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| Part of Second Air Force | |
| Located near: Wendover, Utah | |
 Tower and operations building | |
  Wendover AFB  Wendover AFB | |
| Coordinates | 40°43′07″N 114°01′51″W / 40.71861°N 114.03083°W |
| Type | Army Airfield/Bombing Range/Test and Development |
| Site information | |
| Owner | Tooele County, Utah |
| Condition | Still in use |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1940–45 |
| In use | 1941–1965 |
Wendover Air Force Base | |
| Nearest city | Wendover, Utah |
| NRHP reference No. | 75001827 |
| Added to NRHP | 1 July 1975 |
Wendover Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base in Utah now known as Wendover Airport. During World War II, it was a training base for B-17 and B-24 bomber crews. It was the training site of the 509th Composite Group, the B-29 unit that carried out the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
After the war, Wendover was used for training exercises, gunnery range and as a research facility. It was closed by the Air Force in 1969, and the base was given to Wendover City in 1977. Tooele County, Utah, assumed ownership of the airport and base buildings in 1998, and the County continues to operate the airfield as a public airport. A portion of the original bombing range is now the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) which is used extensively by the Air Force with live fire targets on the range.