Provenance
Downloaded from governmentattic.org’s NORAD/NORTHCOM collection; also mirrored in The Black Vault’s AFHRA holdings. A work of the US government - public domain.
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This is the reference the histories cite when they need a unit lineage: every command, air division, sector and squadron in US and joint air defense from 1946 to 1980, with activation dates, redesignations, station assignments and inactivations. Compiled by the Office of History at the Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson AFB. If you want to trace what happened to the aircraft control and warning squadron at any USAF-manned Pinetree station (or the squadrons that ran PAVE PAWS), this is where the trail starts. It is also the source behind much of what Wikipedia says about Cold War air defense units, usually uncredited.