
Located: Korea
Note: 1968, Personnel and Radio equipment sent to Manila, Republic of the Philippines, to assist in earthquake rescue efforts.
Redesignated: (14 August 1972) 6305th Tactical Control Flight (See IRIS Number 00900683)
Master Control and Reporting Center (MCRC)
Activated: 8 January 1980 (IRIS 01044399)
Note: Master Control and Reporting Center became operational and Tactical Control Operations Teams at Control and Reporting Centers at Palgongsan (15 March 1986)and Mangilsan deactivated.
Mission: 1984, Manage, plan and coordinate for operational readiness of Korean Tactical Air Control System.
Note: 1984, was responsible for integration of Stinger Program into Korean Tactical Air Control System.
Note: Mid 1980's, Group utilized Ground Radar sites with Air and Ground support provided by Airborne Forward Air Controllers (AFAC), Air Support Operations Center (ASOC), Tactical Air Control Parties (TACP), and communications necessary to put it together under Tactical Air Control Center (TACC). Operated Korean Tactical Air Control System (KTACS).
Note: 1985, Group assisted with first complete evaluation of Stinger Missile functions.
Relocated: 1988/1989, From Osan to Suwon Air Base, Korea
Reassigned: 1990/1991, 5th Tactical Control Group (formerly 5th Tactical Air Control Group) reassigned from 7th Air Force to 51st Tactical Fighter Wing and relocated from Suwon Air Base to Osan Air Base, Korea.
Commanders:
1966, Lt. Colonel Harold L. Kevern
1969, Colonel Samuel D. Berman
1969, Colonel Paul D. Jessup
(?) - 21 July 1987, Colonel James L. Altemose
21 July 1987 - (?) Colonel Robert E. Hammond
Equipment: AN/TPS-43E, AN/FPS-100, FPS-89, UPA-62 indicators.

Subordinate Units as of 1970:
603rd Tactical Control Squadron
604th Tactical Control Squadron
605th Tactical Control Squadron, Clark Air Force Base, Republic of the Philippines
608th Tactical Control Squadron, Clark Air Force Base, Republic of the Philippines
Detachment 1
Located: 1970, Taipei Air Station, Taiwan
Detachment 2
Located: 1970, Tsegu Air Base, Republic of Korea
Subordinate Units as of 1982:
81st Tactical Control Flight
621st Tactical Control Squadron
604th Direct Air Support Squadron
603rd Tactical Air Control Center
Subordinate Units as of 1983:
603rd Tactical Air Control Center Squadron
604th Direct Air Support Squadron
621st Tactical Control Squadron
623rd Tactical Control Squadron
Subordinate Units as of 1985:
623rd Tactical Control Squadron
603rd Tactical Air Control Center Squadron
621st Tactical Air Control Squadron
Note: 1987, Master Control and Reporting Center (MCRC) at Osan
Commander:
1960's Colonel S.D. Berman
(?) - 15 June 1984, Colonel Robert J. Watson
15 June 1984 - (?), Colonel Henry J. Cochran
1987, Colonel James Altemose
Note: Accepted first Adaptable Surface Interface Terminal (ASIT), for overseas area. Issues worked include ASIT , Mode IV and AN/TPS-43 radar.
Activated: (1987) 6140th Tactical Control Flight (see 6140)

Exercises:
1967
Corona Harvest
1969
Focus Lens
Corona Harvest
1970
Corona Harvest
1983
Cope Strike
Cope Jade
Team Spirit 83
Ulchi Focus Lens
1984
Cope Thunder 84-4
Cope Thunder 84-5
Cope Jade
Team Spirit 84
Ulchi Focus Lens 84
1985
Team Spirit 85
Cope Jade 85-1 - Exercise and evaluation of Korean Air Defense and Tactical Air Control Systems.
Cope Thunder 85-1
Eagle Claw
Harvest Coconut
Beverly roadrunner
1986
Cope Max
Minex 86
Team Spirit 86
1987
Cope Jade 87-1
Fuji IV
Cope thunder 87-1
Team Spirit 87
Ulchi Focus Lens 87
MCRC at Osan participated in: 1987
Cope 87-1
Minex 87
Team Spirit
Cope Thunder

Awards:
5th Air Force Commander's Special Recognition, Large Unit Plaque

Roster

Direct Air Support Flight
Mission: 1967, To develop and maintain Direct Support Center and Tactical Air Control Party personnel at a high level of combat readiness, immediately available to be deployed for incorporation as operating elements of a Tactical Air Control System.

