Texas World War II Army Airfields

Texas World War II Army Airfields
Part of World War II
Amarillo AAF Big Spring AAF Jones Fld Bryan AAF Childress AAF Corsicana MAP Cuero AAF Ellington AAF Fort Worth AAF Foster AAF Garner APT Gibbs AAF Goodfellow AAF Hondo AAF Kaufman APT Lamesa AAF Laredo AAF Laughlin AAF Schreiner FLD Lubbock AAF Marfa AAF Harlingen AAF Midland AAF Mineral Wells AAF Moore AAF Pampa AAF Pecos AAF Pounds AAF Perrin AAF Randolph AAF Brooks AAF San Angelo AAF San Marcos AAF Killeen AAF Sheppard AAF Terrell MAP Waco AAF Temple AAF Wink AAF Abilene AAF Biggs AAF Brownsville AAF Dalhart AAF Galveston AAF Majors AAF Pyote AAF Brownwood AAF Del Valle AAF Map Of Texas World War II Army Airfields
Type	Army Airfields
Site information
Controlled by	United States Army Air Forces
Site history
Built	1940–1944
In use	1940–present
Garrison information
Garrison	Army Air Force Training Command

Many United States Air Force personnel have spent some of their military service being trained in Texas at fields originally built during World War II. Be it basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, technical training, officer training, or flight training at other facilities across the state. Texas is the home of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) located at Randolph Air Force Base, near San Antonio.

This tradition of training goes back to the very beginnings of the Air Force, with early fight training being held at various Army camps and airfields in Texas prior to World War I, and in the 1920s and 1930s.

From the poorly armed and understaffed United States Army Air Corps that existed at the time the first bombs were dropped on Pearl Harbor, the United States produced, just a few years later, the greatest Air Force the world has ever seen. The effort to achieve this was unprecedented.

During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Texas for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers.

Most of these airfields were under the command of Fourth Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC) (A predecessor of the current-day United States Air Force's 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.

To build the facilities needed to train personnel, a massive land acquisition program was carried out, but many cities offered land to the US Government (e.g., San Angelo for what became Goodfellow AFB) to entice the military to build a base and help the local economy.