Now, though, the hangar is being restored.
For nearly 60 years, the hangar was neglected - walls rusted, holes formed in the room, and windows were broken. 'Some of the visitors who come here know what went on here,' Petersen said, 'but a lot of the visitors who come out to Wendover to gamble don't really know what's here.' The crews that trained for that mission were based in Wendover. The Enola Gay is the airplane that dropped the atomic bomb on Japan during World War II, essentially winning the war for America. Petersen isn't just talking about any hangar.
'You can kind of feel the veterans that are still in there.' 'You absolutely can,' said Jim Petersen, Wendover's airport director. But it's when things are quiet that you really can get a sense of what's going on. WENDOVER - It's been busy inside a particular hangar at the Wendover airport lately. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.
