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Central Air Defense Force
Central Air Defense Force
	Regions of ADC Air Defense Forces and known Air Force Bases with ADC units, 1949–1960 Note: States containing ADC bases of Western & Central ADF and Eastern & Central ADF identified as Central/Western and Central/Eastern
Active	1951–1960
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	Air Defense
Part of	Air Defense Command

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The Central Air Defense Force (CADF) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command being stationed at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Missouri. It was inactivated on 1 July 1960.

History

CADF was an intermediate-level command and control organization of Air Defense Command. Its origins date to 1 March 1949 when Continental Air Command (ConAC) reorganized Air Defense Command when it became an operating agency. Air defense units within the Continental United States (CONUS) were given to the Eastern and Western Air Defense Liaison Groups, with Western and Eastern Air Defense Forces activated on 1 September 1949.

Central Air Defense Force (CADF) was activated as a third subordinate region under the re-established Air Defense Command in February 1951 to better organize ADC units in the Central and Southeast United States, its initial region being defined in the west as the area east of the 102nd degree of longitude, from the Canada–US border in the north to the Rio Grande border between the United States and Mexico in the south. The eastern boundary of the CADF was the area west of the 90th degree of longitude from the Michigan shoreline of Lake Superior south to the point of the Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee state boundaries, and eastward to the Atlantic Ocean coastline along the Tennessee–Kentucky and Virginia–North Carolina border, with all areas south and west of those boundaries.

The delineation was again adjusted in March 1956 to the region generally to the east of the 114th degree of longitude, roughly along the eastern borders of Idaho, Nevada and California from the Canada–US border in the north to the Mexican border in the south. The southeast region east of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico was reassigned to EADF.

Central Air Defense Force was inactivated on 1 July 1960, with its assigned units reassigned either to 29th, 30th or 33rd Air Divisions, or to the new Air Defense Sectors created with the advent of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system.

Lineage

Constituted as Central Air Defense Force (CADF) on 5 February 1951

Activated on 1 March 1951

Inactivated on 1 July 1960

Assignments

Air Defense Command, 1 February 1951 – 1 July 1960

Stations

Kansas City, Missouri, 5 February 1951
Grandview AFB, Missouri, 24 February 1954

Site re-designated: Richards-Gebaur AFB, Missouri, 27 April 1957 – 1 July 1960

Components

Air Divisions

20th Air Division

Activated at: Grandview AFB, Missouri on 8 October 1955

Assigned to Central Air Defense Force

Site re-designated: Richards-Gebaur AFB, Missouri, 27 April 1957

Inactivate on 1 July 1960

29th Air Division

Stationed at: Great Falls AFB, Montana

Re-assigned to Central Air Defense Force 16 February 1953 from Western Air Defense Force (WADF)

Site re-designated: Malmstrom AFB, 15 June 1956

Re-designated 29th Air Division (SAGE) and reassigned to Air Defense Command, 1 January 1960

31st Air Division

Stationed at: Fort Snelling, Minnesota on 20 May 1951

Re-assigned to Central Air Defense Force 16 February 1953 from Eastern Air Defense Force (EADF)

Inactivated 1 January 1960

33d Air Division

Stationed at: Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, 20 May 1951

Re-assigned to Central Air Defense Force 16 February 1953 from Eastern Air Defense Force (EADF)

Moved to Oklahoma City AFS, 1 July 1956

Re-designated 33d Air Division (SAGE) and reassigned to Air Defense Command, 1 January 1960

34th Air Division (Defense)

Stationed at: Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, 16 February 1953

Re-assigned to Central Air Defense Force 16 February 1953 from Western Air Defense Force (WADF)

Inactivated 1 January 1960

35th Air Division

Activated at: Kansas City, Missouri on 1 July 1951

Assigned to Central Air Defense Force

Moved to Dobbins AFB, Georgia on 1 September 1951

Re-assigned to Eastern Air Defense Force (EADF), 10 April 1955

Wings

122d Fighter-Interceptor Wing

Federalized Indiana Air National Guard, 10 February 1951

Stationed at Baer Field, Indiana

Re-assigned to Central Air Defense Force 1 December 1951 from Eastern Air Defense Force (EADF)

Inactivated and returned to state control, 7 February 1952

128th Fighter-Interceptor Wing

Federalized Wisconsin Air National Guard, 10 February 1951

Stationed at Truax Field, Wisconsin

Re-assigned to Central Air Defense Force 20 May 1951 from Eastern Air Defense Force (EADF)

Inactivated and returned to state control, 6 February 1952

133d Fighter-Interceptor Wing

Federalized Minnesota Air National Guard, 10 February 1951

Stationed at Holman Field, Minnesota

Re-assigned to Central Air Defense Force 20 May 1951 from Eastern Air Defense Force (EADF)

