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Harlingen AAF had a Waller Gunnery Trainer for firing at "planes projected on a screen", [1]: 26 and B-29 Flexible Gunnery Training at Buckingham, Harlingen, and Las Vegas included the "manipulation trainer". The manipulation trainer used 12 towers at heights of 10–40 feet (3.0–12.2 m) and arranged like a B-29 formation.
An auxiliary airfield was built at Port Isabel, Texas to support training and flight operations at Harlingen. Training was conducted in air-to-air & air-to-surface gunnery; air-to-air training used a variety of aircraft, including AT-6 Texans, BT-13 Valiants, P-63 Kingcobras, B-17 Flying Fortresses, B-26 Marauder [5] and B-24 Liberators. For ...
Harlingen Army Airfield, Harlingen, Texas AAF Gunnery School (Flexible) 93d Flexible Gunnery Training Group Opened: January 1942, closed: February 1946 (AT-6, AT-11, AT-18, B-24, RP-39Q) [3] Used modified AT-6s (later RP-39Qs) as air gunnery targets; closed February 1946; reopened as Harlingen Air Force Base, 1950; closed 1962
79th Flying Training Wing (Gunnery) Headquarters: Harlingen Army Airfield, Texas, 25 August 1943 Maxwell Field, ... Gunnery training schools flew A-33, AT-6s, AT-1s ...
Bombardier Training; Nine locations in Central and Western Flying Training Commands provided bombardier training. [1] Flexible Gunnery Training; At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Army Air Corps still did not have a specialized school for flexible gunnery. Three schools opened in December 1941, and the program grew rapidly.
Jun. 7—HARLINGEN — The Harlingen school district regularly trains its school resource officers to handle active shooter situations. However, it stands ready and eager to carry out any new ...
The city's Economic Development Corporation is rolling out its new Equip Harlingen program, offering grants of as much as $3,000 to help businesses buy equipment ranging from production machines ...
The U.S. Army Air Corps Training Center (USAACTC) was at Duncan Field, San Antonio, Texas, from 1926 to 1931 and Randolph Field from 1931 to 1939. Two more centers were activated on 8 July 1940: the West Coast Army Air Corps Training Center (WCAACTC) in Sunnyvale, California, and the Southeast Army Air Corps Training Center (SAACTC) in Montgomery, Alabama.