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Launch Complex 44

Launch Complex 44 Systems
  • Dragon

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Launch Complex Highlights

  • The launch complex was just west of the Trident Turn Basin and was used for only a short period of time for the Dragon missile
  • 16 June 1967 - First Dragon anti-tank missile launch
  • 29 August 1968 - Site of B-52 crash following in-flight emergency
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B-52 Crash Report
Evening Tribune extract, 30 October 1968

Extract from the Evening Tribune, 30 August 1968, reporting the B-52 crash on the Cape