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After arriving @ Jnane Rhater (there were several different spellings of the name) With the 129th AC/W Sqdn it was changed to 117th AC/W Sqdn and then shortly changed again to the 735th AC/W Sqdn then to the 734th AC/W Sqdn. I think that remained the 734th AC/W Sqdn untill deactivated in 1960's.

117th

Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron
Chatham Field, Savannah, Georgia ANG
Allotted: 24 May 1946 to ANG
Manning: 4 Officers, 23 airmen
Activated: January 8, 1951 for 21 months
Deactivated: 8 October, 1952
Deployed to: Site #3 Jnane Rhater, French Morocco, September, 1952
Redesignated: 735th AC&W
Redesignated: 734th AC&W
Relocated: Travis (previously Chatham) Field until September, 1957
Reassigned: December 1958 to157th TCG
Redesignated: Mid-1960s TCS

Tactical Control Squadron
CRC
20 August, 1971
Manning: 29 Officers 237 Airmen
Relocated: January 1974 to Hunter Army Airfield.
Relocated: 1976 Hunter Flight Line
Relocated: 3 November, 1979 to present site on Hunter
1 October, 1977 – 16 June, 1992
Deployments: 1984, Norway; 1988 Great Inagua, Bahamas; Providenciales (Turks and Caicos Island), Honduras

Air Control Squadron
Redesignated: ACS 16 June, 1992
Equipment: TPS-43E, TPS-75 (July, 1996)
Photos:
TPS-75, AFT 2007
Letter of Redesignation and Realignment

Awards:
AF Meritorious Unit Award, January - May 2006

I was assigned to the 129th AC/W Sqdn at Sewart AFB @ Smyrna, Tennessee. After arriving in Fr. Morocco, @ Nouasseur AFB, in 1952, I was transfered to the 117th AC/W Sqdn and sent to help establish Site # 3 @ Djenane Krater. In December I transfered back to Nouasseur AFB.