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On this day in 1943...
Last edited Tue Jan 15, 2013, 10:47 AM - Edit history (1)
...the world's largest office building, the Pentagon, was completed. Ground breaking was on 11 September 1941. (60 years to the day before the terrorist strike) Construction was overseen by, then Colonel, Leslie Groves who later headed the Manhattan Project.