Air Warning Squadron 6
US Marine Corps unit
Air Warning Squadron 6 (AWS-6) was a United States Marine Corps aviation command and control unit that provided aerial surveillance and early warning of enemy aircraft during World War II. The squadron was activated on 1 January 1944 and was one of five Marine Air Warning Squadrons that provided land based radar coverage during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. AWS-6 remained on Okinawa as part of the garrison force following the Surrender of Japan. The squadron departed Okinawa for the United States in February 1946 and was quickly decommissioned upon its arrival in California. To date, no other Marine Corps squadron has carried the lineage and honors of AWS-6 to include Marine Air Control Squadron 6 (MACS-6).
Mission
Furnish, in combat and danger zones, early warning through long range search radar to friendly units; ground controlled interception of enemy planes by friendly planes; receive, evaluate, coordinate and disseminate through an Air Defense Control Center information on air and surface craft to all activities concerned.
Equipment
SCR-270
SCR-602
SCR-527
AN/TTQ-1
History
Air Warning Squadron 6 was commissioned on 1 January 1944, at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, on the authority of 3d Marine Aircraft Wing General Order #36-1943. After commissioning, the squadron immediately moved personnel and equipment to Marine Corps Outlying Field Oak Grove and Marine Corps Outlying Field Atlantic to begin training on available radar equipment. On 16 February the squadron was ordered to prepare for movement to the West Coast no later than 1 March 1944. The squadron returned to MCAS Cherry Point on 19 February 1944, to begin preparations.
The squadron departed North Carolina via train on 1 March 1944, arriving in San Diego on 7 March.
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