Today we turn our attention to the great state of Texas to see what they were up to during World War II. We at Aces High like to do this sort of thing from time to time simply because we are fascinated by World War 2 and it is that fascination that fuels us and inspires us to make the best combat flight simulator on the market. Hundreds of thousands of flight sim gamers can’t be wrong, right? So let’s say howdy to Texas!
Because of its hot and dry weather, Texas was one of the leading states during the War for pilot and crew training. Clear skies and vast, open spaces made Texas a natural location for flight training and quite a few airfields were built in the Lonestar State because of that reason.
Time and space do not allow us to list all of the airfields that are in Texas but here are a few:
- Amarillo Air Force Base, now Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport
- Big Spring AAF/Webb Air Force Base, now Big Spring McMahon-Wrinkle Airport
- Central Flying Training Command, now Jones Field Airport in Bryan
- Central Flying Training Command, now part of Texas A&M University, Childress
- Contractor Flying School, now Corsicana Municipal Airport
- Ellington Air Force Base, now Ellington Field
- Fort Worth Air Force Base, was Griffis Air Force Base, now Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base
- Forster Air Force Base, now Victoria Regional Airport
- Aloe AAF, Victoria, was Matagorda Island Air Force Base, now closed
- Contractor Flying School, now Garner Field Airport
- Contractor Flying School now Fort Stockton-Pecos County Airport
- Central Flying Training Command, now Good fellow Air force Base
And the list literally goes on and on, numbering close to fifty in number, all built immediately before or immediately after the start of World War II. Land was purchased, bulldozers were brought in, runways were paved, Quonset huts erected and within a month a new airfield was ready for operations. And the truly remarkable part of this sage is that this happened in practically every state in the nation during the war. The United States industrial machine was fully operational by 1942, as large a factor in the outcome of the war as any battle ever fought.
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