Moved to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, 28 June 1951

Inactivated and returned to state control, 6 February 1952

Groups

153d Aircraft Control and Warning Group

Federalized Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 16 January 1952

Stationed at New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, assigned to Central Air Defense Force

Personnel used to fill vacancies in the 35th Air Division; inactivated 6 February 1952

159th Aircraft Control and Warning Group

Federalized Oklahoma Air National Guard, 1 June 1951

Stationed at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma

Attached to 33d Air Division, 19 June 1951

Inactivated and returned to state control, 6 February 1952

161st Aircraft Control and Warning Group

Federalized California Air National Guard, 28 January 1952

Stationed at Berkeley, California, assigned to Central Air Defense Force

Personnel used to fill vacancies in numerous CADF units; inactivated 6 February 1952

543d Aircraft Control and Warning Group

Assigned to Central Air Defense Force

Stationed at Fort Snelling, Minnesota on 1 January 1951

Re-assigned to 31st Air Division (Defense), 10 July 1951

4676th Air Defense Group

Assigned to Central Air Defense Force

Stationed at Grandview AFB, Missouri

Re-assigned to 33d Air Division, 2 March 1954

References

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

USAF Aerospace Defense Command publication, The Interceptor, January 1979 (Volume 21, Number 1)
Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4
Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9
A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, by Lloyd H. Cornett and Mildred W. Johnson, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
Winkler, David F. (1997), Searching the skies: the legacy of the United States Cold War defense radar program. Prepared for United States Air Force Headquarters Air Combat Command.

