Wendover Army Airfield was where the crew of the Enola Gay trained in their B-29 to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.Ī nice museum with plenty of photos and memorabilia is located in the restored John T.
#WENDOVER ENOLA GAY HANGER ARCHIVE#
Land Arts of the American West listserv archive (19).INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSTRUCTED ENVIRONMENT (1).International Association for Environmental Philosophy (1).Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse (1).
#WENDOVER ENOLA GAY HANGER WINDOWS#
The money will be used to re-roof the metal hangar portion of the building, re-roof the north and south operations offices and shops, and provide siding and windows for the building.
The Historic Wendover Airfield recently received $450,000 in public funds from the Federal Government's "Save America’s Treasures" program. In its current state of near collapse, it is a signal of the continuing-maybe even deepening-complexities of the realities that surround atomic weapons in general and America's role in being the first and only country to unleash them in particular.īut it now seems that the hangar will be transformed from infrastructural relic to memorial infrastructure. Today, the Enola Gay hangar exists as a piece of obsolete, decaying infrastructure. If we frame infrastructure through the lens of land use interpretation, we can decipher "lessons" in public responsibility that are implied by infrastructure priorities, design and development. A close look at what gets built in the name of infrastucture can suggest the meanings and functions of systems intended to create and support communities. Infrastructure-such as the Enola Gay hangar, the Wendover Airbase, the museum being developed on the base-can be read to reveal social dynamics and values.
In military parlance, the term refers to the buildings and permanent installations necessary for the support, redeployment, and operation of military forces.Īs part of our current research trip, we're exploring how "land use interpretation" might offer new ways to understand infrastructure as a “social covenant” (William Morrish). The basic physical and organisational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function.
The unit is adjacent to one of the most historically significant pieces of infrastructure at the airfield, the Enola Gay Hangar, a massive building that housed the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. We found it next to CLUI's Wendover residence support unit.