755th Radar Squadron

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

755th Radar Squadron
Emblem of the 755th Radar Squadron
Active	1951-1969
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Type	General Radar Surveillance

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

Lineage

• Constituted as the 755th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron on 14 November 1950

Activated on 27 November 1950

Redesignated 755th Radar Squadron (SAGE), 15 October 1960

Inactivated on 30 September 1969

Assignments

• 541st Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 27 November 1950
• 30th Air Division, 6 February 1952
• 4706th Defense Wing, 16 February 1953
• 37th Air Division, 8 July 1956
• Chicago Air Defense Sector, 1 June 1959
• 20th Air Division, 1 April 1966
• 30th Air Division, 1 December 1967
• 34th Air Division, 1 July 1968 – 30 September 1969

Stations

• Elkhorn, Wisconsin, 1 January 1951

Site redesignated Williams Bay AFS, Wisconsin, 1 December 1953

• Arlington Heights AFS, Illinois, 1 April 1960 - 30 September 1969

References

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

• Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, [1] Archived 23 November 2006 at the Wayback Machine Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson AFB, CO (1980).
• Winkler, David F. & Webster, Julie L., Searching the Skies, The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program, [2] US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).