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Due to the continuance of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, GFAFB was originally an Air Defense Command (ADC) fighter-interceptor air base. The site was chosen in 1954 and the land was paid for by the citizens of Grand Forks, the site was located 15 miles (24 km) west of the city.
The 321st Strategic Missile Wing was the sixth, and last United States Air Force LGM-30 Minuteman ICBM wing. In 1962, the Air Force announced that the Grand Forks AFB would be first to deploy the new LGM-30F Minuteman II missile (The previous deployments were all Minuteman I).
4133rd Strategic Wing Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota; B-52H, 1962–1963 30th Bombardment Squadron Inactivated on 1 February 1963, assets to 46th BS/319th BW. 4134th Strategic Wing Mather AFB, California; B-52F, 1958–1963 72nd Bombardment Squadron Inactivated on 1 September 1963, assets to 441st BS/320th BW. 4135th Strategic Wing Eglin AFB ...
The lockdown has been lifted at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota after a report of a gunshot on Wednesday afternoon sent people indoors. The base said in an earlier post that security at ...
It is stationed at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota. The wing is the host unit at Grand Forks. The wing operates the E-11A Battlefield Airborne Communications Node and the E/RQ-4B Global Hawk remotely piloted aircraft, delivering surveillance and reconnaissance to combatant commands. The wing comprises two groups and nine squadrons ...
HAER No. ND-12-D, "Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Vehicle Storage Building", 3 photos, 3 data pages, 2 photo caption pages; Historic American Engineering Record documentation filed under Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, ND:
The two facilities are the last of the 321st Missile Wing, a cluster of intercontinental ballistic missile launch sites that were spread over a 6,500-square-mile (17,000 km 2) area around the Grand Forks Air Force Base. These facilities played a major part in how the United States responded to the training and testing of responding to a nuclear ...
The 448th Missile Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 321st Missile Group at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota.The 448th was equipped with the LGM-30 Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile, with a mission of nuclear deterrence.