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Pentagon Tours. Reserve Tour. OPM OPERATING STATUS: View Details. About the Tour. The Pentagon, one of the world's largest office buildings, is the headquarters of the Department of Defense....
Dec 19, 2019 · The Pentagon is a universal symbol of U.S. strength and security known around the world, but do you know the history behind it? The 1,100 acres of land on which the Pentagon sits was once part...
Dec 18, 2009 · The Pentagon is the Virginia headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, located in a massive five-sided concrete and steel building that’s a potent symbol of America’s military strength....
Apr 10, 2017 · The reason for the Pentagon’s shape is no myth, but other conspiracy theories and false beliefs persist, including an absurd claim that a plane never did plow into the building on 9/11. A Cold...
Pentagon, Huge five-sided building (1941–43) in Arlington, Va., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Designed by George Edwin Bergstrom, it was, on its completion, the world’s largest office building, covering 34 acres (14 hectares) and offering 3.7 million sq ft (about 344,000 sq m) of usable floor space for as many ...
The institutional status of the Pentagon derives from its role as nerve center of the country’s armed forces—the largest of U.S. government institutions. From 1942 to 1947 it housed the War...
Jun 9, 2021 · By Brian Gallagher, Jennifer Harlan and Janny Scott June 9, 2021. Share full article. ‘We’re Going to Publish’. An Oral History of the Pentagon Papers. Interviews for this oral history were...
