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The Pentagon is that the headquarters of the u. S. Department of Defense, situated in urban center County, Virginia. As a logo of the U.S. Military, “the Pentagon” is commonly used metonymically to seek advice from the Department of Defense instead of the building itself.Designed by the yank creator St. George Bergstrom (1876–1955), and designed by general contractor John McShain of urban center, the building was dedicated on January fifteen, 1943, once ground was broken for construction on Sep 11, 1941. General Brehon Somervell provided the key motivity behind the project; commissioned military officer Leslie Groves was liable for overseeing the project for the military.The Pentagon is that the World’s largest edifice by floor space, with concerning vi,500,000 square measure (600,000 m2), of which 3,700,000 square measure (340,000 m2) area unit used as offices. Some twenty eight,000 military and civilian staff and concerning three,000 non-defense support personnel add the Pentagon. It’s 5 sides, 5 floors on top of ground, 2 basement levels, and 5 ring corridors per floor with a complete of seventeen.5 mi (28.2 km) of corridors. The Pentagon includes a five-acre (20,000 m2) central plaza, that is formed sort of a pentagon and informally called “ground zero”, a nickname originating throughout the conflict and supported the presumption that the state would target one or a lot of nuclear missiles at this central location within the irruption of a nuclear war.On Sep 11, 2001, specifically sixty years once the building’s groundbreaking, hijacked yank Airlines Flight 77—a Boeing 757-223—was crashed into the western facet of the Pentagon, killing 189 individuals (the 5 hijackers, fifty nine others aboard the plane, and one hundred twenty five operating within the building).
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