page_title: 578th Strategic Missile Squadron
section_title: Aircraft and missiles
hierarchical_section_title: 578th Strategic Missile Squadron / Lineage / Aircraft and missiles
caption_attribution_description: English: 578th Strategic Missile Squadron - SM-65F Atlas Missile
context_page_description: The 578th Strategic Missile Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 96th Strategic Aerospace Wing, stationed at Dyess AFB, Texas
  On 1 July 1961, the 578th Strategic Missile Squadron went on alert as a Strategic Air Command Intercontinental ballistic missile squadron, being equipped with the SM-65F Atlas, with a mission of nuclear deterrence.
  The squadron was inactivated as part of the phaseout of the Atlas ICBM on 25 March 1965.
context_section_description: B-24 Liberator, 1943–1945
  A-26 Invader, 1947–1949
  SM-65F Atlas Missile, 1961–1965
  Operated twelve missile sites of one missile at each site (12 total):
  578–1 1.5 mi SE of Lake Fort Phantom Hill, TX   32°36′09″N 099°38′59″W
  578–2 1.5 mi S of Albany, TX   32°42′23″N 099°17′51″W
  578–3 2.5 mi SE of Clyde, TX   32°22′54″N 099°27′37″W
  578–4 9.6 mi SSW of Clyde, TX   32°16′25″N 099°32′28″W
  578–5 1.5 mi SE of Lake Coleman, TX   32°09′42″N 099°33′10″W
  578–6 2.7 mi E of Lawn, TX   32°08′25″N 099°42′12″W
  578–7 3.4 mi NE of Bradshaw, TX   32°07′51″N 099°51′18″W
  578–8 4.9 mi ENE of Winters, TX   31°58′24″N 099°52′48″W
  578–9 11.9 mi NW of Bradshaw, TX   32°12′37″N 100°03′03″W
  578–10 13.1 mi S of Trent, TX   32°18′05″N 100°09′11″W
  578–11 3.2 mi SSW of Anson, TX   32°42′40″N 099°54′34″W
  578–12 1.4 mi WNW of Corinth, TX   32°51′37″N 099°53′29″W
caption: SM-65F Atlas Missile Sites
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