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During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces established numerous airfields in Texas for training pilots and aircrews. The amount of available land and the temperate climate made Texas a prime location for year-round military training. By the end of the war, 65 Army airfields were built in the state. [1]
Camp Maxey is a Texas Military Department training facility that was originally built as a U.S. Army infantry-training camp during World War II. [1] It was occupied from July 1942 to early 1946, and located near the community of Powderly, Texas in the north central portion of Lamar County, Texas.
It is owned and operated by the city of Childress, Texas. A feature item of the CAAF museum exhibit is the Norden Bombsight, the great secret weapon of World War II, which was housed at CAAF during the war and was used to train bombardier pilots. It was stored in a vault in a small building which still stands (although in ruin) at the site of ...
Fort Wolters U.S. Highway 180 gate in 2018. Fort Wolters was a United States military installation four miles northeast of Mineral Wells, Texas.. The fort was originally named Camp Wolters in honor of Brigadier General Jacob F. Wolters, commander of the 56th Cavalry Brigade of the National Guard, which used the area as a summer training ground. [1]
In July 1917, three months after the American entry into World War I, the designation was changed to the 36th Division when the War Department directed the organization of the unit at at Camp Bowie, Texas, near Fort Worth, (related only in name to the later World War II-era camp near Brownwood, Texas) [5] under the command of Major General ...
Camp Swift military reservation. Camp Swift is currently owned by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, [8] but is managed by the Texas Military Forces headquartered on Camp Mabry in Austin and acts as a training center for the National and State Guard, active armed forces, law enforcement, JROTC and the Civil Air Patrol.
On 1 January 1945, the 2539th Army Air Forces Base Unit took control of the ground station administrative functions. As World War II wound down that summer, Foster Field took control of several smaller facilities as they were being closed. On 1 September, the mission at the airfield changed from pilot training to becoming a separation station.
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