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1. The monument commemorating the dedication of Easterwood Airfield on May 22, 1941, is located at Gate 12, just to the left of the front entrance. 2. Gibb Gilchrist went on to become President of Texas A&M College and later served as the first Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System. 3. Gibb Gilchrist was a graduate of the University of Texas. 4. Gate 12 owner J. Cody Whitten lived next door to Gibb Gilchrist and delivered his newspaper until Gilchrist’s death in 1972. 5. The Oran W. Nicks Low Speed Wind Tunnel is located directly across the parking lot from Gate 12. 6. Hanging in the hallway of the Wind Tunnel is a decades-old newspaper article telling the story of how the propeller displayed at Gate 12 reportedly came from the Enola Gay. This propeller was the first B-29 prop to power the Wind Tunnel. 7. Texas A&M’s nuclear research reactor is located across the runway from Gate 12, with a large ATM logo painted on its exterior. 8. Texas A&M’s nuclear reactor is a research reactor, not a power-generating facility. It produces less energy than even a single modern utility-scale wind turbine like the thousands of wind turbines operating across the United States.