656th Radar Squadron, Saratoga Springs, NY
 Dedicated to the preservation of the 656th Radar Squadron memories
by the veterans of the Saratoga Air Force Station.
 Old Radar men never die - Their echos fade away in accordance with the inverse fourth power law.

USAF Air Defense Command 656th

656th Commanding Officers

Year Rank Name
1950 Lieutenant Colonel Edward G Hillery
1951 Captain Elmer Tackage
1951 Captain James Hartley
1952 Major John E. McHugh
1952 - 1953 Major Floyd C. Hildebrand
1953 - 1955 Major Frank J. Pietryka
1955 Major John A Green
1955 - 1956 Major Fred M. Lagergren
1956 - 1957 Major James A. Hester
1957 - 1958 Major Joseph D. Elsberry
1958 - 1959 Major Howard E. Mills
1959 - 1963 Lieutenant Colonel Charles A. Meyer
1963 - 1965 Major William MacMonagle
1965 - 1967 Major Paul J. Campion
1968 Captain Kenneth D. Haire
1969 - 1971 Major Sheldon L. Black
1971 - 1972 Captain Arthur Spellman
1972 - 1973 Captain James W. Head
1973 - 1975 Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard R. Pett
1976 - 1977 Major Melvin Edwards

 

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