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1964 · réf. 88340 — Beale Air Force Base CA: United States Air Force 456th Strategic Aerospace Wing SAC Headquarters c1964. Presumed to be one of only a few multiple copies produced for distribution. Three sheets with printing on one side only. Good. Format is approximately 8 inches by 10.5 inches with twelve holes punched in the left side. This document contains 3 sheets/six pages with text printed on the one side only. This typed/mimeographed document shows some wear and soiling. Following two pages of instructions the third page is a filled out "sample' form DD 365F Training Mission w/Expendables retained with the name Kaylor in ink at the top left corner. Reference is made to the B-47 aircraft. This was included in a group of materials associated with the 456th Strategic Aerospace Wing SAC This type of operational communication within the SAC organization rarely survives. NAV/RN is written at the top of the front side. The 456th Bombardment Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 14th Air Division of Strategic Air Command at Beale Air Force Base California where it was inactivated on 30 September 1975. The wing was redesignated the 456th Strategic Aerospace Wing and was activated at Beale Air Force Base California in February 1963. It flew Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers and Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker air refueling aircraft and also commanded a HGM-25A Titan I squadron until 1965. Although it operated no intercontinental ballistic missiles after then it was not until July 1972 that the wing was redesignated the 456th Bombardment Wing. The wing was inactivated in September 1975 and its personnel equipment and mission transferred to the 17th Bombardment Wing and moved to Beale on paper from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Ohio. This Form F is the summary of the actual disposition of the load in the aircraft for any particular flight. It serves as a work sheet on which to record the calculations and any corrections that must be made to insure that the aircraft will be within weight and c.g. limitations during ground operations at unstick and at landing. It is necessary to accomplish a FORM F prior to flight whenever an aircraft is loaded in a manner for which no previous Form F. is available. It is note that at REF. 6. Bombs Rockets Etc. that "Special Weapons will be loaded with the Special Internal Stores Scale of the Load Adjuster. Their weights will be furnished by local Special Weapons Officers." The North American Aviation AGM-28 Hound Dog was a supersonic turbojet-propelled nuclear armed air-launched cruise missile developed in 1959 for the United States Air Force. It was primarily designed to be capable of attacking Soviet ground-based air defense sites prior to a potential air attack by B-52 Stratofortress long range bombers during the Cold War. The Hound Dog was first given the designation B-77 then redesignated GAM-77 and finally AGM-28. The Hound Dog continued to be deployed for a total of 15 years until its replacement by newer missiles including the AGM-69 SRAM and then the AGM-86 ALCM. United States Air Force, 456th Strategic Aerospace Wing (SAC), Headquarters unknown