HILL Air
Force Base is indeed located on a hill above Layton and Clearfield cities.
However, that is not where its name originated from.
“Honoring
the memory of Major Poyer P. Hill, who in 1935 gave his life in Army Air
Service, the Ogden Ordinance Air Depot, located at Sunset, Davis County, was
named last week and will be known as Hill Field,” the Davis County Clipper of
Dec. 8, 1939 reported.
A
650-foot-deep artesian well was also drilled for the base’s water supply, at a
cost of $8,937.
By February
of 1940, Hill Field was approved for $3.3 million in expenditures to construct
a warehouse, commissary, shop and garage.
Two F-35s from Hill AFB (Hill AFB photo.)
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