Tactical Control Operations Team (TCOT)
Korea
Deactivated: 31 August 1986, Yongmun San, Last mountain top Tactical Control Operational team,

Combat Communications Group/MOB
Robins AFB, Georgia
Commander: Col Madera
Equipment: Three (3) MPN-13’s, One (1) MPN-14, TPN-19

Photos - Korea 1968

Direct Air Support Flight
Located: 1965, Misawa Air Base, Japan
Mission: 1967, To develop and maintain Direct Support Center and Tactical Air Control Party personnel at a high level of combat readiness, immediately available to be deployed for incorporation as operating elements of a Tactical Air Control System.

7th Fighter Command
WWII
Mission: Immediately after 7 December 1941 command came to control Aircraft Warning, Antiaircraft Artillery, and shore based marine and navy aircraft. Additional mission: training of fighter pilots in interception and navigation for 5th Air Force and 13th Air Force. Brig General Robert W. Douglass, jr. assumed command from Brig General Howard C. Davidson October 1942. Gained responsibility of air defense of Midway, Canton and Christmas Islands
Subordinate Units:
18th Fighter Control Squadron
302nd Fighter Control Squadron
305th Fighter Control Squadron
318th Fighter Control Squadron
568th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
576th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
580th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
581st Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
598th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
599th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
680th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
696th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
697th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
704th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
722nd Signal Aircraft Warning Company
726th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
727th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
728th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
746th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
748th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
759th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
763rd Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Note: Command split into Mobile Tactical Command and Air Defense Wing (7th Fighter Wing) for Hawaiian Islands. Preparations were made for movement of advanced echelon to a forward area. Command's forward units were engaged in air support of ground forces on Saipan, Tinian and Guam.

Signal Company, Aircraft Warning, Hawaii
Activated: 14 August 1940, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii

Fighter Wing, Aircraft Wrning and Control Group/Provisional Control Group Special
Note: See 526th Aircraft Control and Warning Group
Organized: 25 January 1945, Group Headquarters
Redesignated: 12 March 1946, Provisional Control Group
Redesignated: 1 August 1946, 526th Aircraft Control and Warning Group
Commanders:
20 January 1945 - (?), Major Charles P. Davis
(?) - (?) Colonel Charles J. Harrison
Inactivated: (May 1946)

Aircraft Control & Warning Group (Special)
Organized: And assigned to 7th Fighter Wing, September 1944 (derived from 580th and 581st Signal Aircraft Warning Battalions (Special))
Subordinate Units:
18th Fighter Control Squadron
302nd Signal Aircraft Warning Squadron
568th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
576th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
580th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
581st Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
Note: 1945, Provided Aircraft Warning Units in support of forces on Kwajalein Island, Marshall Islands.
Designated: 7th Provisional Control Group 12 March, 1946
Redesignated: 526th AC&WG 1 August, 1946.

Air Support Control Squadron
1944
Subordinate to: 9th Air Force

Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron (Separate)
Activated: 9 December 1941, Mitchel Field, New York
Mission: To provide Air and Ground Communications and establish a Fighter Sector or Air Warning
Relocated: 15 May 1944, Nadzab, New Guinea
Relocated: 5 July 1944, Biak
Relocated: 1944, Hollandia
Relocated: 30 December 1944, Leyte, The Philippine Islands
Relocated: 1 August 1945, Fort McKinley, Manila, The Philippine Islands
Relocated: 16 November 1945, from Manila, to the United States
Inactivated: During November 1945

Detachment A

Detachment B
Landed: May 1944, Biak Island Assault
Note: Biak Island Assault. " Det. B 8th FC Sq, will land at ????(sp), as soon as the tactical situation permits and augment Co B in establishing the 33rd FCC (Temp). It will reinforce Det "A"(?) and establish an Identification Section

IX Interceptor Command, Signal Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Aircraft Warning Service
Located: Army Air Base, New Orleans, Louisiana
Mission: To establish and maintain all communications for a Fighter Command Headquarters.
Relocated: 17 June 1942, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida

Flying Control Squadron (Provisional)
Organized: 9 November 1944
Mission: To provide safe operation for aircraft during takeoffs and landings
Relocated: November 1944, From Belgium to Chantilly, France
Relocated: 15 April 1945, Germany
Note: Participated in the Northern France Campaign
Note: Unit was divided into sections and was located in different areas.

Expeditionary Air Control Squadron
Redesignated: 1997/1998 (from 4414th ACS Provisional)
Subordinate: to the 9th Air Expeditionary Group, Ali Al Salem, Kuwait

Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron (SAC)
Carswell AFB, Texas
10 August 1954 - 19 September 1966
Detachments

Roster
Skyspot

Fighter Command (Aircraft Warning Service)
Located: Elmendorf Field, Anchorage, Alaska
Activated: 14 December 1941
Mission: To provide facilities and service for Signal Communications for 11th Air Force and staff; provide Aircraft Warning Service; intercept enemy signals; provide for security of friendly communications; and provide navigational communications facility.
Redesignated: 15 March 1945, from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Air Warning Service to Signal Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Air Warning Service

