Global Information Lookup Global Information

Dugway Proving Ground information


Dugway Proving Ground
Tooele County, Utah in the United States
Dugway Proving Ground encompasses a vast area of the western Utah desert
Dugway is located in the United States
Dugway
Dugway
Location in the United States
Coordinates40°13′15″N 112°44′39″W / 40.22083°N 112.74417°W / 40.22083; -112.74417
TypeMilitary test center
Site information
OwnerDepartment of Defense
OperatorUS Army
Controlled byArmy Test and Evaluation Command
ConditionOperational
WebsiteOfficial website
Site history
Built1942 (1942)
In use1942 – present
EventsDugway sheep incident (1968)
Garrison information
Current
commander
Colonel James P. Harwell

Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a U.S. Army facility established in 1942 to test biological and chemical weapons, located about 85 mi (137 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, and 13 mi (21 km) south of the 2,624 sq mi (6,800 km2) Utah Test and Training Range.

and 21 Related for: Dugway Proving Ground information

Request time (Page generated in 2.9254 seconds.)

Dugway Proving Ground

Last Update:

Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a U.S. Army facility established in 1942 to test biological and chemical weapons, located about 85 mi (137 km) southwest...

Word Count : 2743

Proving ground

Last Update:

designated as proving grounds. Aberdeen Proving Ground, a United States Army facility in Aberdeen, Maryland. It is the Army's oldest active proving ground, established...

Word Count : 1261

Dugway sheep incident

Last Update:

United States Army chemical and biological warfare programs at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Six thousand sheep were killed on ranches near the base...

Word Count : 1709

Aberdeen Proving Ground

Last Update:

Ballistic Research Laboratory Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Dugway Proving Ground United States Army Ordnance Training and Heritage Center Herman...

Word Count : 2763

Area 52

Last Update:

Tonopah Test Range, a military installation near Tonopah, Nevada Dugway Proving Ground, a military installation in Tooele County, Utah Area 52, codename...

Word Count : 237

Dugway

Last Update:

Dugway may refer to: Dugway Proving Ground, a United States military weapons testing range in Utah Dugway, Utah, a census-designated place near the Dugway...

Word Count : 67

Michael Army Airfield

Last Update:

located at the Dugway Proving Ground and owned by the United States Army. It is 9 miles (14 km) west of the proving grounds barracks at Dugway, Tooele County...

Word Count : 612

Skull Valley Indian Reservation

Last Update:

their Dugway Proving Ground facility located in the area immediately surrounding the Skull Valley Indian Reservation. The April 12, 1968 Dugway sheep...

Word Count : 3311

Napalm

Last Update:

conditions were carried out at Jefferson Proving Ground on condemned farm buildings and subsequently at Dugway Proving Ground on buildings designed and constructed...

Word Count : 3050

Closed city

Last Update:

development and testing of the UK's first atomic weapons. Dugway, Utah, inside the Dugway Proving Ground. The Gold Coast Historic District in Richland, Washington...

Word Count : 4278

Utah Test and Training Range

Last Update:

stationed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The East and West areas of the Dugway Proving Ground are contiguous with the South Area of the UTTR. The Wendover Army...

Word Count : 715

M69 incendiary

Last Update:

- Dugway Proving Ground". Archived from the original on 2010-05-09. Retrieved 2011-06-14. Plung, Dylan J. “The Japanese Village at Dugway Proving Ground:...

Word Count : 608

Operation Big Itch

Last Update:

were conducted at Dugway Proving Ground in 1954. Operation Big Itch was a September 1954 series of tests at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. The tests...

Word Count : 462

Granite Peak Installation

Last Update:

located on 250 square miles (650 km2) of Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. The GPI was a sub-installation of Dugway but had its own facilities, including utilities...

Word Count : 823

United States biological weapons program

Last Update:

while production and testing occurred at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. Pine Bluff Arsenal began production of weapons-grade agents...

Word Count : 7993

Firebombing

Last Update:

with the Bombing of Dresden. German Village (Dugway proving ground) Japanese Village (Dugway Proving Ground) Sir Arthur Harris General Curtis E. LeMay,...

Word Count : 1954

Sheeprock Mountains

Last Update:

other region perimeters. About 15-mi northwest is Dugway and the entrance to the Dugway Proving Ground, on the southeast perimeter of the Great Salt Lake...

Word Count : 481

List of military installations in Utah

Last Update:

Guard. Dugway Proving Ground - Allied biological and chemical weapon defense systems testing. Michael Army Airfield - Airport at Dugway Proving Ground. Hill...

Word Count : 305

Prisoners of war in Utah during World War II

Last Update:

J.; Alexander, Thomas G. (1964). "Sentinels on the Desert: The Dugway Proving Ground and Desert Chemical Depot". Utah Historical Quarterly. 32. doi:10...

Word Count : 2208

United States and weapons of mass destruction

Last Update:

accident killed approximately 6,400 sheep when an agent drifted out of Dugway Proving Ground during a test.) The U.S. also investigated a wide range of possible...

Word Count : 3694

Tonopah Test Range

Last Update:

51" is only a cover for Area 52. Aberdeen Proving Ground Air Force Flight Test Center Dugway Proving Ground Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Nevada...

Word Count : 1660

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net