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The 44th Missile Wing (44 MW) is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Twentieth Air Force, being assigned to Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota. It was inactivated on 4 July 1994. For over 40 years the 44th was a front-line Strategic Air Command wing, initially as a B-47 Stratojet medium bomber
The 44th SMW executed the unique 'Long Life' test of a Minuteman ICBM. The 68th Strategic Missile Squadron performed the only launch of a United States ICBM from an operational inland US missile site from LF November-02 (N-02) on 1 March 1965. The first stage was loaded with only enough propellant for seven seconds of burn time and the upper ...
Redesignated as the 44th Operations Group (44 OG) within the Strategic Air Command and activated on 1 September 1991 under the "Objective Wing" concept adopted by the Air Force. The ICBM squadrons of the renamed 44th Missile Wing were reassigned to the group.
Pages in category "Installations of Strategic Air Command" ... 44th Missile Wing LGM-30 Minuteman Missile Launch Sites; ... Greensboro-High Point Army Airfield;
44th Bombardment Group, 1 July 1947 – 6 September 1948; 44th Bombardment Group, 2 January 1951 (attached to 44th Bombardment Wing after 10 February 1951) 44th Bombardment Wing, 16 June 1952; Department of the Air Force, 15 June 1960 (not organized) Strategic Air Command, 19 March 1962 (not organized) 44th Strategic Missile Wing, 1 August 1962 [6]
This is a list of missile wings activated by the United States Air Force during and after the Cold War.Although most of these wings included the word "missile" in their designations, the majority of units operating Convair SM-65 Atlas and Martin SM-68A Titan I intercontinental ballistic missiles were strategic wings or strategic aerospace wings, which combined missile, bomber and air refueling ...
In 1965, the 850th Strategic Missile Squadron was inactivated as the Titan I was withdrawn from service and its parent, the 44th Strategic Missile Wing, became an entirely Minuteman equipped unit. [11] Offsetting the loss of a single missile squadron, the division gained the 90th Strategic Missile Wing at Glasgow Air Force Base. [18]
Johnson donating his uniform to Col. Robert Ceruti, commander of the 44th Strategic Missile Wing, at a ceremony held at Ellsworth Air Force Base (1983) Johnson settled in McLean, Virginia and worked as a consultant. His hobbies included growing flowers, [2] and he was president of the National Capitol Dahlia Society. [12]