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Indiana World War II Army Airfields

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Type
  
Army Airfields

In use
  
1940-present

Built
  
1940-1944

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 (IATA: FWA, ICAO: KFWA, FAA LID: 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. Now closed and part of urbanised Indianaoplis area

    Air Transport Command

  • Bendix Field AAF, South Bend
    • Now: South Bend Regional Airport (IATA: SBN, ICAO: KSBN, FAA LID: SBN)

    Air Technical Service Command

  • Evansville MAP, Evansville
    • Now: Evansville Regional Airport (IATA: EVV, ICAO: KEVV, FAA LID: EVV)
  • Freeman Army Airfield, Seymour
    • Southeast Training Center 447th Army Air Force Base Unit Now: Freeman Municipal Airport (IATA: SER, ICAO: KSER, FAA LID: ESER)

    Army Air Force Training Command

  • Atterbury Army Airfield, Columbus
    • Sub-base of George AAF, Illinois (now: Lawrenceville-Vincennes International Airport (IATA: LWV, ICAO: KLWV, FAA LID: LWV)) 304th Army Air Force Base Unit Now: Columbus Municipal Airport (IATA: CLU, ICAO: KBAK, FAA LID: 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

    Indiana World War II Army Airfields Wikipedia
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