# 1960-07-21 First Polaris Firing By Submerged U-Boat

Missile Milestone - First Polaris Firing By Submerged U-Boat, Universal International Newsreel, 21 July 1960. Polaris missile loaded from truck to sub at Cape Canaveral, missile hatches opened on USS George Washington, missile fired on 20 July 1960, 1100 miles to its target, then 2nd missile fired.

- Kind: Newsreel
- Year: 1960
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Universal International Newsreel
- Genres: News
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1960-07-21_First_Polaris_Firing_By_Submerged_U-Boat.ogv)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Universal International Newsreel
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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