The smallest item at the Historic Wendover Airfield just might have the biggest meaning.
“We can’t forget the past,” said Petersen.Īt the Historic Wendover Airfield Museum, it’s the smallest thing that gives humanity hope. Walk into any museum and you’ll find all sorts of big things and big moments, marking human history. “We’ve had lots of visitors from all over the world,” said James Petersen, president of the Historic Wendover Airfield Museum. Today, Japan and the United States are close friends, and inside a Wendover museum, there’s an example of how things can change over time.
That moment, and another bomb later in Nagasaki, essentially ended W orld War II. WENDOVER, Utah - An airplane based in Wendover, Utah carried and dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
