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Indiana Historical Society. 2003-01-27; Ray Boomhower, "Nobody Wanted Us: Black Aviators at Freeman Field", Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History (Indiana Historical Society) (Summer 1993), pp. 38–45. Charles E. Francis and Adolph Caso, The Tuskegee Airmen: The Men Who Changed a Nation Branden Books, 1997, Chapter 20.
In January 1941 the U.S. War Department issued orders to consider potential sites for a new U.S. Army training center in Indiana.After the Hurd Engineering Company surveyed an estimated 50,000 acres (200 km 2), an area was selected for the camp in south-central Indiana, approximately 30 miles (48 km) south of Indianapolis, 12 miles (19 km) north of Columbus, and 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Edinburgh.
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Indiana for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers.. Most of these airfields were under the command of the First Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC), a predecessor of the current Air Education and Training Command of the United States Air Force.
A native of Indiana [1] and 1930 graduate of West Point. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross ,the Mackay Trophy , and was also one of the pioneers of the Army Air Mail Service. Captain Freeman was killed on 6 February 1941 in the crash of a B-17 Flying Fortress (B-17B 38-216) near Lovelock, Nevada while en route to Wright Field , Ohio.
Fort Benjamin Harrison saw its highest levels of activity during World War I and World War II. The Fort Benjamin Harrison Reception Center (for inducting draftees) opened in 1941 and by 1943 was the largest reception center in the United States. [4]
The Indiana Army Ammunition Plant was an Army manufacturing plant built in 1941 between Charlestown and Jeffersonville, Indiana. It consisted of three areas within two separate but attached manufacturing plants: Indiana Ordnance Works Plant 1 (IOW#1): (3,564.71 acres) made smokeless powder
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