Headquarters Company
Aleutian Island Chain

Company (?)
Located: Fort Richardson, Alaska

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 24 March 1942, in Alaska
Mission: To direct interceptions
Note: Participated in the Attu Campaign
Redesignated: 25 September 1942, From 28th Fighter Control Squadron
Note: 3 August, 1944, visited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Flight Control Squadron
Located: 1943, Alaska
Note: Unit was in operation on 10 October 1943, but was not Activated until 12 December 1943.
Mission: To assist air operations personnel in effecting a safe and orderly progress of air traffic
Disbanded: 15 April 1945
Equipment: SCS-51 Instrument Landing System

Radar Calibration Detachment
Activated: 9 June 1948, McChord AFB, Washington
Subordinate to: 505th AC&W Group
Mission: 1948, Calibrate all radar sets presently in the 505th Group surveillance system, as directed by the Commanding Officer, 505th Group. Survey the Northwest area for the best tactical locations for radar sites, for the purpose of establishing a permanent air surveillance system in accordance with the mission of the 505th Group as set forth in the mission letter of 20 September 1948 from Fourth Air Force. Supervise use of aircraft for calibration and flying minimums of rated personnel of the 505th Group in the Northwest area. Continuous operational and administrative training of all squadron personnel and other personnel assigned for the purpose of training. Establish necessary security measures in the Group Flight Section area.
Mission: 19 January 1949, Provide continuous calibration for the radar installations of the 505th Group. Conduct special calibration flights and siting in the Fourth Air Force Area as directed by Headquarters 4th Air Force. Supervise use of assigned aircraft the primary administrative and routine flights of a secondary priority. Conduct continuous operational and administrative training of all squadron personnel and other personnel assigned for the purpose of training; make available the squadron facilities to the 531st Aircraft Control and Warning Group for training, insofar as facilities will permit. Establish necessary security measures int he 11th Calibration Flight areas. Perform such other special projects as may be directed by the Commanding Officer, 505th Group.
Note: Instructions concerning Squadron from Group Mission, March 1949:
The 11th Radar Calibration Detachment will provide continuous calibration for the radar installations of the 505th Aircraft Control and Warning Group, in accordance with the priority as established by the Commanding Officer, 505th Aircraft Control and Warning Group.
Subordinate to: September 1949, 78th Fighter Wing, Hamilton Air Force Base, California
Relocated: to relocate to Hamilton Air Force Base, California, not later than 5 October 1949
Commanders:
18 June 1948 - 22 September 1948, Captain Kenneth Procter
22 September 1948 - 13 October 1948, 1st Lt. Jack L Higgins
13 October 1948 - (?), Major Otto B. McIver
1949, Captain Kenneth E. Procter
1949, 1st Lt. Duncan R. Shand
July 1949, Captain James W. Tarbell
Equipment: November 1948, AN/TPS-1B

Mobile Siting Unit
Located: 10 December 1948, Moses Lake, Washington
Equipment:
Radar
Note: 1948, Probably the AN/TPS-1B
Miscellaneous
Two 2 1/2 ton trucks and trailers
One Carryall

Tactical Control Group
Located: Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska
Redesignated: 8 July 1981, from 531st Aircraft Control and Warning Group to Tactical Control Group
Subordinate Units: 1982
743rd Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
744th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
748th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
794th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
795th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
3rd Air Support Operations Center
Redesignated: 1989, as a Wing

Radar Bomb Scoring (SAC)
March AFB, California 10 August 1954 - 22 August 1966
Detachments

Roster
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Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron (SAC)
Turner AFB, Georgia
Notes: On the map, you can see the outline of the base, which was closed in 1974.
Detachments

Skyspot

Radar Calibration Unit
Located: Mitchel Air Force Base, New York
1949

Air Force Fighter Command, Signal Headquarters Company, Aircraft Warning Service
Activated: 2 January 1943, Mitchel Field, New York
Relocated: 4 January 1943, From Mitchel Field, New York to Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Relocated: 4 September 1943, from Drew Field, Tampa, Florida to Camp Stockman, California
Relocated: 29 September 1943, From Camp Stockman, California to Hamilton Field, California
Relocated: 3 November 1943, From Hamilton Field, California to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Relocated: 29 September 1944, From Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands to Maffin Bay, New Guinea
Note: 20 October 1944, Became responsible for manning and defending defense positions in East Tor River Sector area in vicinity of Maffin Bay, Netherlands, New Guinea
Relocated: 20 November 1944, From Maffin Bay, Netherlands, New Guinea to Sansapor, Netherlands, New Guinea.
Relocated: 20 February 1945, from Sansapor, Netherlands, New Guinea to Leyte Island, Philippines
Relocated: 1 March 1945, From Leyte Island, Philippines to Puerto Princesa, Palawan Island, Philippines.
Commanders:
2 January 1943 - 10 February 1944, Captain Louis G. Nixon
10 February 1944 - (?) 1st Lt. Endsley M Darr

