My father was stationed there during WWII until he was reassigned to Portland, OR.
@davehue9517
11 күн бұрын
Whenever I hear of Tonapah I remember my oldest late brother, who was an ironworker for many years, traveling to Tonapah to work....I never knew exactly what ironworks project he was working on but I sure miss him...
@johndonlon1611
8 күн бұрын
This place should have been on the National Register of Historic Places and at least preserved to some degree. What happened here during and. shortly after WW2 is the stuff of which legends are and were made. Thanks for sharing this to the world.
@OldMiner-wj6rr
7 күн бұрын
We donated a big generator from yucca mountain to Nye County and delivered it to them at that location. They (Nye County ) said it was a huge B24 air base during WW2. They showed us that you could pick up old belts of 50 cal ammo that they would throw out before landing. The Nye County guys had a bunch of these 50 cal belts. Really interesting!
@rkelsey3341
12 күн бұрын
Aircraft are housed in Hangars, clothes are hung on Hangers.
@BlackdogADV
11 күн бұрын
Correct!
@smarternu
5 күн бұрын
Yep.
@adriaanboogaard8571
2 күн бұрын
That hanger is amazing. Sadly, like any other structure, once the roof isn't maintained the rest goes. I still see some shine to that floor. I think that's old time pride in the work hanging on. Lot's of stories in that old place.
@jeffbrooke4892
8 күн бұрын
I did some contract work out of Tonapah about 25 years ago and took a walk around the old field. I was told that the city tried to operate it as a municipal airport but it failed. If you think about it, all the air space to the immediate east is restricted by the Nellis AFB Test and Training Range and the distance between Las Vegas and Reno is no real challenge for modern aircraft so its current use as an airfield in marginal at best. If its any help, the airfield and buildings looked pretty much the same in the late 90s. Thanks for the video!
@blitzenization
11 күн бұрын
I was there a few years ago, hangers are so awesome. The old street layout is still there, going around the base are old building slab foundations, some labeled as to what they were. One was labeled for link trainer. Some slabs still have the rocks the soldiers picked up and set in lines as boarder like you see in old war movies. Let your imagination wander, some slabs were showers desearnable by the shower drains and toilet outlets. There is an old gold mine "ghost town" in the area that has a tall brick chimney still standing from the smelter. The story is the pilots from tonapah would use it for machine gun target practice as the top ten feet is all shot up.
@paveltolz6601
10 күн бұрын
Nice video, thanks. The base layout reminds me of Wendover which isn't surprising given the base cookie cutter approach during the war. Wendover's hanger, cousin to this big one, was home to the Anola Gay during the train up to dropping the Atomic bombs. It's currently undergoing extensive renovations. The other five hangers that face the flight line are also fully functional. One has recently been modernized and enlarged. Worth the stop over if you haven't done so already (and I've missed the video). Safe sojourns.
@doskraut
4 күн бұрын
Back around 1997 I worked at the Tustin air base after it closed, I had the chance to tour both hangers and go on the very top of the west hanger. I love exploring old things.
@icncu222
11 күн бұрын
Thank you for sharing! I appreciated you taking the time to explore the old Studebaker Pickup! Was surprised to see that out there!
@PalmettoNDN
12 күн бұрын
This is a wonderful adventure. That k you for sharing it and that K's for your service.
@carltonlhulings3815
7 күн бұрын
Go to the museum in town to understand history. Read the book "The Right Stuff" for what was like in WW2 . Lived and worked in Tonapah, Hawthorn,Goldfield then across the stste to Ely. Twenty years in Nevada.
@plunkervillerr1529
5 күн бұрын
Marx train guy here, the pick-up is a 1949-53 Studerbaker.
@Zoeyqd
16 сағат бұрын
Thanks everyone for their service 👍🏼👍🏼pretty cool 😎
@SimonWallwork
Күн бұрын
I've been here too. Was looking for the F-117s- but they were at a different Tonopah!
@dlshady
11 күн бұрын
I saw this thumbnail pop up and thought "How strange, one of the guys from ARfcom just shared some pictures from this place." Then it dawned on me.... Thanks for sharing!
@TheYTSucks
7 күн бұрын
FUAROCK!
@411gtz
2 күн бұрын
It would have been cool to have some pictures of what it once was. We had so much going on in WW2. Thanks
@denniseldridge2936
12 күн бұрын
Hi there - this is a very interesting location. I love old military installations thanks to my dad who served in the British Merchant Marine in WWII. I'd be very interested in knowing the post-war history of this location, as it clearly had relatively modern electrical hookups installed at some point. Great stuff!
