Air Service, United States Army United States Army Air Forces
Condition
DeSoto County Juvenile Correctional Complex
Site history
Built
1917
In use
1917–1945
Battles/wars
World War I World War II
Garrison information
Garrison
Training Section, Air Service (World War I) Army Air Force Training Command (World War I)
Carlstrom Field, Florida, World War I photograph, 1918Carlstrom Field, Florida, World War II, note the PT-17 Stearmans on the flight line and the rebuilt hangars and ground station.
Carlstrom Field is a former military airfield, located 6.4 miles (10.3 km) southeast of Arcadia, Florida. The airfield was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established in 1917 after the United States entry into World War I.[1]
^William R. Evinger: Directory of Military Bases in the U.S., Oryx Press, Phoenix, Ariz., 1991, p. 147.
CarlstromField is a former military airfield, located 6.4 miles (10.3 km) southeast of Arcadia, Florida. The airfield was one of thirty-two Air Service...
transferred from Carlstrom, and the first trainees began to arrive. Dorr Field initially acted as an overflow training field for Carlstrom, equipped with...
March 1918, transferred to CarlstromField, Florida 108th Aero Squadron (II), Formed March 1918, transferred to CarlstromField, Florida 109th Aero Squadron...
The Carlstrom Foothills (81°25′S 159°0′E / 81.417°S 159.000°E / -81.417; 159.000) are a group of peaks and ridges in the Churchill Mountains, Antarctica...
March 1918 at Rich Field, Waco, Texas, moved the same month to CarlstromField, Florida, redesignated Squadron A, CarlstromField in July 1918 and demobilized...
supplied materiel to aviation fields and in particular to Park Field, Taylor Field, Payne Field, CarlstromField, and Dorr Field. Aviation General Supply Depot...
halfback), Carlton (right halfback), Newton (fullback). The Gators lost to CarlstromField and its "baffling" display of passes and defense 19–0. Gene Vidal's...
training school for the 53d Flying Training Detachment at what is now CarlstromField in Florida. Cost overruns led to partner O'Neal resigning, and being...
establishment of service schools. Flying training, originally at CarlstromField in Florida and March Field in California, moved to Texas, divided between the 11th...
listed. The numerical designation of school squadrons at the various flying fields in the United States was discontinued in July 1918, and replaced by letter...
instructor of pursuit plane flying in Gerstner Field, Louisiana, and then Dorr Field and CarlstromField in Florida, where he successfully designed an...
when their biplane collapsed in flight. CarlstromField was named in his honor. His niece, Marion Carlstrom, was the first Women Airforce Service Pilot...
course in civil engineering. On July 2, 1921, Vidal was detailed to CarlstromField, Florida, for pilot training at the Air Service Pilot School, and transferred...
MacDill Field (1943) Became sub-base of: Chatam Army Airfield, Georgia (1943-1944) Transferred to: Air Service Command (1944-1945) Later: Imeson Field Airport...
Marion Virginia Carlstrom Trick (May 20, 1919 – January 14, 2010) was the first woman from Colorado to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots and the...
commandant of both the Pursuit School and the Aerial Gunnery School at CarlstromField. On January 21, 1919, Major Hickam was appointed chief of the Information...
Montgomery Air Intermediate Depot in Alabama in January 1921. He went to CarlstromField, Florida, in December 1921 as the Officer in Charge of the Machine...
Air Corps in 1931, nearly all flying training had taken place at Randolph Field, near San Antonio, Texas. During the 1930s, Randolph had produced about...
civilian contract schools at Woodward Field in South Carolina, Albany and Americus in Georgia, CarlstromField, Arcadia and Lakeland in Florida, and Tuscaloosa...
Riddle and McKay also formed the Riddle Aeronautical Institute at CarlstromField in Arcadia, Florida on March 22, 1941 for the purpose of training pilots...
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