4733d Air Defense Group

473ed Air Defense Group
Active 1957–1958
Country United States
Branch United States Air Force
Role Air Defense
Part of Air Defense Command

The 4733d Air Defense Group is a discontinued United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with the 64th Air Division, being stationed at Frobisher Bay AB, Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. It was last active on 1 May 1958

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History

Organized by Air Defense Command when ADC assumed the mission of Northeast Air Command after NEAC's inactivation.[1] The group's mission was to provide support for Distant Early Warning Line (DEW) radar sites. Also controlled two general surveillance radar sites in high latitudes of northern Canada, which had been assigned directly to NEAC's 64th Air Division.

Discontinued and DEW support mission taken over by 4601st Support Group (DEW), Paramus, New Jersey,[2] while its radar stations were assigned to the 4732d Air Defense Group at Goose AFB, Labrador.[3]

Lineage

Discontinued on 1 May 1958

Assignments

Components

Resolution Island AS, Northern Territories, Canada, 1 April 1957 – 1 May 1958
Frobisher Bay AB, Northwest Territories, Canada, 1 April 1957 – 1 May 1958

Stations

References

United States Air Force portal
Military of the United States portal

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

  1. ^ Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson AFB, CO, 1980, p. 89
  2. ^ Id., pp. 87, 89
  3. ^ Id. at pp. 104, 105

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