Hill Air Force Base audio-visual collection
Scope and Contents
Dates
- 1938-1986
Creator
- Hill Air Force Base (Utah) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Historical Note
Hill Air Force Base is a major U.S. Air Force (USAF) base located in Davis County, Utah, just south of the city of Ogden, and bordering the Cities of Layton, Clearfield, Riverdale, Roy, and Sunset. The base was named in honor of Major Ployer Peter Hill of the U.S. Army Air Corps, who died test-flying NX13372, the original Model 299 prototype of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber.
Hill Field became the Hill Air Force Base on 5 February 1948, following the creation of the United States Air Force. During the Korean War, Hill AFB was assigned a major share of the Air Materiel Command's logistical effort to support the combat in Korea. Hill AFB personnel quickly removed needed warplanes from storage, renovated them, and added them to active-service USAF flying squadrons.
During the 1960s, Hill AFB began to perform maintenance support for various kinds of jet warplanes, mainly the F-4 Phantom II during the Vietnam War, and then afterward, the more modern F-16 Fighting Falcon, A-10 Thunderbolt II and C-130 Hercules, and also air combat missile systems and air-to-ground rockets. Hill AFB continues to carry out these tasks to the present day.
Hill AFB also houses the 30-acre Hill Aerospace Museum since 1981. It contains more than 80 retired USAF, U.S. Army Air Forces, U.S. Navy and former Warsaw Pact fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and missiles.
Extent
45 16mm film
1 Mini DV
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Arrangement
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Separated Materials
Processing Information
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Creator
- Hill Air Force Base (Utah) (Organization)
- United States. Air Force (Organization)
- Title
- Hill Air Force Base audio-visual collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid written by Special Collections Staff.
- Date
- 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- The finding aid was written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu