Abstract Manuscript Collection 55 (MS 55) was donated on April 2, 1987 and contains items collected by the Ogden Chamber of Commerce from 1920 – 1987. The collection comprises 36 boxes of records chronicling the activities of Ogden city’s major coordinating organization for business and commercial activities. The collection includes annual reports, brochures, financial reports, meeting minutes, memorabilia, military affairs, newsletters, newspapers, photographs, railroad and tax records. In...

Abstract

Newspaper articles, newspaper supplements and photographs of the Ogden Defense Depot, Ogden, Utah and Hill Air Force Base, Clearfield, Utah, 1941-1979. Newspaper articles are from The Deseret News and photographs depict early American fighter jet and Hill Air Force Base runway. Oversize manuscript drawer.

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Hill Air Force base played an important role during World War II and trained many enlisted men during the war time efforts. William H. Jones was enlisted from Pennsylvania and died in 1993.

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Identification cards for William R. Cornell, Captain of the Air Corps, Hill Field,

Utah, 1943-1945. Includes serology card for Elva Cornell, a tobacco ration card, and a tent area

admittance card.