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USS GEORGE WASHINGTON
The world's first Polaris-firing Fleet Ballistic Missile,
submarine, the USS George Washington, cruises
at sea after leaving her builder's dock at General
Dynamics Corporation's Electric Boat Division in
Groton,
Conn. Armed with 16 thermo-nuclear
Polaris missiles capable of wreaking more destruc-
tion than all the bombs dropped in World War
II, the 380-foot, 5,900-ton ship went on her first
Polaris patrol in November, 1960. Expected to
remain on station for months at a time,
Washington carries two alternating crews of 10
officers and 90 men each.
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Photo Courtesy of General Dynamics Corp.
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