| Show Hill Notes A bouquet of to be presented to Hill on 7 by a delegation from the Ogden Chamber of will observe the birthday of the Utah air Edmund A. commander of the Ogden Air Logistics said that the huge air base will be too busy carrying out Its important defense assignments to hold a formal celebration on that In December the U.S. War Department designated a desolate strip of land in northern Utah as the site of a defense GROUNDBREAKING ceremonies in the snow a month later on attended by local marked the beginning of an exciting history for the That same on Morris Berman became the first The base lists that date as its AS LATE as the base had only one civilian employee on the Two months later the first vehicles were purchased-a 1940 sedan for the commanding officer's business and a 1934 one-ton truck for shipping When Pearl Harbor triggered world war II In the military and civilian personnel were ready to start hustling supplies and repairing aircraft to help bring FAMOUS aircraft of world war such as and were kept in combat-ready condition by the trained workforce at Hill The base was alive with activity-runways buzzing with nighttime as well as daytime takeoffs and shops filled with round-the-clock shifts keeping the planes flying and supplies ACTIVITY at Hill peaked in 1943 when the base had military and civilian personnel on its The low ebb was reached in 1946 with civilian workers and military The Korean War returned the base to a dynamo of activity which has continued to this the base employs civilians and military making it Utah's largest DURING fiscal year Hill spent over million in including a million combined military-civilian the largest in the The base is currently worth which includes real equipment and Operations at Hill support more than 50 Air Force activities in a four-million square mile MISSIONS assigned at Hill include the jet Minuteman Titan II Bomarc and Maverick training aircraft landing photographic equipment and New construction is to be seen everywhere at the Utah air A million was dedicated recently which replaced a conglomerate of wooden structures dating back to world war IT A total of new military housing units are underway as part of a million |
