4750th Air Defense Wing
The 4750th Air Defense Wing is a discontinued United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 73d Air Division, Air Defense Command, (ADC) at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, where it was inactivated in 1960.
| 4750th Air Defense Wing | |
|---|---|
A B-26 Invader of the 4750th with a Ryan Firebee drone under its wing | |
| Active | 1953-1959 |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | United States Air Force |
| Type | Interceptor Weapons Training |
| Role | Air Defense |
| Decorations | Air Force Outstanding Unit Award |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commander | Colonel Robert P. Baldwin |
| Insignia | |
| 4750th Air Defense Wing emblem | |
The wing was first organized as the 4750th Training Wing at Yuma County Airport in 1953, when ADC's gunnery training program expanded from a squadron sized unit to a wing. The wing conducted interceptor aircraft training for ADC at Yuma (later Vincent Air Force Base) until moving to MacDill in 1959. Shortly afterward, the wing was discontinued and the ADC training program transferred to another wing.
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