Sault Sainte Marie Air Defense Sector

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Sault Sainte Marie Air Defense Sector
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The Sault Sainte Marie Air Defense Sector (SsmADS) is an inactive

K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base, Michigan
.

History

SsmADS was established in November 1958 assuming control of former ADC Central Air Defense Force units in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The organization provided command and control over several aircraft and radar squadrons.

On 15 June 1960, the new

F-106 Delta Dart
) in a state of readiness with training missions and series of exercises with SAC and other units simulating interceptions of incoming enemy aircraft.

The Sector was inactivated on 1 April 1966 as part of an ADC consolidation and reorganization; and its units were reassigned to the 28th and 29th Air Divisions.

Lineage

  • Established as Sault Sainte Marie Air Defense Sector on 8 November 1958
Inactivated on 15 December 1963

Assignments

Stations

Components

Wings
K. I. Sawyer AFB
, Michigan, 1 February 1961 – 1 October 1963
  • 507th Fighter Wing
    (Air Defense)
Kincheloe AFB
, Michigan, 1 February 1961 – 1 October 1963

Groups

  • 56th Fighter Group
    (Air Defense)
K. I. Sawyer AFB
, Michigan, 1 April 1960 – 1 February 1961
  • 507th Fighter Group
    (Air Defense)
Kincheloe AFB
, Michigan, 1 April 1960 – 1 February 1961

Interceptor squadron

  • 445th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
Wurtsmith AFB
, Michigan, 1 April 1960 – 15 July 1963

Missile squadron

  • 37th Air Defense Missile Squadron
    (BOMARC)
Kincheloe AFB
, Michigan, 1 April 1960 – 1 October 1963

Radar squadrons

See also

  • List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations
  • Aerospace Defense Command Fighter Squadrons
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References

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

  • Lloyd H. Cornett and Mildred W. Johnson, A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.
  • Winkler, David F. (1997), Searching the skies: the legacy of the United States Cold War defense radar program. Prepared for United States Air Force Headquarters Air Combat Command.
  • Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History.
    ISBN 0-912799-12-9
    .
  • Radomes.org Sault Sainte Marie Air Defense Sector
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