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Mitchel Air Force Base, also known as Mitchel Field, was a United States Air Force base located on the Hempstead Plains of Long Island, New York, United States.Established in 1918 as Hazelhurst Aviation Field #2, the facility was renamed later that year as Mitchel Field in honor of former New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, who was killed while training for the Air Service in Louisiana.
Enrich Glaser was a soldier based at Mitchel Field in Long Island, New York, and Otto Voss was an airplane mechanic. [2] Rumrich stated Hoffman served as a go-between on the Europa to convey messages between his contact person in Germany, Karl Schlueter, and himself and the other spies in America. [1]
In 1938 Camp Mills was ... the Air Service Depot from October 1918 to April 1919 when it was consolidated with Hazelhurst Field and made part of Mitchel Field on 5 ...
After receiving his pilot wings, Mason was stationed at Mitchel Field in New York, where he flew bombers from October 1938 to October 1939. He served in the reserves until April 29, 1940, when he was assigned to 35th Pursuit Squadron of the 8th Pursuit Group in Langley Field in Virginia, where he flew the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. [5]
Douglas B-18A Bolo, 37-468, of the 99th Bomb Squadron, [134] on a flight from Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, New York, to Maxwell Field, Alabama, crashes 7 miles NE of Lagrange, Georgia, in a night accident in rainy weather that blanketed most of the Southeast. Five of six crew, and two military passengers, were killed when the plane ...
Mitchel Field, New York, c. 5–15 April 1919; Langley Field, Virginia, 1 September 1933 – 31 January 1938; Barksdale Field, Louisiana, 1 February 1940; Lowry Field, Colorado, 10 July 1940; Pendleton Field, Oregon, 29 June 1941; Lexington County Airport (later Columbia Army Air Base), South Carolina, 16 February 1942
He then went to Mitchel Field, New York, where he attended the Group Navigation School. He remained there as operations officer of the 9th Bombardment Group until 8 September 1938, when he left to attend the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He returned to the 9th Bombardment squadron on ...
Craw commanded the 19th PS from August 4, 1932, to the end of his tour and returned to Mitchel Field on September 15, 1934. He was promoted to captain on April 20, 1935. In September 1937, Craw was assigned as a student to the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama, graduating June 20, 1938.