@BlackdogADV
12 күн бұрын
My team is working on that, I’ll have an answer shortly. I do know that one hanger was used as a roller skating rink at one time.
@timeflysintheshop
5 күн бұрын
That was a cool adventure! Thanks for making a video about it. 👍😁😎
@ronkreed
16 сағат бұрын
Interesting on the video of the outside electrical panels. They're more modern with PVC conduit.
@kevanwebb6086
7 күн бұрын
Hey Blackdog. Unfortunately we don’t have wide open spaces or many accessible abandoned sites the UK (Dixeie Chicks fan) but I just wondered what sort of camera you use? As far as the bike, I’m a VFR rider… Good video, TQ. Doh 😂 if I’d waited ‘till I commented I’d have known what camera you used !!!! 🎉
@Jack-ne8vm
3 күн бұрын
I surveyed on that airfield for a week around 1980. The old site maps showed where everything was. As luck would have it, a race plane P51 (Strega?) & Rare Bear chase made some speed attempts so we had to stay off the runway... Not sure of plane names...
@davekreitzer4358
7 күн бұрын
We're they there waiting to be fareied to Europe ? A staging area ? Seems that would be right , weren't really needed in that amount here 🤔
@FarmerTom-bz6tn
3 күн бұрын
At the Corsicana, TX airport there are some old WW2 era hangars left with the sliding doors on roller tracks in the concrete. Of course they look nothing as nice as what you have shown here. I don't remember how many bare foundations are left of the hangars that once existed. Used to be a training facility for early prop driven military planes.
@arneminderman3770
10 күн бұрын
Great video!
@JamesSmith-oe1ot
5 күн бұрын
There is another one of these just north and west of Dodge city ks Starting to fall in a little now. I think it was for B24 training. The runway goes thru a feedyard! Many chimneys still standing from the old barracks.
@carlmclelland7624
4 күн бұрын
One of the Army Air Corps cadets who trained here was none other than... Chuck Yeager. The 'hot spot' in Tonopah back then was the Mizpah Hotel in beautiful, downtown Tonopah. This is an airfield that - over time - simply refuses to die. The FAA had a Flight Service Station here until the late 70s. A controller buddy worked there and I visited him in... oh... 74 or 75. His comment, "It's a great place to live, but I wasn't ready for retirement." There's a lot of mystique and mystery involving this area. I landed here once in a Cessna 402, to deliver some mining equipment. A Merlin Metroliner with the cabin windows painted out landed, discharged passengers and took off. (Ever heard of "Janet Airlines?" Back in the 70's, the operated two DC6's, and a bunch of Cessna 402s and Metroliners). I, too, have walked through both those old hangars... thanks for the memories.................
@barrygrant2907
2 күн бұрын
The Army "Air Corp" ceased to exist in May 1941, prior to the Pearl Harbor attack. Everything after that date was AAF until 1947 when it became USAF.
@carlmclelland7624
2 күн бұрын
WELL, excuse me! "Bad cop... no donuts!" Not a soul in the world would know what I was talking about. IF you really want to get technical, the "Army Air Corps" DID NOT cease to exist in May, 1941. Try 20 June 1941. That's all right, though. I'm sure you clicked the 'May' instead of 'June' button by accident.
@FarmerTom-bz6tn
3 күн бұрын
Are their photo archives showing the base and buildings being constructed? If so, I'd love to see them.
@Steve.D
13 күн бұрын
Interesting tour. Looks like the last one might get some ongoing protection via fencing and personnel maybe?
@BlackdogADV
13 күн бұрын
A little protection maybe. All this is an industrial park now. The original airstrip is still functional and that makes it pretty attractive. I think the hangers will eventually be demolished because of their condition.
@orbitingeyes2540
12 сағат бұрын
My father trained at TPH on B24s in 1943.
@andrewklahold2880
2 күн бұрын
Looks like a place some one should turn in to a museum 🎉
@ClancyWoodard-yw6tg
12 күн бұрын
I bet. If someone had the place The time and the money that could probably haul that truck body out of there and actually rebuild it.