3rd Radar Calibration Detachment
Relieved: 14 August 1945, from attachment to Signal Headquarters Company

Air Warning Group (Provisional)/Aircraft Control & Warning Group Provisional
Activated: 24 July 1944, at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands (ISIS Ref B0721)
Mission: To administer Signal Aircraft Warning Units and Fighter Control Squadrons assigned to the XIII Fighter Command.
Objective: 24 July 1944, The preparation of two Air Warning and Fighter Control teams for the "Gossipmonger" and "K-1" task force Operations. The return, to the continental United States, of certain Signal Air Warning units with two years of overseas service specified by the War Department. Preparation of logistics on Air Warning task force units ans supervising shipping of same.
Subordinate to: XIII Fighter Command
Note: 24 July 1944, XIII Fighter Command Signal Section became the basis for the 13th Air Warning Group.
Note: 24 July 1944, Fighter Director Centers being operated by 13th Air Warning Units on 24 July 1944 were located Russell Islands, Minda, Vella La Vella, Treasury Island, Bouganville, Green Island and Emirau Island.
Subordinate Units: as of 24 July 1944
Signal Headquarters Company, Air Warning Service XIII Fighter Command
3rd Radar Calibration Detachment
319th Fighter Control Squadron
320th Fighter Control Squadron
551st Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
557th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
578th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
579th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
674th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
689th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
701st Signal Aircraft Warning Company
702nd Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Subordinate Units: Released as of 9 August 1944
578th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
579th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
701st Signal Aircraft Warning Company
702nd Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Subordinate Units: Released as of 28 November 1944
3rd Radar Calibration Detachment
320th Fighter Contorl Squadron
557th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
689th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Signal Headquarters Company, Aircraft Warning Service, XIII Fighter Command
Subordinate Units: as of January 1945
319th Fighter Control Squadron
551st Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
674th Signal Aircraft Warning Company
Note: 8 January 1945, All personnel on duty with Headquarters and/or Headquarters Detachment, 13th Air Warning Group (P) were on a detached service status from other organizatiions within the XIII Fighter Command.
Note: January 1945, included 3rd Radar Calibration Detachment
Personnel: January 1945, 313 Officers and 3836 Enlisted
Disbanded: 2 January 1945, G.O. No. 3 Headquarters Thirteenth Air Force
Leyte Island, Philippine Islands
Arrived: Japan, 15 September 1945
Discontinued: 15 October 1945
Commanders:
24 July 1944 - 15 November 1944, Lt. Colonel Lucius L. Moore
23 September 1944 - 7 December 1944, 1st Lt. Robert L. Calzetta (HQ and HQ Company) {B0721}
16 November 1944 - (?), Major John R. Dean

Headquarters Detachment
Commanders:
January 1945, 2nd Lt. George W. Roberts

Aircraft Control Squadron, Mobile
Commander: Major Roy L. Dismukes
History: 13th_AC&WG

DDT No. 13 Fighter Direction Tender
Note: During the invasion of Southern France, a British-manned, converted LST with a mixture of U.S. and British equipment, controlled defensive patrols over the beaches and broadcasted unidentified and hostile tracks to the 2nd Air Combat Control Squadron (Amphibious).  This GCI fighter control ship (FDT #13) had radar equipment that consisted of CGI and Type 11, the presentation of which could be remoted to the air control room.

Fighter Control Squadron
Located: July 1942, Willows Airport, Willows, California

Fighter Command (Provisional) Signal Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Aircraft Warning Service
Located: 1943 Drew Field, Tampa, Florida

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 9 January 1942, as the 51st Interceptor Control Squadron, March Field, California
Redesignated: 20 May 1942, 51st Fighter Control Squadron
Redesignated: 1 June 1942, 15th Fighter Control Squadron
Relocated: 17 January 1943, Fort Dix, New Jersey
Relocated: 7 February 1943, Casablanca French Morocco
Relocated: May 1943, Tunisia
Relocated: 31 July 1943, Palermo, Sicily
Relocated: 11 October 1943, Naples, Italy
Relocated: (date unknown), Castiglioncello, Italy
Note: Participated in the Italian Campaign
Relocated: 1944, Rosignano, Italy
Relocated: 9 November 1944, Castiglioncello, Italy
Relocated: 22 March 1945, Pisa, Italy
Relocated: 22 April 1945, San Felice, Italy
Relocated: May 1945, Marina Di Pisa, Italy
Disbanded: 15 June 1945, Marina Di Pisa, Italy

16th Fighter Command, Signal Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Aircraft Warning Service
Relocated: 15 July 1943, Largo, Florida

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 2 February 1943, Albrook Field, Canal Zone
Located: December 1944, Albrook Field, Canal Zone
Inactivated: 15 October 1946

