File:Dugway Proving Ground, German-Japanese Village, German Village, South of Stark Road, in WWII Incendiary Test Area, Dugway, Tooele County, UT HAER UTAH,23-DUG,2A- (sheet 1 of 3).tif

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HAER UTAH,23-DUG,2A- (sheet 1 of 3) - Dugway Proving Ground, German-Japanese Village, German Village, South of Stark Road, in WWII Incendiary Test Area, Dugway, Tooele County, UT
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HAER UTAH,23-DUG,2A- (sheet 1 of 3) - Dugway Proving Ground, German-Japanese Village, German Village, South of Stark Road, in WWII Incendiary Test Area, Dugway, Tooele County, UT
Depicted place Utah; Tooele County; Dugway
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER UTAH,23-DUG,2A- (sheet 1 of 3)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The Dugway German Village was the primary American site for testing incendiary bombs prior to large-scale attacks near the end of World War II against civilian targets such as Dresden, Germany. The extant structure paralleled that of an adjacent, but no longer extant, Japanese Village, used to test incendiaries for the Pacific theater. The buildings in the German Village were constructed of materials and designs that replicated contemporary residential buildings in German urban industrial districts. In order to build a facility that was an authentic reproduction, studies were conducted to determine which materials and furnishings available in the U.S. would closely match those in use in Germany. A group of German-American architects affiliated with the "Gropius group at Harvard," including prominent Jewish architects Eric Mendelsohn and Konrad Wachsmann, were employed to design the facility. Both men had been associated with the prominent architectural group, der Berliner Zehner-Ring [the Berlin Circle of 10, or the Ring] while living in Europe. The Ring included among its members Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. The AN-M50 model of incendiary bomb, extensively tested at the German Village, accounted for more than 97 percent (by number) of the incendiary bombs dropped on Germany by American forces.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N677
  • Survey number: HAER UT-92-A
  • Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ut0568.sheet.00001a
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Object location40° 08′ 19.57″ N, 113° 00′ 22.32″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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