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Item
Title
A7895-1
Date(s)
- 1939-02 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
McChord Field under construction in February of 1939. The metal framework of a curved barrel vault roofed building is highlighted against the sky. On completion, this structure will be a hangar housing warplanes. The War Department was constructing a modern airbase on acreage that formerly held Tacoma Field, the city's municipal airport. The land was deeded to the War Department in March of 1938. Construction contracts totalled $2,649, 455.00 and employed 2100 men. Ordered for Corky Maybin, T. Times. (T. Times 2/8/1939, pg. 3) (filed with Argentum)
Building construction--McChord Field; McChord Field (Tacoma);