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Composite Squadron
Today in Air Force History 2/6/2012
1948 - The Army successfully used electronic guidance on a V-2 rocket for the first time in a 70-mile ascent at White Sands Proving Ground, N.M.
1959 - The U.S. Air Force successfully launches the first Titan I ICBM. With a range of 5,500 nautical miles, the two-stage liquid-fueled missile will be deployed in underground silos but has to be raised to the surface before launch.
1963 - The first all-U.S. Air Force crew from the 655th Aerospace Test Wing launched a Titan II missile from Cape Canaveral. The missile flew 5,871 miles down the Atlantic Missile Range.
1965 - Lt. Col. Ralph I. Leslie and his aircrew from the Air Force Flight Test Center's C-141 Joint Test Force returned to Edwards AFB, Calif., after a 5,200-mile, nonstop roundtrip flight to Honolulu.
1967 - Airman 2nd Class Duane Hackney, the most decorated Airman in Vietnam, received an Air Force Cross for rescuing a downed pilot near Mu Gia pass, North Vietnam.
1979 - Strategic Air Command accepted the Minuteman sites at Malmstrom AFB, Mont., following an integrated improvement program for the ground systems.
1991 - Reserve Capt. Robert R. Swain of the 706th Tactical Fighter Squadron scores the first-ever A-10 Warthog air-to-air kill by shooting down an Iraqi helicopter.
1992 - Four C-130 Hercules from the 435th Tactical Airlift Wing moved food and supplies from U.S. bases in Germany to Lithuania after its centralized economy collapsed in 1991.
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