For the civilian airport use, see Buckingham Field.
Buckingham Army Airfield
Part of Army Air Forces Training Command
Fort Myers, Florida
Buckingham Army Airfield, Florida – 1944
Buckingham AAF
Coordinates
26°38′36″N81°42′37″W / 26.64333°N 81.71028°W / 26.64333; -81.71028 (Buckingham Army Airfield)
Site history
Built
1942
Built by
United States Air Force
In use
1942–1945
Battles/wars
World War II
Buckingham Army Airfield is an inactive United States Army Air Forces base, approximately 10 miles east of Fort Myers, Florida. It was active during World War II as an Army Air Forces Training Command airfield. It was closed on 30 September 1945, prior to the establishment of the United States Air Force as an independent service two years later in 1947. Part of the airfield is now in the Wild Turkey Strand Preserve.[1]
Buckingham Army Airfield was a training base, established in 1942 under AAF Eastern Flying Training Command, and when active, was the largest airfield in the State of Florida.
Besides the gunnery students, Buckingham AAF was also the primary training center for gunnery instructors at the Army's other flexible gunnery schools, the term meaning that the aerial gunner had a flexible mount at the station or in the turret of the aircraft, rather than the fixed aerial gun of fighter aircraft.
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