Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 63, Ordnance Storage No. 2, Corner of Tenth & E Streets, Dayton, Montgomery County, OH. Surveyed as HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1AU-, with 1 photograph and a 282-word written history.
“Ordnance Storage No. 2 was built as the gun range and ordnance storage for the Armament Laboratory during Wright Field's World War II construction boom.”
Written record, HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1AU- survey. Machine-read text.
surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1AU- · the record runs 282 words · one of 121 surveyed structures published for this county.
1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.
The headings the report itself prints. Each one jumps to where it begins.
Source document Quoted word for word from HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1AU-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
Ordnance Storage No. 2 was built as the gun range and ordnance storage for the Armament Laboratory during Wright Field's World War II construction boom. Project History: This report is part of the overall Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, Area B documentation project conducted by HAER See overview report, HAER No. OH-79, for a complete description of the project. WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, AREA B, BUILDING 63,
Ordnance Storage
No. 2 HAER No. 0H-79-AU (Page 2)
Source document Quoted word for word from HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1AU-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
Ordnance Storage Building No. 2 is a one-story, rectangular building with a flat, parapeted roof with concrete coping. The stretcher bond brick walls contain steel framing. The south entrance has concrete steps leading to double steel doors, and a stairway down to the basement that houses a gun range and the original ammunition storage bunkers. HISTORY: Built in as the gun range and ordnance storage for the Armament Laboratory, Building 63 was converted to a bionics laboratory in the and currently houses a portion of the Aircraft Survivability Research function. After a lengthy period of disuse, the range in the basement was recently reactivated with a newly installed electric rail gun for aircraft survivability testing.
For bibliography, see Wright-Patterson Air Force Base overview report (HAER No. OH-79).
| Dayton, Ohio | The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town. |
| Montgomery County, Ohio | 86 topographic sheets across the county. |
| Library of Congress record | The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above. |
The federal surveyors worked through Dayton building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.
| Sheet | Structure | Survey | Report |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,2- | 18,145 words |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1- | 17,117 words |
 | Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum | HABS OHIO,57-DAYT,5- | 4,977 words |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1AP- | 3,380 words |
 | National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers | HABS OHIO,57-DAYT,11- | 2,810 words |
 | City of Dayton Municipal Building | HABS OHIO,57-DAYT,3- | 2,247 words |
| Dayton National Cemetery | HALS OH-3-A | 2,206 words | |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar House | HABS OHIO,57-DAYT,4- | 2,104 words | |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1B- | 2,104 words |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1S- | 1,641 words |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1E- | 1,628 words |
 | National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers | HABS OHIO,57-DAYT,11E- | 1,592 words |
| Bonebreak Theological Seminary | HALS OH-17 | 1,561 words | |
 | Old Montgomery County Courthouse | HABS OHIO,57-DAYT,2- | 1,501 words |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1H- | 1,327 words |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1AQ- | 1,289 words |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1D- | 1,251 words |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1A- | 1,205 words |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1BC- | 1,153 words |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1U- | 1,139 words |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1AN- | 1,105 words |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1W- | 1,104 words |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1Q- | 1,078 words |
 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | HAER OHIO,29-DAYT.V,1F- | 1,059 words |
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