Tactical Control Squadron (?)
Ko Kha, Thailand
Deactivated: 31 May 1976

Air Corps Interceptor Control Squadron/ Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 12 February 1942, Wheeler Field, Hawaii
Redesignated: 21 May 1942, Fighter Control Squadron
Relocated: Fort Shafter
Relocated: 15 May 1944, Wheeler Field, The Hawaiian Islands
Relocated: 2 June 1944, Stanley Field, Hawaii
Notes: Attached to 15th Fighter Group, 6-17 March 1943, assigned 26 March 1943-22 July 1944
Relocated: 10 November 1944, Fort Shafter, The Hawaiian Islands

Tactical Control Group (Provisional)
Subordinate to: 9th Air Force
Subordinate Unit: 312th Fighter Control Squadron

Air Corps Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 20 November 1941 at Hamilton field, California
Transferred: 9 February 1942, Wilmington North Carolina, for submarine patrol duty under Eastern Defense command and First Air corps
Transferred: 20 April 1942, Orlando Florida
Transferred: 24 February 1943, Norfolk, Virginia
Assigned: Norfolk Fighter Wing
Subordinate to: 1st Fighter Command
Note: Assumed duties relinquished by 33rd Fighter Control Squadron, and beginning in March 1943, began network of radar stations.
Redesignated: 20 May 1942, 20th Fighter Control Squadron
Transferred to: 26 November 1943, Langley Field, Virginia
Inactivated: 7 April 1944 and 160 Army Air Forces Base unit activated using same personnel.

Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron

Fighter Interceptor Control Squadron/ Fighter Control Squadron
China-India-Burma Theater
Chain of Command: 23rd Fighter Group, 68th Composite Wing, 14th Air Force
Located: Kunming, China
Relocated: Kweilin, China
Note: Activated Fighter Control radio station at Nancheng, Kiangsi Province, China
Mission: Plotting enemy planes, contacting and directing American aircraft, and handling of administrative messages.
Note: 14 September 1944, The Eastern Net Control Station was changed from Kweilin to Liuchow
Note: June 1945, Equipment and personnel held in readiness at Luliang Headquarters for future installations at bases in the East.

Headquarters Company
Located: Liuchow, China
Relocated: 18 September 1944, Tsuyung, China

Detachments: Stationed at various locations in Eastern China
Mission: Engaged in combat operations in surrounding areas

Air Corps Interceptor Control Squadron
Activated: 21 October 1941, Hamilton Field, California
Located: November 1943, Berkeley, California

Fighter Control Squadron
Located: July 1942, Hamilton Field, California

26th Fighter Command, Signal Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Aircraft Warning Service

Fighter Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron
Redesignated: 25 September 1942, 11th Fighter Control Squadron

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 25 May 1943, Dale Mabry Air Base, Tallahassee, Florida

Aircraft Interceptor Control Squadron
Constituted: 22 October 1941
Redesignated: 15 May 1942, Fighter Control Squadron
Redesignated: 23 May 1942, 35th Fighter Control Squadron
Note: See 528th Aircraft Control and Warning Group; See Radar Operations - Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics.

Fighter Control Squadron
Redesignated: 15 May 1942, as Fighter Control Squadron

Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 6 March 1942, France Field, Canal Zone
Redesignated: 4 June 1942, Fighter Control Squadron
Permanent Change of Station: 23 March 1943, Albrookfield, Canal Zone

Air Corps Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 11 December 1941
Note: Formed out of the 33rd Pursuit Group
Subordinate to: Mitchel Field, New York
Located: 13 December 1943, Initial Station, Oro Bay, New Guinea
Landed: 6 May 1944, Milne Bay, New Guinea
Relocated: 30 July 1944, forward area of Sansapor, Netherlands East Indies
Note: Control Center established on Middleburg Island
Subordinate to: V Fighter Command
Ceased Operations: 2 March 1945, 35th Fighter Control Center ceases operations, control squadron evacuated to Biak Island.
Located: (March/April 1945), Officially stationed at Laoag
Subordinate to: 86th Fighter Wing
Note: During the month of May 1945, Squadron divided into two approximately equal Detachments: Loaog, Philippine Islands, and Middleburg Island, Dutch New Guinea.
Note: June 1945, united squadron to be located near Bambam, Luzon, Philippine Islands
Note: August 1945, All squadron personnel on detached service to various units of the 5276th Aircraft Control and Warning Group (Provisional).
Note: October/November 1945, Squadron to be returned Stateside for Inactivation.

