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NV-LEA58-172.JPG Louis Dellamonica continues to work at the Army Depot after nearly 62 years. He came for the ground breaking at HWAD in 1929 and started work on December 13, 1941. They had to call him in from a construction site for this photo and he drove himself. He was working on three contracts at the time. Born in the near-by Mason Valley, Dellamonica is a 1934 graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno and is a walking encyclopedia of HWAD. At work at the Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD). At 147,000 acres, HWAD is the world's largest such facility with over 2000 bunkers and 5.6 million square feet of storage space., Hawthorne, NV ©2003, Larry Angier Image West Photography • 209.223.2881 • 209.765.3104 email: larry@angier-fox.com or carolyn@angier-fox.com |