Army Air Forces Bombardier School

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Bombardier School
Carlsbad Army Airfield with Bugs Bunny
TypeUnited States Army Air Forces facility
the Evil Queen from Disney's Snow White. The school was moved from Hobbs Army Airfield,[1]
the 1st class graduated March 6, 1943; & Deming had 7 "Bombardier Training Squadrons": 966th, 971st, 972nd, & 974-7th.

A Bombardier School was a

AT-11 Kansan.[citation needed] With the Bradley Plan increase in Eighth Air Force aircrews needed for the Combined Bomber Offensive,[3] the 17 Army Air Forces Bombardier Schools graduated 47,236.[1]

History

A July 1941 attempt at establishing a bombardier school at

Davis-Monthan Field, Arizona.[4]

Bombardier schools of the

Kirtland Field, New Mexico).[citation needed
]

The GCACTC's Advanced Twin Engine and Bombardier Training Center at

Albuquerque[9] was depicted in the 1943 Bombardier film. The first graduates with dual ratings as Navigator/Bombardier were in April 1944.[2]

In addition to visual bomb scoring and

Fort Worth" Army Airfield.[10] RBS detachments in the Army Air Force were later "established at Denver, Chicago, Omaha, Albuquerque").[10]

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References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9781563113383. Fifty instructors arrived [at Barksdale] from the first three classes at Lowry Field, in February 1941. These instructors were distributed among three 'section' of cadre who were to be sent the Training Centers, each section to establish a bombardier school. Between 1 May and 29 November 1941 a total of 140 bombardiers were graduated in four classes from Barksdale, with the rating of "Aerial Bombardiers, Third Class." … Following graduation of the last class, the entire school was moved to Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Volume I)"Barksdale". Archived from the original
    on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
  2. ^ a b Zack, Milton. Milt's Military Memoirs: Part II (Report). Tempelhof.geo. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  3. ^ Ramsey, John F. The War Against the Luftwaffe: AAF Counter-Air Operations, April 1943 – June 1944 (PDF). USAF Historical Studies (Report). Air Force Historical Research Agency. p. 84. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
  4. ^ a b "Bombardier Training: …Overview". Ancestry.com. Archived from the original (transcribed text from various sources, including St. John) on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  5. OCLC 9828710
    .
  6. ^ "Hangar 25 Air Museum". Archived from the original on 26 July 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
  7. ^
    San Angelo (1942), and Childress
    (1943), and were instrumental in developing photographic and sonic methods of scoring bomb hits and analyzing bombing proficiency
  8. ^ "General John Dale Ryan" (official biography). Inside AF.mil. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
  9. ^ [specify]Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
  10. ^
    tbd (9 November 1983). Historical Summary: Radar Bomb Scoring, 1945–1983 (PDF) (Report). Office of History, 1st Combat Evaluation Group. Retrieved 21 May 2012. {{cite report}}: |author= has generic name (help
    )
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