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the command was selected at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Further decentralization was achieved by grouping the technical schools into two districts. In a functional arrangement which placed basic military and aviation mechanic training under one command and remaining specialties under another, the first district included Scott Field, Lowry Field, and Fort Logan; the second district was composed of
Chanute Field, Keesler Field, Sheppard Field, and Jefferson Barracks.
226:, Texas, both activated in 1941 with a mission of technical training. Also, because technical schools did not require flying facilities, the Army Air Forces took over a total of 452 hotels, as well as warehouses, theaters, convention halls, athletic fields, parking lots, and various other structures to accommodate student classroom space. The number of hotels at the peak of training included 337 in
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215:. With the expansion of the Air Corps after May 1940, technical training was expanded rapidly. By early November 1941, students were entering technical training at the rate of 110,000 per year, and after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the student flow rose sharply: 13,000 men entered technical training schools in January 1942 and 55,000 in December 1942.
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decided that the country could only afford a 48-group Air Force. With only a minimum of operating funds available, the
Secretary of Defense directed major spending cuts throughout the Department of Defense (DOD). In a re-organization, Technical Division, Air Training Command was inactivated on 14
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Boca Raton Field was severely damaged by several hurricanes in the fall of 1947. It had already been targeted for closure, but the hurricanes accelerated the move of what could be salvaged of its facilities to
Keesler. It took Keesler personnel several weeks to dry out and repair radar equipment.
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Technical training in the Air
Service began about the same time as pilot training. In order to keep its airplanes operational, there was a need for skilled mechanics and other technicians. At first, men who already possessed some mechanical experience received training at civilian trade schools
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The heavy burden of the greatly expanded program for technical training had forced the Air Corps to establish the Air Corps
Technical Training Command on 1 March 1941. Temporary headquarters for the new command was established at Chanute Field on 26 March; In September a permanent headquarters for
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Requirements in the combat theaters for graduates of technical training schools and even pilots proved to be smaller than initially expected, so the Army Air Forces reduced the size of these training programs in
January 1944. The Central Technical Training Command in St. Louis was discontinued 1
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March 1944. All schools previously in the central command, with the exception of
Keesler Field, became part of the eastern command. Keesler went to the western command. Simultaneously, the headquarters of Eastern Technical Training Command moved from Greensboro, North Carolina, to St Louis.
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On 31 July 1943, the Army Air Forces reorganized AAF Training
Command with the establishment of subordinate commands, three for flying training and three for technical training. The five districts that had belonged to Technical Training Command were disbanded and realigned.
460:
Austere postwar military budgets led to additional consolidations and all of the technical programs suffered from shortages of instructors—problems that existed been with the schools throughout the postwar era. The last half of 1949 was an exercise in austerity. President
253:
This organization was abandoned on 1 November 1941 when Air Corps
Technical Training Command revised the two districts and announced that four technical training districts would be established on a geographical basis to manage the expansion. These were:
203:, Illinois, came under the Air Corps Technical School when the Department of Basic Instruction, responsible for the basic training of all new recruits, was established at Scott. It moved to Chanute in 1940 when Scott became the Air Corps Radio school.
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With the end of the war in
September 1945, on 15 October Training Command delegated all stations and activities of the Western Technical Training Command to the jurisdiction of the Eastern Technical Training Command, which it re-designated as
172:, the school at Kelly Field had trained over 2,000 more mechanics. Though the school in St Paul closed after the end of the war, Kelly remained in operation and trained some 5,000 more mechanics before January 1921. When the supply depot at
448:. Also, the training schools at the bases which remained open were consolidated into the Army Air Forces (later Air Force) base units. After the establishment of the United States Air Force in September 1947 and the implementation of the
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in 1948, the Base Units were discontinued, and ATC established new Technical Training Wings at each base. This new plan made the training organizations uniform with the other major commands throughout the Air Force.
331:. Its headquarters was moved to Scott Field, Illinois. Most training schools were closed as part of the demobilization of the armed forces. Technical Training Command retained seven bases as training schools:
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188:, Oklahoma, both joined the mechanics course at Chanute, congregating all technical training in the Air Service at that location. The facility at Chanute was re-designated as the
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In 1930, two more Departments were established at Chanute, the Department of Clerical Instruction and the Department of Armament. Technical training expanded in 1938 at
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November 1949 when Air Training Command absorbed its subordinate Divisions into its command organization to comply with the budget reduction directive.
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The Third District at Tulsa, Oklahoma was divided between WTTC and CTTC. The Fifth District in Miami Beach was absorbed into the ETTC.
199:, Colorado, when the Photography, Armament and Clerical instruction were moved from Chanute to the new facilities in Denver. In 1939,
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To accommodate this rapid growth in students, additional installations were established. New technical training bases included
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On 1 June 1939, the Air Corps Technical School at Chanute Field was elevated to the Command level, being re-designated as
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and state universities. Problems arose and the expense led the Army to set up two mechanic schools, one at
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First District at Greensboro was replaced by the Eastern Technical Training Command
288:, was created to supervise the numerous technical training activities in Florida.
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As a result, the radar school didn't open at its new location until early 1948.
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Intelligence Technical School; Aviation Cadet School; Radio Technical School,
180:, Illinois. In 1922, the school was expanded when the photography school at
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Placed on inactive status 10 July 1946; later became a sub-field of Lowry AFB
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3704th Army Air Forces Base Unit (Technical School and Basic Training Center)
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766:. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas
750:. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas
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3701st Army Air Forces Base Unit (Technical School, Basic Training Center)
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Later, in November 1942, a Fifth Training District with headquarters at
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Radio Mechanics/Radio Operation Technical School, Scott Field, Illinois
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Aircraft Mechanics/Weapons Technical School; Basic Training Center #2,
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in 1926, with the former separate schools becoming "Departments".
