Wendover in Tooele County, Utah — The American Mountains (Southwest)

Atomic Mission Hangar 1831

Photographed by Dawn Bowen, June 17, 2007

1. Atomic Mission Hangar 1831 Marker

Inscription. This hangar is the only steel vaulted-roof hangar at the base. Built specifically to house the new B-29 aircraft, it is 200 feet by 228 feet. With offices in the side wooden ‘lean–to’ buildings, there are 53,400 square feet total in the hangar. The small rectangular door above the sliding hangar doors opened up to accommodate the height of the B-29’s vertical tail.

Often referred to as the “Enola Gay” hangar, the 393rd Bombardment Squadron of the 509th Composite Group utilized this hangar for their operations and maintenance.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Air & Space • War, World II.

Location. 40° 43.741′ N, 114° 1.777′ W. Marker is in Wendover, Utah, in Tooele County. It can be reached from Historic Wendover Airfield. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Wendover UT 84083, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Utah’s Wasatch Front,

in the West Desert,

and in Greater Salt Lake.

It is also in the American Mountain West

and in Colorado Plateau.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Rocky Mountains,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain

and also Mexico’s Alta California.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Airmen’s Dining Hall and Barracks (approx. 0.2 miles away); Base Chapel (approx. 0.2 miles away); Operations Building (approx. 0.4 miles away); South Base Area (approx. 0.4 miles away); Control Tower (approx. 0.4 miles away); Bomb Squadron Hangar

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(approx. 0.4 miles away); First Transcontinental Telephone Line (approx. 0.9 miles away in Nevada); 509th Composite Group – First Atomic Bombardment (approx. 1½ miles away in Nevada). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Wendover.

Also see . . . Wendover Air Field. (Submitted on June 26, 2007, by Dawn Bowen of Fredericksburg, Virginia.)

Loading a "Fat Man" onto a B-20 from Wendover Loading Pit image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Dawn Bowen, June 17, 2007

2. Loading a "Fat Man" onto a B-20 from Wendover Loading Pit

Atomic Mission Hangar image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Dawn Bowen, June 17, 2007

3. Atomic Mission Hangar

Marker in front of hangar image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Dawn Bowen, June 17, 2007

4. Marker in front of hangar

Credits. This page was last revised on June 20, 2023. It was originally submitted on June 26, 2007, by Dawn Bowen of Fredericksburg, Virginia. This page has been viewed 2,123 times since then and 15 times this year. Last updated on June 19, 2023, by Carl Gordon Moore Jr. of North East, Maryland. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on June 26, 2007, by Dawn Bowen of Fredericksburg, Virginia. • J. Makali Bruton was the editor who published this page.