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• Title: Offutt Air Force Base, Glenn L. Martin-Nebraska Bomber Plant, Building D, Peacekeeper Drive, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE
• Other Title: Glenn L. Martin-Nebraska Bomber Plant, Facility No. 301
• Creator(s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator
• Related Names:
     Albert Kahn Associated Architects and Engineers
     United States Air Force
     Glenn L. Martin Company
     Lockheed Martin Company
     Lockheed Aircraft Company
     Lueninghoener, Ed
     National Park Service Intermountain Support Office
     Svenson, Gene
     Coburn, Jean
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
• Medium: Photo(s): 31
  Measured Drawing(s): 7
  Data Page(s): 51
  Photo Caption Page(s): 8
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
  
• Call Number: HAER NE-9-R
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Significance: In 1940, as the United States faced the prospect of its entry into World War II, the War Department authorized four new aircraft assembly plants, including the bomber plant built at Fort Crook (Offutt Airfield) near Bellevue, Nebraska. Built by Glenn L. Martin Company, the Aircraft Manufacturing and Assembly Building (commonly known as Building "D" or Facility 301) is the largest and most significant building within the Glenn L. Martin-Nebraska Bomber Plant, which included seventeen structures and two main runways. The structure is best remembered for the production of heavy bombers, including the B-26C (Martin Marauder) and B-29 (Boeing Superfortress), which were used with effectiveness during World War II. By the end of 1944, the facility was manufacturing more than fifty B-29s per month, including the secretly assembled and specifically equipped bombers Enola Gay and Bock's Car used to deliver and drop the world's first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The aircraft assembly building is also significant for its association with Glenn L. Martin and the aviation company he founded. The Glenn L. Martin Company, renamed Lockheed Martin in 1995 after its merger with Lockheed Aircraft Company, designed the first mechanized conveyor system used to assemble the B-29. Noted modern industrialist architect Albert Kahn designed the enormous utilitarian structure, which measured 900' long and 600' wide when completed in 1941. Building "D" is one of the most important works of engineering and architecture in Nebraska and one of the most historically significant World War II era buildings in the United States.
  • Survey number: HAER NE-9-R
  • Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction
• Subjects:
  • war (World War II)
  • aircraft industry
  • military aircraft
  • assembly plants
• Place:
  • Nebraska -- Sarpy County -- Bellevue
• Latitude/Longitude: 41.13667, -95.89055999999999
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: HAER NE-9-R
• Medium: Photo(s): 31
  Measured Drawing(s): 7
  Data Page(s): 51
  Photo Caption Page(s): 8

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• Call Number: HAER NE-9-R
• Medium: Photo(s): 31
  Measured Drawing(s): 7
  Data Page(s): 51
  Photo Caption Page(s): 8

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