Hill Air Force Base audio-visual collection

Collection

Identifier: A0407

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Hill Air Force Base audio-visual collection contains 45 16mm films and 1 MiniDV tape related to the United States Air Force history. It includes films of the World War II, Korean War, Cold War, and Vietnam War eras, as well as films about the F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft and other hardware, weapons testings, and training videos. One of them was filmed in the Utah Testing and Training Range. This collection is not yet digitized. Contact Special Collections if interested.

Dates

Creation: 1938-1986

Creator

Hill Air Force Base (Utah) (Organization)
United States. Air Force (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Conditions Governing Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

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

Additional Description

Abstract

The Hill Air Force Base audio-visual collection consists of 16mm films related to the United States Air Force. It includes films about the Air Force in different wars, its aircrafts, weapon testing, and more. This collection is not yet digitized. Contact Special Collections if interested.