Pentagon - Facts

The Pentagon - US Department of Defense - is the nerve center of American military power. It ranks than 340,000 square meters of office surface with 23.000 coworkers and more among the largest office buildings of the world. More than 200,000 telephone calls are led daily from the offices. The building has 16 parking lots for scarcely
9,000 cars, 131 stairs and 13 elevators. Despite its unusual form and its passages, which are 28 kilometers long altogether, the Pentagon applies as a house of the short ways. Owing to numerous transverse courses the footpath between two arbitrary points amounts to never more than seven minutes. Libraries, business, one restaurant, two Cafeterien, six Snackbars and their own post office make the Ministry a "city in the city". The Pentagon was built 1941, briefly before the USA occurred the world war. The construction crews had to ram 41,492 concrete pillars for the stabilization of the construction into the swampy underground, in addition came 680,000 tons sand and gravel. It nevertheless took only 16 months, to to 15. January 1943 the Pentagon was officially opened. 83 million dollar the building had altogether cost.
The "brain" pentagon hides itself in the cellar: In the Room, deeply in the bomb-safe shelters, military specialists and strategists supervise situation approximately day and night the military happening around the world. Here all wires and information gather: Satellite and clearing-up pictures, secret service reports, messages from the US Military-Bases in the inland and in overseas. From here military units receive their employment instructions. The Pentagon of the characteristic sketch derives its name because of of the Greek name for the pentagon. US-ALLIED sees it as the symbol of the military superiority and deterrence and as guarantor of international security. For of Americas enemies against it the Pentagon is the epitome of the US imperialism.

The Pentagon, Greek pentagon, has five levels and consists of five parallel running inner rings.
Overall length of the corridors: 28 Kilometer
1941-43 from 1.000 architects and 14.000 workers establishes.
340.000 Quadratmeter Office surface.
23.000 Jobs
Is considered as one of the most efficient office buildings of the world.
Construction costs: 83 Millionen Dollar

The attack on the Pentagon met the USA in the middle in the proud heart, was considered it nevertheless as one of the safest buildings of the world. Nobody counted ever on an attack on the massive Ministry of Defense in Arlington with Washington. One believed to have the best security forceses of the world. But even the boldest defenders could not have repelled the approaching passenger plane any longer, than she took course abruptly on the Ministry of Defense, instead of landing like hundreds other airplanes per day at directly south of it the convenient Ronald Reagan national air port. The kidnapped airplane hit in the south west wing of the five-angular fortress. Died up to 800 humans.