Detachment A
Special Fighter Control Center
Located: Glucester

Detachment B

Assault Echelon (Det B)

Rear Echelon (Det B)

Detachment
Located: May 1945, Loaog, Philippine Islands

Detachment
Located: May 1945, Middleburg Island, Dutch New Guinea

Tactical Control Group

Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron (Separate)
Activated: as 31st Interceptor control Squadron, Paine Field, Everett, Washington
Activated/Redesignated: 4 June 1942, 35th Fighter Control Squadron, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Note: Participated in Papuan (through January 1943) and New Guinea Campaigns
Located: March 1944, Nadzab, New Guinea for preparations for return to United States
Note: Preparations for move to Binmaley, Luzon, Philippine Islands, scheduled for 15 January 1945
Note: See 528th Aircraft Control and Warning Group, see 51st Fighter Control Squadron
Fiji
Note: Merged with the 58th Fighter Control Squadron to form the 319th Fighter Control Squadron
Located: Wakde Island, New Guinea
Relocated: 2 July 1944, Kamiri Airstrip, Noemfoor Island, for Operation Tabletennis
Note: 15 September 1944, preparation for invasion of Morotai Island in the Halmaheras
Note: November 1944, Prepared for movement to Lingayen Gulf area, Luzon, The Philippine Islands
Note: March 1945, Operation of Mobile Fighter Sector at Manila, manned by approximately one third of squadron personnel.
Note: (April 1945) Operated 45th Fighter Control Center at Caloocan, Pangasinian, Luzon, Philippine Islands, and furnished men and equipment for operation of sub-sector of the 51st Fighter Control Center, Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Operations concentrated on provision of movements information to other sectors and homing lost aircraft.
Note: With the end of the war came a situation which made the movement of the 527th Aircraft Control Squadron an impossibility. This impasse was due to the fact that the 5276th Aircraft Control Group was a Provisional Group, and was ordered to disband after the end of the war. To circumvent this situation, the 35th Fighter Control Squadron was "reborn."
Commanders:
1 October 1945, Major George Smith
7 October 1945, Captain Samuel M. Arthur
Embarked: 15 - 18 October 1945 from Subic Bay via LST's.
Disembarked: 27-28 October, Sasebo Harbor, Japan
Note: Road Convoys departed Sasebo Harbor, Japan on 27 - 29 October 1945 for 80 mile trip to Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan.
Subordinate to: October 1945, V Fighter Command
Relocated: 4 November 1945, Sanitization, Japan, which was directly across the bay from Fukuoka on a peninsula.
Operational: 26 November 1945, started Controlled Operation with AN/CPS-1 radar set. SCR-584 radar was also operational for use in height-finding.
Equipment: AN/CPS-1, November 1945; SCR-584, 1945; AN/TPS-10, 1945;

Communication Section
Disbanded: Formerly a communications section of 35th Aircraft Interceptor Control Squadron, Disbanded: 25 July 1943.

Fighter Control Squadron (Separate)

Rear Echelon
Mission: Fighter Control Center Provisional
Nadzab - Kamiri

Detachment A
Mission: Special Fighter Control Center
Located: May 1944, Gusap

Detachment B Ass. Ech. (Abbreviation meaning unknown)
Mission: Tactical Fighter Control Center
Nadzab

Rear Ech. Det B
Mission: Tactical Fighter Control Center
Nadzab

First Detachment
Redesignated: 1 April 1946, relieved of status as the 35th Fighter Control Squadron (Separate), and redesignated First Detachment, 35th Fighter Control Squadron.
Relocated: 1946, Shiganoshima, Japan

Second Detachment
Located: March 1946, Satsuma Air Base, Tokyo, Japan
Note: 25 March 1946, 597th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion inactivated; all personnel reassigned to and formed the Second Detachment of the 35th Fighter Control Squadron.
Note: 1 August 1946, all personnel assigned to newly activated 611th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron.

Air Corps Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron
Organized: 13 February 1942, Losey Field, Puerto Rico
Redesignated: 5 June 1942, Fighter Control Squadron
Note: Divided into two detachments 2 September 1943, one at Henry Barracks, Cayey, Pureto Rico, the second at Hato Field, Curacao, Netherlands, West Indies, and assigned to Dakota Field, Aruba, Netherlands, West Indies
Note: Hato field was located on the Island of Guracao in the Caribbean within sight of the Venezuelan shores.
China-Burma-India Theater
Chain of Command: 51st Fighter Group, 69th Composite Wing, 14th Air Force
Note: See 56th Fighter Control Squadron
Reorganized: 7 October 1944, Bradley Field, Connecticut
Relocated: October 1944, Mitchel Field, New York
Note: The squadron had outlying stations at Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island, Suffolk Army Air Base, New York and at Bridgeport, Connecticut
Note: November 1944, Began preparations for overseas movement. Initial location in china Theater, Kunming

Headquarters
Curacao, Netherlands, West Indies

Detachment
Aruba, Netherlands, West Indies

Detachment:
Henry Barracks, Pureto Rico

Detachment:
Hato Field, Curacao, Netherlands, West Indies

Fighter Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron
Hollywood, California

