It's very close to the Bonneville Salt Flats, now in the news because they can't hold their races there for the second year in a row, possibly because salt mining is depleting the resource and making the flats too slushy). It truly is far from anything, with horizon for miles, and much of it the Great Salt Desert (more on that in another post. You can almost hear the buzz and machinery of the past, whereas I literally didn't see another person there other than my own family.Īpparently Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, was given three bases to choose from, and he selected Wendover because of its remote location. The museum is well worth visiting, and the spirit of the place is hard to describe. Wendover airfield, a major WWII base in Utah, is now a historic site. ![]() ![]() They had a great display of pin-up plane art
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