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On 1 April 1948, the Eielson Air Force Base Wing (Base Complement) was formed. The host-unit subsequently would be dubbed the Eielson Air force Base Bomb Wing, and finally, in January 1949, the 5010th Wing. Colonel John L. Nedwed, the third commander of the base since it fell under Alaskan Air Command fifteen months before, became the first to ...
Construction boomed at Eielson AFB during the wing's tenure in the 1950s. Many of the facilities still in use today were built at that time – Amber Hall, the Thunderdome, Base Exchange, Commissary, Gymnasium, Theater, Base Chapel, some of the schools and many of the dormitories, just to name a few.
A USAF B-36 bomber was flying a simulated combat mission from Eielson Air Force Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska, to Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas, carrying a Mark 4 nuclear bomb (minus a fissile core). After six hours of flight, the bomber experienced mechanical problems and was forced to shut down three of its six engines at an ...
The flight did contain a "dummy capsule," a simulated container for a nuclear core (filled with lead), which was much later recovered. [2] Cold weather (−40 °F/−40 °C on the ground at Eielson AFB) adversely affected the aircraft involved in this exercise, and some minor difficulties with 44-92075 were noted before takeoff. Seven hours ...
Dec. 12—Four additional KC-135 Stratotankers, the lynchpins of the U.S. military's aerial refueling operations, have been assigned to Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, and with them around ...
Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, 1 Feb 1964-1 Jul 1974 Detachment: RAAF Base East Sale, Victoria, Australia (R/WB-57F) Detachment: El Plumerillo International Airport, Argentina (R/WB-57F) 58th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Detachment 1, Eielson AFB, Alaska (R/WB-57F)
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Project Pele is a project of the US Department of Defense to build a deployable nuclear power reactor [1] for use in United States Armed Forces remote operating bases. In 2020 the project was listed as relevant to lunar and Mars missions. [2]: 15 presumably for surface operations rather than rocket propulsion.