Fighter Control
WWII - Philippines

Fighter Control Center
WWII - Philippines
Subordinate to: 86th Fighter Wing, V Fighter Command, Fifth Air Force

Fighter Control Squadron
Located: Harding Field, Louisiana
Relocated: Orlando, Florida, Fighter Command School
Inactivated: personnel and equipment transferred to Squadron 9, 901st Base Unit, Army Air Forces Tactical Center, Orlando, Florida
WWII - Philippines

Air Corps Interceptor Control Squadron (Separate)/Fighter Control Squadron (Separate)
Organized: 19 December 1941, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, Florida
Selected for overseas duty: 26 December 1941
Arrived: Port Phillip, Melbourne, Australia, 1 February 1942.
Redesignated: 25 June 1942, Fighter Control Squadron
Moved to: New Guinea, January 1943
Subordinate to: 49th Fighter Group until September 1943
Note: 22 September 1943, Separated from 49th Fighter Group and designated 49th Fighter Control Squadron (Separate).
Note: Initial Fighter Control Center, Dobodura
Notes: Designated as separate unit and operated under the Fifth Fighter Command in the Pacific Theater until the end of the war.
Note: 1944, Prepared for movement to Hollandia area.
Relocated: (June 1944?) Hollandia Airstrip
Note: One of three squadrons that participated in Morotai invasion.
Relocated: (October 1944?), Leyte (Talcoban), Philippine Islands
Relocated: (May1945), San Roque, Leyte, Philippine Islands
Note: 28 April 1945, Established Sector Operations office.
Subordinate to : 16 May 1945, relieved from assignment to 85th Fighter Wing, and assigned directly to Fifth Fighter Command.
Subordinate to : 15 June 1945, relieved from assignment to Fifth Air Force and Fifth Fighter Command and assigned to 85th Fighter Wing, Air Defense Command, Philippine Islands.
Note: Operated 40th Fighter Control Center Leyte, Samar Area and from 1 July 1945 to 2 September 1945, operated 42nd Fighter Control Center at San Jose, Mindoro.
Note: September 1945, prepared to inactivate

Assault Detachment B
Note: Was to land in vicinity of Palo and prepare for establishment of air-ground communications for aircraft control.

Fighter Control Squadron
Located: March 1944, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, England
Subordinate to: 1944, 66th Fighter Wing, during Operation Market Garden (Airborne invasion of Holland)

Fighter Interceptor Control Squadron/ Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 18 December 1941, Hamilton Field, California, as 35th Interceptor Control Squadron
Fighter Control Center
Note: First Aircraft Warning Operation Services furnished in the Theater by the 51st Fighter Control Squadron.
China-Burma-India Theater/Salween Valley, Burma
Chain of Command: 51st Fighter Group, 69th Composite Wing, 14th Air Force
Note: See 15th Fighter Control Squadron
Redesignated: 29 May 1942, Fighter Control Squadron
Relocated: 20 September 1942, Kanjikeah, Assam, India
Relocated: 1944, China
Note: Participated in Burma Campaign, and in battle for Myitkyina
Note: (May 1945), Operated direction finding stations at Saga, Nam Kan, Bhamo, Lashio, and Myitkyina
Inactivated: June 1945, Ghamo, Burma, Fighter Control and Direction Finding Station was closed.
Note: July 1945, Bhamo Fighter Control Station was reopened.
Note: August 1945, Bhamo and Myitkyina Control Centers closed, and left only homing devices in operation.
Relocated: September 1945, Piardoba, inda, to prepare to move to United States.
Note: Participated in Burma Campaign and Battle for Myitkyina

Detachment B
Guadalcanal, 25 June 1943
Inactivated: 15 July 1943

Air Corps Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron
Note: Air sea rescue; Wing operations room, Saffron Walden Control Center, England
Activated: 14 November 1942, Selfridge Field, Michigan
Relocated: 7 July 1943, Saffron Walden, England
Note: 1943, operated stations at Norholt, Wittering, Hemsby, Nix, Leiston, Monckton, Beachy Head, Wittersham, Halnaker Hill, Palling, Heathfield, Southminister, and Studland in England. Controlled 4th Fighter Groups at Debden, 56th Fighter Group at Halesworth, 78 Fighter Group at Duxford, and 353rd Fighter Group at Metfield. Controlled air-sea rescue stations at Beachy Head, Cockthorps, Halnaker Hill, Hemsby, Leiston, Monkton, Skidbrooke, Wittersham, and Wix, England
Note: 1944, Elements of squadron stationed at Welwyn, Wood Farm, Cockthorpe, Skidbrooke, Hemsby, Wix, Leiston, Monkton, Beachy Head, Halnaker Hill, Wittersham, Heathfield, Studland, Southwold and Greyfriar, England.
Note: Transmitted radio communications to aircraft and stations, and received radio communications from them.
Inactivated: 16 October 1945

Radar Squadron (Mobile)
Deployment: Dhahran

Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 1 December 1941, Paine Field, Washington
Relocated: January 1942, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Signal Aircraft Warning Detachment
Activated: 7 April 1945, Pinedale, Fresno, California
Discontinued: 14 August 1945, After word received of the Japanese surrender, training in the field was discontinued and men transferred to new projects.

