00425667
5-3825-2
UNCLASSIFIED
2437939
10-01-1962
2437969
10-31-1962
DIVISION/0006/AIR
HISTORY
K-DIV-6-HI
11135
P0388
1495
1557
37
2448472
08-03-1991
6 AIR DIVISION (6 AD) SUBORDINATE UNITS MAINTAINED MAXIMUM GROUND ALERT POSTURE INVOLVING BOTH TANKER AND BOMBER AIRCRAFT DURING CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS OF LATTER PART OF OCT 62 WHEN EVIDENCE WAS DISCLOSED THAT SOVIET UNION HAD DEPLOYED OFFENSIVE MISSILES ON LAUNCH SITES IN CUBA. (6 AD UNITS COMMENCED CHROME DOME AIRBORNE ALERT OPERATIONS DURING CUBAN CRISIS, BUT ALL INSPECTIONS BY 6 AD WERE CANCELLED DURING CRISIS, AS WERE ALL AIR TRAINING ACTIVITIES OF 6 AD ASSIGNED OPERATIONAL UNITS.) 6 AD UNITS ALSO PARTICIPATED IN OTHER OPERATIONS (SUCH AS: TEXAS STAR AND BIG BLAST) DURING EARLY PART OF OCT 62. REPORT WAS RECEIVED (ON 12 OCT 62) OF SEP 62 EVALUATION BY 1 COMBAT EVALUATION GROUP OF 41 AIR REFUELING SQUADRON (ASSIGNED TO 4039 STRATEGIC WING OF 6 AD). STAFF MEMBERS OF 6 AD CONDUCTED FOLLOW/UP INSPECTION (IN NOV 62) TO JUL 62 OPERATIONAL READINESS INSPECTION TEST (ORIT) AND GENERAL INSPECTION OF 4038 STRATEGIC WING. (FOLLOW/UP INSPECTION HAD BEEN ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED TO BEGIN ON 22 OCT 62, BUT WAS NOT MADE UNTIL 1 TO 15 NOV 62 DUE TO CUBAN CRISIS.)
NONE
6 AIR DIVISION, FOLLOW/UP INSPECTION OF 4038 STRATEGIC WING AT DOW AIR FORCE BASE ME, 19 NOV 62
INCLUDES SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS, SUCH AS: MESSAGES AND CORRESPONDENCE. TITLE MODIFIED. ALSO INCLUDES REVIEW OF SUBORDINATE UNIT ACTIVITIES, AS WELL AS MATERIAL COVERING JUL, SEP, AND NOV 62.