“This entire base has national significance,” he says proudly. And the 72-year-old Petersen can tell you why. Then Jim Peterson and his adult son Tom stand back as 30 visitors file into the cavernous space, gasping softly as the afternoon light slants in through a large side window at this long-mothballed Army airfield.ĭeathly quiet, the place feels historic.
Slowly, they slide open the towering 24-foot-high door to the old airfield maintenance hangar, putting their backs into the mission like the U.S. WENDOVER, Utah - The son leans in first, the father behind him.
