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The Pentagon is that the headquarters of the us Department of Defense, placed in city County, Virginia. As a logo of the U.S. Military, “the Pentagon” is commonly used metonymically to confer with the Department of Defense instead of the building itself.
Designed by the yankee designer George Bergstrom (1876–1955), and engineered by general contractor John McShain of metropolis, the building was dedicated on January fifteen, 1943, when ground was broken for construction on Sep 11, 1941. General Brehon Somervell provided the most important mobility behind the project; commissioned military officer Leslie Groves was answerable for overseeing the project for the military.
The Pentagon is that the World’s largest building by floor space, with concerning half-dozen,500,000 square foot (600,000 m2), of which 3,700,000 square foot (340,000 m2) square measure used as offices. Close to twenty eight,000 military and civilian staff and concerning three,000 non-defense support personnel add the Pentagon. It’s 5 sides, 5 floors higher than 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 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics would target one or additional nuclear missiles at this central location within the eruption of a nuclear war.
On Sep 11, 2001, precisely sixty years when the building’s groundbreaking, hijacked yankee 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 a hundred twenty five operating within the building).
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