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Weapons/Photography Technical School; Basic Training Center #9,
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513:(later Air Training Command), 31 August 1943 – 14 November 1949
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Radio Mechanics/Aircraft Radio Maintenance Technical School,
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Aircraft Mechanics Technical School; Basic Training Center,
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3501st Army Air Forces Base Unit (Technical School, Radar)
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Scott Field, Illinois, 15 October 1945 – 14 November 1949
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History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002
748:
History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002
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Training commands of the United States Army Air Forces
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576:, Florida (moved to Lincoln AAF Nebraska, WTTC, 1943)
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1949
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Basic Training Center #4; Officer Candidate School,
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3705th Army Air Forces Base Unit (Technical School)
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3505th Army Air Forces Base Unit (Technical School)
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47:, Mississippi performing a general inspection of a
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636:Radio Mechanics/Radio Operation Technical School,
629:Radio Mechanics/Radio Operation Technical School,
444:, Technical Training Command was re-designated as
412:3702d Army Air Forces Base Unit (Technical School)
358:3502d Army Air Forces Base Unit (Technical School)
971:Military units and formations established in 1946
555:, Mississippi (Reassigned to WTTC, 1 March 1944)
299:Second District in St Louis was replaced by the
306:Fourth District in Denver was replaced by the
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184:, Virginia, and the communications school at
8:
161:, Texas and another in a large building in
143:. It was inactivated on 14 November 1949.
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590:Added 1 March 1944 when consolidated with
488:Army Air Forces Technical Training Command
440:On 1 July 1946, with the establishment to
976:Divisions of the United States Air Force
495:Technical Division, Air Training Command
446:Technical Division, Air Training Command
125:Technical Division, Air Training Command
32:Technical Division, Air Training Command
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741:Air Force Historical Research Agency
631:Tomah Army Airfield Technical School
537:Basic Training Center #10; HQ ETTC,
277:Fourth Technical Training District,
265:Second Technical Training District,
213:Air Corps Technical Training Command
271:Third Technical Training District,
258:First Technical Training District,
165:that the War Department took over.
104:Command of technical training units
991:1949 disestablishments in Illinois
923:Western Technical Training Command
918:Central Technical Training Command
913:Eastern Technical Training Command
605:Aircraft Engine Technical School,
592:Central Technical Training Command
477:Eastern Technical Training Command
308:Western Technical Training Command
301:Central Technical Training Command
25:
18:Eastern Technical Training Command
656:St. Louis, Missouri, 1 March 1944
653:, North Carolina, 1 November 1941
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986:1946 establishments in Illinois
848:Western Flying Training Command
843:Central Flying Training Command
838:Eastern Flying Training Command
500:Inactivated on 14 November 1949
574:St. Petersburg Training Center
402:3415th Technical Training Wing
374:3380th Technical Training Wing
361:3345th Technical Training Wing
348:3310th Technical Training Wing
43:Aircraft Mechanic Students at
1:
525:Atlantic City Training Center
387:School inactivated 5 May 1947
131:unit. It was assigned to the
762:Manning, Thomas A. (2005),
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560:Miami Beach Training Center
483:Activated on 31 August 1943
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624:Sioux Falls Army Air Field
612:Basic Training Center #1,
572:Basic Training Center #6,
539:Greensboro Training Center
523:Basic Training Center #7,
366:Keesler Field, Mississippi
329:Technical Training Command
207:Technical Training Command
190:Air Corps Technical School
113:Air Force Training Command
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379:Boca Raton Field, Florida
236:Atlantic City, New Jersey
36:
532:Boca Raton Army Airfield
530:RADAR Technical School,
51:ground training aircraft
407:Buckley Field, Colorado
353:Chanute Field, Illinois
232:St. Petersburg, Florida
129:United States Air Force
95:United States Air Force
737:public domain material
585:New Haven, Connecticut
420:Amarillo Field, Texas.
244:Grand Rapids, Michigan
567:Seymour Johnson Field
450:Hobson Wing-Base plan
394:Lowry Field, Colorado
340:Scott Field, Illinois
607:Stout Army Air Field
442:Air Training Command
286:Miami Beach, Florida
228:Miami Beach, Florida
137:Scott Air Force Base
133:Air Training Command
857:Specialized schools
475:Constituted as the
267:St. Louis, Missouri
222:, Mississippi, and
49:Bell P-39 Airacobra
906:Technical training
614:Jefferson Barracks
490:on 15 October 1945
163:St Paul, Minnesota
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638:Truax Field
633:, Wisconsin
505:Assignments
322:Postwar era
238:; three in
201:Scott Field
197:Lowry Field
170:World War I
159:Kelly Field
960:Categories
864:Bombardier
664:References
616:, Missouri
602:, Illinois
174:Love Field
884:Navigator
609:, Indiana
562:, Florida
534:, Florida
186:Fort Sill
60:1943–1949
950:Aviation
776:29991467
772:71006954
760:29991467
756:71006954
719:Manning
645:Stations
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141:Illinois
879:Gunnery
518:Schools
470:Lineage
168:During
152:Origins
147:History
65:Country
936:Portal
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303:(CTTC)
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768:OCLC
752:OCLC
123:The
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