Editing Eglin Air Force Base (section)

===Postwar===
[[File:Northrop F-89C.jpg|thumb|A [[F-89 Scorpion|Northrop F-89C]] landing at Eglin Air Force Base in the 1950s|alt=|left]]

After the war, Eglin became a pioneer in developing the techniques for missile launching and handling; and the development of drone or pilotless aircraft beginning with the [[Republic-Ford JB-2|Republic-Ford JB-2 Loon]], an American copy of the [[V-1 (flying bomb)|V-1]]. The [[1st Experimental Guided Missiles Group]] was activated at Eglin Field, Florida, on 6 February 1946, operating out of Auxiliary Field 3. By March 1950, the 550th Guided Missiles Wing, comprising the 1st and 2nd Guided Missile Squadrons, had replaced the 1st Experimental Guided Missiles Group. The 2nd Guided Missile Squadron, SSM, had 62 pilots manning 14 [[B-17]]s, three [[B-29]]s, and four [[F-80 Shooting Star]]s, yellow-tailed drone aircraft used in the role of testing guided missiles.

In December 1955, the Air Munitions Development Laboratory was reassigned from the Wright Air Development Center at [[Wright-Patterson AFB]], Ohio, to the Air Force Armament Center at Eglin by Headquarters Air Research and Development Command. The responsibility for development of guns, bombs, rockets, fuses, guided missile warheads and other related equipment in the armament field was transferred from the Dayton, Ohio facility at this time. Work on nuclear weapons was not included in this mission.<ref>Special, "From Dayton, Ohio – Munitions Lab Is Transferred to Eglin AFAC", ''Playground News'', Fort Walton Beach, Florida, 15 December 1955, Vol. 9, No. 97, p. 1.</ref>