Historic Wendover bomb loading pit restored in airfield museum

Historic Wendover bomb loading pit restored in airfield museum

A crucial piece of World War II history, once buried in secrecy, has been restored and opened to the public at the Wendover Historic Airfield in Utah.The newly completed project brings back to life a bomb loading pit where crews trained to load replica atomic bombs into B-29 bombers in the final months of the war.Tom Petersen with the Wendover Historic Airfield says the base operated under near total secrecy in its beginnings.Soldiers were told …