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208 TEXAS ALMANAC.-1943-1944.
Air Force base in the United States. In
command as of April 1, 1943, was Major
Gen. Barton K. Yount.
In the fall of 1938, the United States
Army Air Force was graduating between
300 and 500 pilots annually, and all of
them were trained in Texas. Only Ran-
dolph Field, the "West Point of the Air,"
and its sister, Kelly Field, were used.
Now both have been shuttled around in
the vast reorganization and Randolph
Field is used as an instructor's base.
Texas no longer has the monopoly on
Army air training, but it definitely is the
hub of all activities.
Early in 1943, three years after the
Army's two schools turned out a maxi-
mum of 500 pilots annually, it was possi-
ble to attend a graduating class at a
single Texas field and see graduates
covering ten acres of ground.
To look back at air power in its in-
fancy, there were only fourteen fields in
the United States in 1914 at the start of
World War I. Six of those were in Texas.
Latest United States Army Air Force
program for pilot training, that was re-
easable for publication-in 1940-was a
goal of 30,000 pilots annually. Undoubt-
edly it has climbed far past that figure.
Military restrictions limit the number
.of air installations in Texas that can be
named and the purposes of all fields, but
this partial list is privileged:
AAFT School-Amarillo.
Delvalle School-Austin.
Fifth Ferrying Division, Air Transport
,Command-Dallas.
Hensley Field-Dallas.
Army Air Field-Eagle Pass.
Iiggs Field-El Paso.
Tarrant Field (combat crew school)-Fort
Worth.
Army Gunnery School-Harllngen.
Army Navigation School-Hondo.
Army Gunnery School-Laredo.
Pyote Army Air Base-Pyote
Army Navigation School-San Marcos.
Stinson Field-San Antonio.
Pilot Replacement Center-San Antonio.
Sheppard Field Technical Training School-
Wichita Falls.
Advanced Flying Fields.
Ellington Field-Houston.
Lubbock Army Air Field-Lubbock.
Marfa Army Air Field-Marfa.
Moore Field-Mission.
Pampa Army Air Field-Pampa.
Brooks Field-San Antonio.
Foster Field-Victoria.
Blackland Army Air Field-Waco.
Basic Flying Schools.
Waco Army Air Field-Waco.
Pecos Army Air Field-Pecos.
Goodfellow Field-San Angelo.
Perrin Field-Sherman.
majors Field--Greenville.
Bombardment Schools.
Big Spring Army Air Field-Big Spring.
Childress Army Air Field-Childress.
Del Rio Army Air Field-Del Rio.
Midland Army Air Field-Midland.
San Angelo Army Air Field-San Angelo.
Aloe Field-Victoria.
Flying Training Detachment.
IBnuce Field-Ballinger.
.Jines Field-Bonham.
,Cutis Field-Brady.
IBata n Field-Bryan.
o.keman Field-Coleman.
4AirA6ctivities of Texas-Corslcana.
JMlnicjpal Airport-Cuero.Dallas Aviation School-Dallas.
Hicks Field-Fort Worth.
Fort Stockton Field-Fort Stockton.
Howard Hughes Airport-Houston.
Arledge Field-Stamford.
Sweetwater Field-Sweetwater.
Garner Field-Uvalde.
Victory Field-Vernon.
Glider Training.
Dalhart Field-Dalhart.
Denton Field-Denton.
Hamilton Field-Hamilton.
Lamesa Field-Lamesa.
Plainview Field-Plainview.
The Third Army.
Tactical in nature, responsible for the
training of troops in combat, the Third
Army is a vital part of Texas and the
Southwest. Part of the Army Ground
Forces, the Third Army Command trains
troops stationed throughout the South
and Southwest, from Florida to Arizona.
The Third Army long was only a paper
organization, but it was activated with a
limited staff at Fort Sam Houston in
1932. For several years the staff was en-
gaged in formulating plans for mobiliza-
tion and training. In 1938, the headquar-
ters moved to Atlanta, Ga., but in 1940
was shifted back to San Antonio.
The present Third Army is vastly dif-
ferent from that of the same designation
which participated in World War I and
formed part of the Army of Occupation
after the conflict. In 1941, the Third
Army alone had more than double the
commissioned and enlisted strength of
the entire United States Army of a few
years ago.
Outstanding was the achievement of
the Third Army in the summer maneu-
vers of 1941. In the largest peacetime
field exercises the nation had ever seen,
before or since, the Third Army contest-
ed the Second Army. Over a half million
men took part in the maneuvers. Out of
the maneuvers came the Third Army
Junior Officers Training Center at Camp
Bullis near San Antonio, a center de-
signed to toughen young officers for
warfare.
Fanned out over the South, the Third
Army has the following large units in
Texas training:
Fort Bliss, El Paso. (1st Cavalry Division.)
Fort Mcintosh, Laredo. (56th Cavalry Bri-
gade.)
Fort Clark, Brackettvllle. (5th Cavalry
Brigade.)
Camp Barkeley, Abilene. (90th Motorized
Division.)
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio. (95th In-
fantry Division.)
Camp Howze, Gainesville. (84th Infantry
Division.)
Camp Maxey, Paris. (102nd Infantry Divi-
sion.)
Fort Clark, Brackettvllle. (2nd Cavalry
Division.)
Camp Swift, Bastrop (97th Infantry Divi-
sion.)
Many smaller units are stationed at
other Texas points. Other Third Army
units extend from Camp Carson in Colo-
rado Springs to Camp Shelby in Missis-
sippi.
The VIII Corps, a Third Army unit, is
headquartered at Brownwood, one of the
large tactical organizations directly under
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