Indiana World War II Army Airfields

Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy datesTemplate:Infobox military structure 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. However the other USAAF support commands—Air Technical Service Command (ATSC); Air Transport Command (ATC) or Troop Carrier Command—also commanded a significant number of airfields in support roles.

It is still possible to find remnants of these wartime airfields. Many were converted into municipal airports, some were returned to agriculture, and several were retained as United States Air Force installations and were front-line bases during the Cold War. Hundreds of the temporary buildings that were used survive today and are being used for other purposes.

Major airfields

Troop Carrier Command

• Baer Army Air Base, Fort Wayne

I Troop Carrier Group

45th Army Air Force Base Unit

Now: File:Roundel of the USAF.svg Fort Wayne Air National Guard Station (Template:Comma separated entries)

• Stout Army Air Field, Indianapolis

Headquarters, Troop Carrier Command, Glider Ferrying & Pickup facility

I Troop Carrier Group

362d Army Air Force Base Unit

Used by Indiana Air National Guard until 1961. Now closed and part of urbanized Indianapolis area

Air Transport Command

• Bendix Field AAF, South Bend

Now: South Bend International Airport (Template:Comma separated entries)

Air Technical Service Command

• Evansville MAP, Evansville

Now: Evansville Regional Airport (Template:Comma separated entries)

• Freeman Army Airfield, Seymour

Southeast Training Center

447th Army Air Force Base Unit

Now: Freeman Municipal Airport (Template:Comma separated entries)

Army Air Force Training Command

• Atterbury Army Airfield, Columbus

Sub-base of George AAF, Illinois (now: Lawrenceville-Vincennes International Airport (Template:Comma separated entries))

304th Army Air Force Base Unit

Now: Columbus Municipal Airport (Template:Comma separated entries)

Other

• Note: File:Roundel of the USAF.svg Bunker Hill Air Force Base / later Grissom Air Force Base, now Grissom Air Reserve Base, was a United States Navy airfield known as Naval Air Station Bunker Hill during World War II.