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-|image= [[File:North American F-86D Sabre USAF.jpg|300px]]
+|caption= Regions of ADC Air Defense Forces and known Air Force Bases with ADC units, 1949–1960
-|caption= North Amerian F-86D Sabre at the [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]] assigned to the 97th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]], [[Ohio]], during the mid-1950s.
+Note: States containing ADC bases of Western & Central ADF and Eastern & Central ADF identified as Central/Western and Central/Eastern
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-The '''Central Air Defense Force''' (CADF) is an inactive [[United States Air Force]] organization.  Its last assignment was with [[Air Defense Command]] being stationed at [[Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base]], [[Missouri]].  It was deactivated on July 1, 1960.
+The '''Central Air Defense Force''' (CADF) is an inactive [[United States Air Force]] organization.  Its last assignment was with [[Air Defense Command]] being stationed at [[Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base]], [[Missouri]].  It was inactivated on 1 July 1960.
-CADF was responsible for the air defense of the Central and Southcentral United States (1951–1960). CADF's area was essentially the area east of the [[Rocky Mountains]] to the west of the [[Appalachian Mountains]],  from the [[Canada|Canadian border]] south to the [[Gulf of Mexico]].
 ==History==
+CADF was an intermediate-level command and control organization of Air Defense Command.  Its origins date to 1 March 1949 when [[Continental Air Command]] (ConAC) reorganized Air Defense Command when it became an operating agency.  Air defense units within the Continental United States (CONUS) were given to the Eastern and Western Air Defense Liaison Groups, with Western and Eastern Air Defense Forces activated on 1 September 1949.
-===Lineage===
-* Established as '''Central Air Defense Force''' (CADF) and organized 5 February 1951
+Central Air Defense Force (CADF) was activated as a third subordinate region under the re-established Air Defense Command in February 1951 to better organize ADC units in the Central and Southeast United States, its initial region being defined in the west as the area east of the 102nd degree of longitude, from the [[Canada–United States border|Canada–US border]] in the north to the [[Rio Grande]] border between the United States and Mexico in the south.  The eastern boundary of the CADF was the area west of the  90th degree of longitude from the Michigan shoreline of Lake Superior south to the  point of the Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee state boundaries, and eastward to the Atlantic Ocean coastline along the Tennessee–Kentucky and Virginia–North Carolina border, with all areas south and west of those boundaries.
-: Organized 1 March 1951
-: Inactivated 1 July 1960
+The delineation was again adjusted in March 1956 to the region generally to the east of the 114th degree of longitude, roughly along the eastern borders of Idaho, Nevada and California from the Canada–US border in the north to the Mexican border in the south.  The southeast region east of the [[Mississippi River]] to the [[Gulf of Mexico]] was reassigned to EADF.
+Central Air Defense Force was inactivated on 1 July 1960, with its assigned units reassigned either to 29th, 30th or 33rd Air Divisions, or to the new Air Defense Sectors created with the advent of the [[Semi Automatic Ground Environment]] (SAGE) system.
+==Lineage==
+* Constituted as '''Central Air Defense Force''' (CADF) on 5 February 1951
+: Activated on 1 March 1951
+: Inactivated on 1 July 1960
 ===Assignments===
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 * [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]], Missouri, 5 February 1951
 * Grandview AFB, Missouri, 24 February 1954
-: Site re-designated: [[Richards-Gebaur AFB]], Missouri, 27 April 1957-July 1, 1960
+: Site re-designated: [[Richards-Gebaur AFB]], Missouri, 27 April 1957 – 1 July 1960
 ===Components===
 ====Air Divisions====
 {{Col-begin}}
 {{Col-break|width=50%}}
 * [[20th Air Division]]
-: Activated by ADC on 8 October 1955 at Grandview AFB, Missouri
+: Activated at: Grandview AFB, Missouri on 8 October 1955
 : Assigned to Central Air Defense Force
 : Site re-designated: [[Richards-Gebaur AFB]], Missouri, 27 April 1957
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 * [[29th Air Division]]
-: Assigned to Great Falls AFB, Montana
+: Stationed at: Great Falls AFB, Montana
 : Re-assigned to Central Air Defense Force 16 February 1953 from [[Western Air Defense Force]] (WADF)
 : Site re-designated: [[Malmstrom AFB]], 15 June 1956
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 * [[31st Air Division]]
-: Assigned to [[Fort Snelling]], Minnesota on 20 May 1951
+: Stationed at: [[Fort Snelling]], Minnesota on 20 May 1951
 : Re-assigned to Central Air Defense Force 16 February 1953 from [[Eastern Air Defense Force]] (EADF)
 : Inactivated 1 January 1960
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 {{Col-break|width=50%}}
 * [[33d Air Division]]
-: Assigned to [[Tinker AFB]], Oklahoma, 20 May 1951
+: Stationed at: [[Tinker AFB]], Oklahoma, 20 May 1951
 : Re-assigned to Central Air Defense Force 16 February 1953 from [[Eastern Air Defense Force]] (EADF)
 : Moved to [[Oklahoma City AFS]], 1 July 1956
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 * [[34th Air Division]] (Defense)
-: Assigned to [[Kirtland AFB]], New Mexico, 16 February 1953
+: Stationed at: [[Kirtland AFB]], New Mexico, 16 February 1953
 : Re-assigned to Central Air Defense Force 16 February 1953 from [[Western Air Defense Force]] (WADF)
 : Inactivated 1 January 1960
 * [[35th Air Division]]
-: Activated at [[Kansas City, Missouri]] on 1 July 1951
+: Activated at: [[Kansas City, Missouri]] on 1 July 1951
 : Assigned to Central Air Defense Force
 : Moved to [[Dobbins AFB]], Georgia on 1 September 1951
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 : Federalized [[Indiana Air National Guard]], 10 February 1951
 : Stationed at  [[Baer Field]], Indiana
 : Re-assigned to Central Air Defense Force 1 December 1951 from [[Eastern Air Defense Force]] (EADF)
 : Inactivated and returned to state control, 7 February 1952
 * [[128th Fighter-Interceptor Wing]]
 : Federalized [[Wisconsin Air National Guard]], 10 February 1951
 : Stationed at [[Truax Field Air National Guard Base|Truax Field]], Wisconsin
 : Re-assigned to Central Air Defense Force 20 May 1951 from [[Eastern Air Defense Force]] (EADF)
 : Inactivated and returned to state control, 6 February 1952
 * [[133d Fighter-Interceptor Wing]]
 : Federalized [[Minnesota Air National Guard]], 10 February 1951
-: Stationed at  [[Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport|Minneapolis-Saint Paul Airport]], Minnesota
+: Stationed at [[Holman Field]], Minnesota
 : Re-assigned to Central Air Defense Force 20 May 1951 from [[Eastern Air Defense Force]] (EADF)
+: Moved to [[Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport]], 28 June 1951
 : Inactivated and returned to state control, 6 February 1952
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 * 161st Aircraft Control and Warning Group
 : Federalized [[California Air National Guard]], 28 January 1952
-: Stationed at [[Berkley, California]], assigned to Central Air Defense Force
+: Stationed at [[Berkeley, California]], assigned to Central Air Defense Force
 : Personnel used to fill vacancies in numerous CADF units; inactivated 6 February 1952
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 ==See also==
-{{Portal box|Military of the United States|United States Air Force}}
 * [[Eastern Air Defense Force]]
 * [[Western Air Defense Force]]
 ==References==
+{{Air Force Historical Research Agency}}
-{{AFHRA}}
 {{Reflist}}
 * USAF Aerospace Defense Command publication, The Interceptor, January 1979 (Volume 21, Number 1)
-* Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4
+* Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. {{ISBN|0-89201-092-4}}
-* Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9
+* Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. {{ISBN|0-912799-12-9}}
+*  A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980,  by Lloyd H. Cornett and Mildred W. Johnson, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
+* Winkler, David F. (1997), Searching the skies: the legacy of the United States Cold War defense radar program. Prepared for United States Air Force Headquarters Air Combat Command.
 ==External links==
 {{Aerospace Defense Command|state=collapsed}}
+[[Category:Aerospace Defense Command units]]
+[[Category:1951 establishments in Missouri]]
+[[Category:1960 disestablishments in Missouri]]