http://forum.armyairforces.com/(c) ArmyAirForces30Hi All, It looks like the pool party was at Williams and probably for the last B-17 Pilot Transition School class. Lou Thole in “Forgotten Fields of America” Vol. III says that in April ‘45 Williams change to a new mission of a Radhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163614Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:55:10 GMTI had the opportunity to pay a quick visit to the WWII headquarters of the Army Air Forces Training Command; the Texas & Pacific Railway Building in Forth Worth, TX. I had noticed it mentioned as the HQ in a station book from Frederick Army Airhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163610Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:02:36 GMTAnother good book to download and read is "Training to Fly: Military Flight Training, 1907 to 1945," by Rebecca Hancock Cameron, 677 pages. The book is available as a single PDF document from AFHSO (U.S. Air Force Historical Studies Office), http:/http://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163607Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:42:21 GMTThe AAF studies will give an excellent macro view of training organization. If I understand your question though, you are asking whether there was a parallel to combat squadron and group organization at the base level. A quick summary of howhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163598Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:35:56 GMTAnother thread in this same forum would indicate it is Williams Field http://forum.armyairforces.com/ZI-field-buzz-numbersletters-m161605.aspxhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163590Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:35:41 GMTBill, Just to add to the fun, 2AF used the letter "Y" for a time. Bruning AAF training B-24s carried the Y and two digit ship numbers, and when the station mission changed from bomber to fighter training the P-47s initally assigned also carried a Yhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163552Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:27:46 GMTTo all you good looking flyboys, Where is this field at? http://images.google.com/hhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163521Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:33:03 GMT Hi, just a general question on Flight Training Command during WWII; how was it organized? Was it divided into groups and squadrons as Operational bombers and fighters? Can you recommend some literature on this particular subject?http://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163338Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:08:29 GMTHello Miguel. Click on the link below to go to AFHRA Numbered Historical Studies. Study Number 53 is "Organization of AAF Training Activities 1939-1945. You may check out some of the other studies pertaining to training if interestedhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163334Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:14:56 GMTHi, just a general question on Flight Training Command during WWII; how was it organized? Was it divided into groups and squadrons as Operational bombers and fighters? Can you recommend some literature on this particular subject? Best regardshttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163327Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:46:45 GMTThank you VERY much for your reply! It was much better and much sooner than I could have imagined. Gratefully, Paulhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163273Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:04:55 GMTHello Paul. There are several different listings for Intelligence Officer in AAF Manual 35-0-1 Revised through July 1945 MOS 9300 Military Intelligence Officer MOS 9301 Intelligence Staff Officer (Combat) MOS 93http://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163265Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:48:26 GMTI am doing research for a book and I need to find out what the duties and responsibilities of an Army Air Force Intelligence Officer would have been. I don't know if they vary from command to command but I am specifically looking for one in a bomb group.http://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163255Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:39:49 GMTHave you tried searching on this site? http://ww2troopships.com/crossings.htm http://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163135Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:18:51 GMT Thank you for posting the this information, is a great help to me. Tom, The City of Hobbs recently hired a company to do a historical survey of the Hobbs Army Air Field, and they preparedhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163044Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:45:11 GMTMark, Thank you for posting the this information, is a great help to me. The interesting thing about this information is that it shows the base in transition from a advance two engine school and bombardier school to a B-17 pilot trahttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163042Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:04:32 GMTThis AT-6 and B-26 I don’t know the field where they are from. Does anyone know? Since Laredo and Harlingen are under Eastern Flying Training Command, and Fort Worth is under Central Flying Training Command this system might be a order from Flhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163036Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:13:21 GMTAt the Flexible Gunnery School at Harlingen, TX a B-26 or a AT-23 tow ship and a B-24.http://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163035Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:09:32 GMTSo, I think because of the following examples, there is a infix field code buzz number system of: #X##, first number is the assign to the BU squadron, second letter is the assign BU field letter, next two numbers are the assign plane on base number. Hehttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163034Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:07:29 GMTHi All, For years I though that the buzz number on the TB-32’s at transition school at Fort Worth AAF, TX was a prefix letters of OM##. Then I found the Walnut Ridge web site with some great photos of the RFC storage with B-32’s with buzz numbers 4M##.http://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163033Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:05:33 GMT