Greenville Flyers
THE LEGACY OF ALLIED PILOTS WHO FLEW AT GREENVILLE ARMY AIRFIELD
GREENVILLE IN WORLD WAR II Greenville Army Airfield, Greenville, Mississippi. |
In a little more than a years time, George "Jug" Metcalf's cotton field was transformed into one of the nation's larger flying training bases. Greenville Army Airfield was established in December 1941 and served as a Basic Flying Training school within the Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command for nearly the entire duration of WWII.
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Basic Flying Training was the second of three phases of flying training conducted by the Army Air Corps/Air Forces during World War II.
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During this ten week phase, students learned to fly by instrument, fly at night, fly in formation, and fly cross-country in the Vultee BT-13/BT-15*.
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