Indiana World War II Army Airfields

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events=During World War II, the United States Army Air Force (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 First Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC) (A predecessor of the current-day United States Air Force Air Education and Training Command). However the other USAAF support commands (Air Technical Service Command (ATSC); Air Transport Command (ATC) or Troop Carrier Command) commanded a significant number of airfields in a 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 AAF, Fort Wayne: I Troop Carrier Group: 45th Army Air Force Base Unit: Now: Fort Wayne International Airport Airport codes|FWA|KFWA|FWA
* Stout Field AAF, Indianapolis: Headquarters, Troop Carrier Command, Glider Ferrying & Pickup faciity: I Troop Carrier Group: 362d Army Air Force Base Unit: Used by Indiana Air National Guard until 1961.
[http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/IN/Airfields_IN_Indy_W.htm#stout Now closed and part of urbanised Indianaoplis area]

Air Transport Command
* Bendix Field AAF, South Bend: Now: Michiana Regional Airport Airport codes|SBN|KSBN|SBN

Air Technical Service Command
* Evansville MAP, Evansville : Now: Evansville Regional Airport Airport codes|EVV|KEVV|EVV
* Freeman AAF, Seymour: Southeast Training Center: 447th Army Air Force Base Unit: Now: Freeman Municipal Airport Airport codes|SER|KSER|ESER

Army Air Force Training Command
* Attenbury AAF, Columbus: Sub-base of George AAF, Illinois
Airport codes|ORD|KORD : 304th Army Air Force Base Unit: Now: Columbus Municipal Airport (Indiana) Airport codes|CLU|KCLU

* Note: Bunker Hill/Grissom Air Force Base was a United States Navy airfield during World War II.

References

* Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0892010924.
* Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947-1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0912799129.
* Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Pictorial Histories Pub . ISBN 1575100517
* [http://www.airfieldsdatabase.com/WW2/WW2.htm Military Airfields in World War II - Indiana]

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