Company X

Company Y

Interceptor Control Squadron/ Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: December 1941, Charlotte, North Carolina as 56th Air Corps Interceptor Control Squadron
Note: Operated and maintained communications equipment for the New York Air Defense Wing from February 1942 to August 1943.
Redesignated: 23 May 1942, Fighter Control Squadron
Arrived: 10 December 1943, Milne Bay,New Guinea
Relocated: January 1944, Saidor, New Guinea
Relocated: Maffin Bay, New Guinea
Relocated: 15 September 1944, Morotai, Dutch East Indies
Relocated: Luzon, the Philippine Islands
Note: Helped to establish the 36th Fighter Control Center.
Relocated: November 1945, Korea
Notes: Participated in invasion of Morotai Island, Dutch East Indies, September 1944; established 36th Fighter Control Center
Located: July 1945, Blue Beach, Northeast of Dagupan, Pangasinan, Luzon, Philippine Islands
Awards: Commended for homing assistance to allied planes returning from strike on Hollandia on 15 December 1944.

Fighter Control Squadron
Wittem, Holland

Fighter Interceptor Control Squadron/Fighter Control Squadron
Activated: 24 December, Harding Field, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Relocated: July 1943, Attu, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Brisbane, Australia
Note: Merged with the 35th Fighter Control Squadron to form the 319th Fighter Control Squadron

Detachment
Located: October 1945, Shemya, Alaska
Note: Directed flights of P-38 aircraft in response to radar signals of suspected japanese aircraft. Dispatched fighter aircraft to intercept numerous Japanese balloons in April 1945.

Detachment B
Located: March 1942, Australia
Relocated: May 1942, Tongatabu, Island
Relocated: April 1943, Espiritu Santo Island
Relocated: June 1943, Guadalcanal Island

Army Air Force Base Unit (Radar Bomb Scoring)
Designated: 63rd AAF Base Unit (RBS) from 206th AAFB Unit (RBS) 24 July 1946
Relocated: Mitchel AFB, New York Approximately 15 August 1945
Reassigned: 5 March 1946 to Fifteenth AF
Relocated: Colorado Springs, Colorado 5 March 1946
Redesignated: 263rd AAFB Unit (RBS) 8 March 1947
Reassigned: SAC (date unknown)

Fighter Wing
Located: Mediterranean Theater of Operations
Equipment: 1943, AMes Type 8, 2 each; Type 9, 2 each; Type 15, 2 each; Type 14, 1 each

Tactical Control Flight
MacDill AFB, Florida
Activated: June 25, 1969
Subordinate to: 507th Air Control Wing
Redesignated: 9 August 1988, Tactical Control Squadron

Tactical Control Squadron
Redesignated: Tactical Control Squadron 9 August 1988.
Deployments: 1991 – 1 September, 1993 Caribbean (Operation Coronet Macaw)

Air Control Squadron
Redesignated: 1 November, 1991
Subordinate to: 56th Operations Group, 56th Fighter Wing, MacDill AFB on 23 March 1992. 
Reassigned: 1 October, 1993 347th Operations Group, 347th Wing, Moody AFB, Georgia

Inactivated: March 2000
Call sign: Alleycat

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Tactical Control Flight
Homestead AFB, Florida
Commanders:
Capt Frank Tullis
Maj Cook
Relocated: Robbins AFB, Georgia (Late 1971, early 1972)
Relocated: Fort Monroe, Virginia
1976 – 29 February, 1988
Redesignated: 9 August 1988, Tactical Control Squadron
Equipment: TPS-44; TPS-43E (Winter 1977-78)
Note: Unit was form from a split-off of the 729/728/4465

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Tactical Control Squadron
Redesignated: 9 August 1988, Tactical Control Squadron, from Tactical Control Flight

Tactical Control Flight
Formed: Late 1969 (From 728th Det. 1)
Redesignated: 9 August 1988, Tactical Control Squadron
Equipment: TPS-44; TSQ-61

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Tactical Control Squadron
Redesignated: 9 August 1988, Tactical Control Squadron, from Tactical Control Flight

Expeditionary Air Control Squadron
Deployment: Afghanistan
Call Sign: Trump Card

Air Control Squadron
Transferred to: 1st Fighter Wing 15 March 1992
Deployed: Operation Noble Anvil (The Balkan War), outside Budapest, Hungary; Operation Allied Force

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Tactical Control Squadron