File:OVERALL NORTH END OF BASE, LOOKING NORTH. - Wendover Air Force Base, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT HABS UTAH,23-WEN,2-2.tif

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OVERALL NORTH END OF BASE, LOOKING NORTH. - Wendover Air Force Base, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
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OVERALL NORTH END OF BASE, LOOKING NORTH. - Wendover Air Force Base, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Description
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
Depicted place Utah; Tooele County; Wendover
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS UTAH,23-WEN,2-2
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  • Significance: The history of Wendover Airport spans a period of 50 years, and has gained historical recognition due to the critical role it played during World War II. During World War II events at Wendover proved to be invaluable in the outcome of the war effort. The construction of the airbase in and of itself is an example of the tremendous Army mobilization effort during World War II. Beyond that, Wendover was the training ground for many Army Air Corps soldiers, including those who participated in the planning, assembly, and delivery of the atomic bomb. The Airport is also the site of missiles testing which took place under the Air Material Command postwar weapons development program in the late 1940's and 1950's. The Airport was used by Stragetic Air Command training crews in the late 1940's.

Wendover was one of the few military installations in the country placed on the National Register of Historic Places prior to being more than fifty years old... Wendover is significant for several reasons. First, at one time it was the largest (in terms of land area) military reserve in the world. It is an example of the tremendous building program associated with the World War II mobilization. Wendover also served as the training facility for thousands of soldiers in World War II. It served as the training base of the unit responsible for the atomic bombing of Japan. The Enola Gay B-29 Aircraft which carried the bomb dropped over Hiroshima was housed in a hangar at Wendover. The atomic bombs which were dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were reportedly assembled at Wendover...

  • Survey number: HABS UT-125
  • Building/structure dates: 1941- 1943 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 75001827.
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