German Village
German Village was the nickname for a range of mock houses constructed in 1943 by the U.S. Army in the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, roughly 85 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, in order to conduct experiments used for the bombing of Nazi Germany.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: section of Dugway Proving Ground in Tooele County, Utah, United States
- Also known as: “Dugway German Village”
German Village
- Categories: architectural structure and locality
- Location: Tooele County, Utah, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.13793° or 40° 8′ 17″ northLongitude
-113.00778° or 113° 0′ 28″ westOpen location code
85G84XQR+5VOpenStreetMap ID
way 1340429961OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q13635101
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In Other Languages
From German to Ukrainian—“German Village” goes by many names.
- German: “German Village (Dugway proving ground)”
- German: “German Village”
- Japanese: “ドイツ村”
- Ukrainian: “Німецьке селище”
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