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28th Flying Training Wing (U.S. Army Air Forces)

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medium bomber training for Dutch pilots. Riddle Field at Clewiston, Florida was a contract pilot school which taught both primary and basic flight training. Tuskegee Field, Alabama was exclusively for black air cadets, who received their basic and single-engine advanced training by black Army
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Flight Schools in the Southeastern United States. Graduates of the advanced schools were commissioned as Second Lieutenants, receiving their "wings". Most of the assigned schools provided phase III advanced single-engine flying training for Air Cadets, from which the graduates would attend
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The command also operated several specialized schools at Jackson, Tuskegee, Spence and Clewiston. Jackson Army Air Base was the home of the Royal Netherlands Flight Academy, which trained pilots for their air force. It also had a two-engine school for
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Aircraft carried fuselage code "CR" Also trained Free French Air Force cadets; Advanced school closed at the end of World War II; remained open after World War II as Craig Air Force Base, closed 1977
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Replacement Training schools operated by one of the numbered air forces in single-engine fighters. From there they would be deployed overseas to the combat theaters as replacement pilots.
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Aircraft carried fuselage code "MA" Became A-26 Invader transition school, September 1944 closed October 1945; re-opened as Graham Air Base, 1953, closed 1961
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Tuskegee had Basic and Advanced Flying Schools for African American flight cadets. Primary flight training was conducted at nearby
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As training requirements changed during the war, schools were activated and inactivated or transferred to meet those requirements.
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In 1945 Basic training was transferred from Cochran (BT-13) to Spence (AT-6); Re-opened as Spence Air Base, 1951–1961
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28th Flying Training Wing, lineage and history document Air Force Historical Agency, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
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Aircraft carried fuselage code "N" Trained RAF and Mexican Air Force cadets
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Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command, 15 Sep 1943 – 30 Dec 1945
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AAF Pilot School (Advanced Single Engine), two-engine transition school
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Locations of airfields controlled by the 28th Flying Training Wing
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Army Air Forces Southeast Training Center, 26 December 1942
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Opened: January 1941, Closed: December 1945 (BT-13, AT-6)
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History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002
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Craig Field, Alabama, 15 August 1943 – 30 December 1945.
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Opened: April 1943, Closed: September 1945 (PT-17, AT-6)
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instructors after graduating from the primary school at
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There is no lineage between the United States Air Force
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Opened: April 1943, Closed: November 1945 (BT-13, AT-6)
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Opened: May 1941, Closed: September 1946 (BT-13, AT-6)
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Texan. The contract primary school at Clewiston flew
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The advanced trainer operated by the schools was the
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1945
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Training wings of the United States Army Air Forces
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Opened: January 1942, Closed: September 1944 (AT-6)
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28th Flying Training Wing (World War II)

United States
United States Army Air Forces
Eastern Flying Training Command
World War II

United States Army Air Forces
Eastern Flying Training Command
Craig Field
28th Bomb Wing
Rapid City Army Air Base
Eastern Flying Training Command
B-25 Mitchell
Moton Field
Tuskegee Institute
North American AT-6
Boeing-Stearman PT-17s
Vultee BT-13
Craig Field
Selma, Alabama
Jackson Army Airbase
Marianna Army Airfield
Napier Army Airfield
Riddle Field
Spence Army Airfield
Tuskegee Army Airfield
Moton Field
PT-17 Stearmans
AT-6 Texans

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