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Indiana World War II Army Airfields

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Major Airfields
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During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Indiana for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers.

Most of these airfields were under the command of the First Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC), a predecessor of the current Air Education and Training Command of the United States Air Force. However the other USAAF support commands—Air Technical Service Command (ATSC); Air Transport Command (ATC) or Troop Carrier Command—also commanded a significant number of airfields in support roles.

It is still possible to find remnants of these wartime airfields. Many were converted into municipal airports, some were returned to agriculture, and several were retained as United States Air Force installations and were front-line bases during the Cold War. Hundreds of the temporary buildings that were used survive today and are being used for other purposes.

Major Airfields

Troop Carrier Command

Baer Army Air Base, Fort Wayne

I Troop Carrier Group

45th Army Air Force Base Unit

Now: Fort Wayne Air National Guard Station {{Airport codes|FWA|KFWA|FWA}}

Stout Field AAF, Indianapolis

Headquarters, Troop Carrier Command, Glider Ferrying & Pickup facility

I Troop Carrier Group

362d Army Air Force Base Unit

Used by Indiana Air National Guard until 1961. Now closed and part of urbanised Indianaoplis area

Air Transport Command

Bendix Field AAF, South Bend

Now: South Bend Regional Airport {{Airport codes|SBN|KSBN|SBN}}

Air Technical Service Command

Evansville MAP, Evansville

Now: Evansville Regional Airport {{Airport codes|EVV|KEVV|EVV}}

Freeman Army Airfield, Seymour

Southeast Training Center

447th Army Air Force Base Unit

Now: Freeman Municipal Airport {{Airport codes|SER|KSER|ESER}}

Army Air Force Training Command

Atterbury Army Airfield, Columbus

Sub-base of George AAF, Illinois (now: Lawrenceville-Vincennes International Airport {{Airport codes|LWV|KLWV|LWV}})

304th Army Air Force Base Unit

Now: Columbus Municipal Airport {{Airport codes|CLU|KBAK|BAK}}

Other

Note: Bunker Hill Air Force Base / later Grissom Air Force Base, now Grissom Air Reserve Base, was a United States Navy airfield known as Naval Air Station Bunker Hill during World War II.

References

{{cite web|last=Brooks|first=David W.|title=Military Airfields in WW2|url=http://www.airfieldsdatabase.com/WW2/WW2.htm|date=November 19, 2011|accessdate=March 29, 2014}}
{{cite book|last=Maurer|first=Maurer|title=Air Force Combat Units of World War II|date=1983|publisher=Office of Air Force History|location=Maxwell AFB, Alabama|isbn=1-47768-565-0}}
{{cite book|last=Ravenstein|first=Charles A.|title=Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947-1977|date=1984|publisher=Office of Air Force History|location=Maxwell AFB, Alabama|isbn=0-912799-12-9}}
{{cite book|last=Thole|first=Lou|title=Forgotten Fields of America: World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2.|date=1999|publisher=Pictorial Histories Pub.|isbn=1-57510-051-7}}

External links

{{Portal|United States Air Force|Military of the United States}}{{USAAF Training Bases World War II}}{{USAAF 1st Air Force World War II}}

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