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Walker Army Airfield (Kansas) Wichita Army Air Field This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 14:08 (UTC). Text ...
One of three B-29 training bases in Kansas for the 58th Bombardment Wing, the first B-29 combat unit of World War II. Major Strategic Air Command base during the early Cold War Era (1951–1965). Now Salina Regional Airport (SLN).
The Florence Town Company was formed on December 1, 1870 with Samuel J. Crawford as the president. [12] Previously, Crawford was the 3rd Governor of Kansas from 1865 to 1868. He named the town, Florence, in honor of his daughter, Miss Florence Crawford of Topeka. [5] [13] [14] The post office moved from Doyle to Florence on March 13, 1871. [10]
The Army airfield eventually became the Great Bend Municipal Airport. [27] Herington Army Airfield, Herington, Kansas. This airfield, 8 miles (13 km) east of Herington, was built to be a staging area to prepare airplanes, supplies and personnel prior to their deployment to war zones. Construction of the field began in September 1942.
The airport was originally known as Florence Army Airfield, or more simply as Florence Field, [1] a World War II U.S. Army Air Corps / U.S. Army Air Forces training field for P-39 Airacobra and P-40 Warhawk pursuit aircraft and A-20 Havoc and A-26 Invader attack aircraft.
Campo di Marte thus became Florence's first airport, and remained so throughout the 1920s. However, the field was soon surrounded by houses and was inadequate for the new aircraft that were then replacing the first canvas-covered craft. In 1928, a location on the plain between Florence and Sesto Fiorentino was chosen. Peretola Airport opened ...
The airfield was named Strother Field, named after Captain Donald Root Strother, who was killed over Java on 13 February 1942 while serving with the 7th Bombardment Group in the Dutch East Indies Campaign commanding a squadron of B-17 Flying Fortresses. He was the first Army Air Force pilot from Cowley County to be killed in World War II. [1]
During World War II the United States Army Air Forces' Third Air Force used the airport as a training base and added 1,400 acres (570 ha). Known as Florence Army Airfield, the 52d Pursuit Group was assigned to the airfield on 18 February 1942 and trained with P-39 Airacobra and P-40 Warhawks until departing on 27 April for Wilmington, North ...