34th Flying Training Wing (World War II)
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Locations of airfields controlled by the 34th Flying Training Wing
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| Active | 1942-1946 |
| Country |
 United States
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| Branch |
 United States Army Air Forces
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| Type | Command and Control |
| Role | Training |
| Part of | Army Air Forces Training Command |
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The 34th Flying Training Wing was a wing of the United States Army Air Forces. It was last assigned to the Central Flying Training Command, and was disbanded on 16 June 1946 at Midland Army Airfield, Texas.
There is no lineage between the United States Air Force 34th Training Wing, established on 20 November 1940 as the 34th Bombardment Group (Heavy) at Langley Field, Virginia, and this organization.
The wing supervised Training Command Flight Schools in Central and Northern Texas and Oklahoma. The assigned schools provided specialized training for bombardiers, and the wing was the home of the "West Texas Bombardier Quadrangle" schools (Childress, Midland, San Angelo, and Big Spring Army Airfields).
The wing also provided specialized schools for training on the two-engine Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber (Dodge City, Laughlin Army Airfields), and the B-24 Liberator four-engine heavy bomber (Fort Worth, Liberal Army Airfields). After graduation Air Cadets 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.
The schools of the wing used primarily the Beechcraft AT-11 for bombardier training.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
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