@fredwood1490
5 күн бұрын
Most of the building and infrastructure built for World War Two was of temporary construction, meant to last for the duration of the war, not cost much, use cheap materials and be abandoned as soon as possible. The barracks we used for boot camp, (DPPO basic training), at Gulfport Miss., in 1969, was of that construction and becoming very rare. It was also a real firetrap, with 1940 electrical fittings and I don't remember there being any heat, except for the Company Commander's office. Most of the infrastructure at Quonset Point was either newer or built to last forever, but all the WW2 stuff was long gone, except for ammo bunkers. Most WW2 Navy stuff was made of wood while most Vietnam stuff was made of sheet metal and lasted about as long. Considering the way our military flexes, small standing armies and huge wartime armies, I think those planners were right on. Still, there are stories in those places, now lost and stories by the people who served at them, also mostly lost. Time is always in motion, we have no idea where the Spartans did their boot camp, or the great armies of Egypt, we have stones left from the Romans but little of the Western Frontier Armies of the United States. Wars and armies are a necessary evil, not things that make the world a better place, maybe these places are better off being forgotten stories.
@bad74maverick1
Күн бұрын
As an electrician I can tell you now, I don't know what that Hangar was used for but it was used through the 90's and or beyond. @2:50, that's a square D main panel and to the left is a coax box possible with phone block inside. The main coming in is modern. I know there's an airport there or near, do they use the original strips? Or is the base just simply located on air port property?
@BlackdogADV
Күн бұрын
I’m sure it has been used for a variety of things since 1948.
@bad74maverick1
Күн бұрын
@@BlackdogADV I kind of figured. Does the airport still use the original strips for anything? Or is it just located on airport property?
@BlackdogADV
Күн бұрын
As far as I know the airstrip is still in use.
@bad74maverick1
Күн бұрын
@@BlackdogADV Hey history lives on!
@joekelley1014
Күн бұрын
The truck is an old Studebaker.
@fredwood1490
5 күн бұрын
Passing thought: I wonder if these hangers were ever painted? Not much rain out there and very temporary construction, maybe not!
@Shield.148
2 күн бұрын
This should be renovated into a city of tiny homes for homeless veterans, using solar and wind power.
@jeffryheintz5738
7 күн бұрын
Truck is a Studebaker.
@kevinhothan7328
2 күн бұрын
My first thought was that its an International truck ??
@jeffryheintz5738
2 күн бұрын
@@kevinhothan7328, Nope I make body panels for Studebakers, as well as owning one.
@kevinhothan7328
2 күн бұрын
@@jeffryheintz5738 Cool
@kenlewis11
Күн бұрын
Shame they let it ruin. Think of what it would take to build now.
@pirateatfourty
3 сағат бұрын
there wasor is a old abandones airbase in northern nevada. found iut while rabbit chasing in a old pipercub backin the early 70s/ 6 huge hangers old houses. i found all sorts of neat stuffin th eold hangers. p 51 props in boxes and 2 neew p 51 canopys. i wen home my buddy and i rented a uhaul box van came back and grabbed allof it old tools old manuals. filled the vanup and the flat bed trailer.not sure what the bases name was when we got there the main gates looked like they hadnt been open since ww2 were old houses barracks. i could never find out what the name of the base was . in fact the electricity was still on. did not belong to anyone i checked witht e military the army the airforce no one could find any information on it. i told them well the electricity is still on. i went back a month later and the electricity was off. so someone knew something. i flew ovver it a few years ago and it is all gone.punks had i guess set it on fire. everything was burnt to the ground,glad i got what i did. i think it mightof been a emergency base. not sure but the spiders and snakes were in control lol shot a few rattlers and killed a whole bunch of tarantulas
@stanleybest8833
4 күн бұрын
An obvious pair of hangars to fix up
@smarternu
5 күн бұрын
It would not say Air force, It would say US Army. The Army Air corps was the fly boy group in the 1940's.
@barrygrant2907
2 күн бұрын
The Air Corp ceased to exist in May 1941, becoming the Army Air Force.
@smarternu
2 күн бұрын
@@barrygrant2907 Yep and the US Air Force was begun in late 1947. (I had remembered it as 51, but it was 47.)
@ChrisYarbrough-ts9cv
17 сағат бұрын
There are crashed b24's all over that desert
@FrederickHopkins-xb6me
3 күн бұрын
Gunnery and bombing range.
@georglimiux677
12 күн бұрын
With the price of wood these days, someone needs to grab all that before some jerk burns it down.
@stischer47
12 күн бұрын
Everyone just needs to leave everything alone. We are losing our heritage with all the vandalism.
@ChickenNugget-dk9hp
11 күн бұрын
The roof and structural elements are fine its just panelling that needs repairing.
@arneminderman3770
10 күн бұрын
Thanks!
@barrygrant2907
2 күн бұрын
@@ChickenNugget-dk9hp With today's material costs, it would not be worth rebuilding.
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