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33d Flying Training Wing (World War II)

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Active
  
1942-1946

Type
  
Command and Control

Country
  
United States

Role
  
Training

33d Flying Training Wing (World War II)

Branch
  
United States Army Air Forces

Part of
  
Army Air Forces Training Command

The 33d Flying Training Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the Central Flying Training Command, and was disbanded on 13 October 1946 at Randolph Field, Texas.

Contents

There is no lineage between the United States Air Force 33d Fighter Wing, established on 15 October 1947 at Roswell Army Airfield, New Mexico, and this organization.

History

The wing was a World War II Command and Control organization which supported Training Command Flight Schools in Central and Northern Texas and Oklaholma. The assigned schools provided phase III advanced two-engine flying training for Air Cadets, along with advanced B-25 Mitchell transition training for experienced pilots for reassignment to other flying units. Air Cadet graduates of the advanced schools were commissioned as Second Lieutenants, received their "wings" and were reassigned to Operational or Replacement Training Units operated by one of the four numbered air fores in the zone of interior.

As training requirements changed during the war, schools were activated and inactivated or transferred to meet those requirements.

Lineage

  • Established as 33d Flying Training Wing on 17 December1942
    • Activated on 16 January 1943 Disbanded on 13 October 1946.

    Assignments

  • AAF Gulf Coast Training Center (later Central Flying Training Command), 16 January 1943 – 13 October 1946

    • Training aircraft

    The schools of the wing used primarily the Beechcraft AT-7 and Cessna AT-17/UC-78 as their two-engine advanced trainer.

  • Curtiss-Wright AT-9 high performance two-engine trainers were also used for high-performance fighter training
  • Beechcraft AT-10s for two-engine bomber training.
  • North American B-25s were used for two-engine transition training
  • L-2, L-3, L-4, TG-5 and TG-6s were used for glider and liaison pilot training

    • Stations

  • Blackland Army Airfield, Texas, 16 January 1943
  • Waco Army Airfield, Texas, 8 Jul 1944
  • Randolph Field, Texas, (temporary 31 October 1945) permanent 5 August-13 October 1946

    • References

    33d Flying Training Wing (World War II) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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