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7406th Support Squadron ( USAF ACC)

 
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7406 SS ( USAF ACC)
Status:
Disbanded
Version: Airborne Reconnaissance
Role: C-130B-II
Tailband: N/A
Motto: Semper Vigallus
Badge: N/A
Converted from the RB-50E to the C-130A-II in 1958 at Rhein-Main AB, Germany. First two aircraft to arrive were #56-0525 and #56-0528 in July 1958.. Notably was the loss of C-130A-II #56-0528 when it was shot down by four Soviet MiG-17s with the loss of a crew of seventeen over Yerevan, USSR on September 2, 1958. It was the first Hercules lost to hostile fire. Another noteworthy event was the squadrons monitoring of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War in which the C-130s flew the perilously exposed to collect intelligence. In early 1972 the squadron converted to the C-130B-II with the first arriving ahead of this with #59-1537 during November of 1971. Scheduled to disband, the last four aircraft departed June 26, 1975 back to CONUS for conversion back to standard C-130Bs. A deactivation ceremony was held June 28, 1974 and disbanded on June 30, 1974.

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