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The Frigate Bird test of a fully-armed Polaris missile took place in the east-central Pacific on 6 May 1962. The launching ship, USS Ethan Allen, was stationed 1,300 miles southeast of the Hawaiian islands and established an aim point some 1,100 miles away - 525 miles east-northeast of Christmas Island, from which most of the support efforts were staged.
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