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This heritage pamphlet from Malmstrom AFB traces the history of the 341st Missile Wing. The unit began as a B-25 bomb group in the China-Burma-India Theater in 1942, then flew B-47s at Abilene AFB before being activated at Malmstrom in July 1961. The pamphlet covers the Minuteman I, II and III deployments, the Cuban Missile Crisis alert, arms-reduction work under START, trophies, wing commanders and a missile field chronology. It also has museum display notes on missiles and the UH-1 helicopter.
341st Missile Wing History 341st Strategic Missile Wing, the first of six Minuteman wings. Malmstrom's first flight of 10 missiles went on operational alert on Oct. 22, 1962. Later models would be based at Malmstrom and five other bases in western states including South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming and Missouri. These states had thousands of square miles of open space surrounding the bases, making them ideal for Minuteman operations. The missile on display came to the museum in 1971. Later Minuteman models included Minuteman IB (LGM-30B), II (LGM-30F) and III (LGM-30G). Over the years, the Minuteman series received various upgrades with improved motors, guidance, re-entry vehicles, and warheads. Minuteman III, also on display in this gallery, is still in service and is projected to be a main nuclear deterrent well into the 21st century. TECHNICAL NOTES: Height: 53.8 ft. Weight: 65,000 lbs. Range: Designed for 5,000+ miles Speed: 15,000 mph Propulsion: Stage 1--Thiokol, 210,000 lbs. thrust; Stage 2--Aerojet, 60,000 lbs. thrust; Stage 3-- Hercules, 35,000 lbs. thrust Guidance: All inertial, Autonetics Division of Rockwell Warhead: Nuclear, re-entry vehicle by Avco
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