Things could be worse - we could be stuck in Wells. The airbase itself was donated to Wendover, Utah in the 1970s, and walking around the old structures is like entering another era. Old jitneys are stored next to a building which I've been told once served as the Officer's Club. Barrack buildings sit empty, windows broken out, roofs sagging, paintless. The B-29 hanger, where the Enola Gay and other bombers of the unit were serviced between training flights, is unmarked.
Sheetmetal siding is marred with holes and rust.
There is nothing to mark the past significance of this place, and most visitors to Wendover are unaware of its historical significance. Nor would they care. In 1995, a great controversy arose over the Smithsonian's planned exhibit featuring the Enola Gay. Conservatives and some veterans were upset that the planned exhibit would explore whether or not the bombing of Hiroshima was truly necessary. One veteran's response to this situation was to begin raising money for the restoration of Wendover Field, with the goal of prying the Enola Gay loose from the grasp of the nasty liberal historians of the Smithsonian.