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Indiana World War II Army Airfields

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.

Major airfields
Troop Carrier CommandBaer Army Air Base, Fort Wayne : I Troop Carrier Group : 45th Army Air Force Base Unit : Now: Fort Wayne Air National Guard StationStout 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 Air Technical Service Command • Evansville MAP, Evansville : Now: Evansville Regional AirportFreeman Army Airfield, Seymour : Southeast Training Center : 447th Army Air Force Base Unit : Now: Freeman Municipal Airport Army Air Force Training CommandAtterbury Army Airfield, Columbus : Sub-base of George AAF, Illinois (now: Lawrenceville-Vincennes International Airport ) : 304th Army Air Force Base Unit : Now: Columbus Municipal Airport Other • Note: 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. ==References==
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