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Wendover Air Force Base, Building 104, Wendover Air Force Base, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Summary
Significance: The machine shop derives its historical significance from association with Wendover Air Force Base, Established in 1940, the base served as an ideal training ground for heavy bombing and gunnery practices until its abandonment in 1963. Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr., pilot of the B-29 "Enola Gay" which dropped the Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his 509th Command Group trained at the base.
Survey number: HABS UT-105
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Date
1933 - 1940
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
Wendover, 40.73715, -114.03751
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
