> > Shepherd Field, TX `````````` My father (Frank Clayton Bridges) was in the Army Air Corp during WWII. He was stationed somewhere in TX, and this must have been the place. He later went to Maxwell Field... Alabama? He had passed all of the tests to be a pilot, but flying the plane during training scared him. (I can't imagine his ever being afraid of anything. C'est la vie!) Anyway, he asked to be changed to a bombadier (sp). Is Maxwell Field the place for that training? Is is in Alabama? I remember my parents telling me about it many times, but can't seem to pull in all of the details. Leslie (Bridges) Kohler

Hi Leslie, Maxwell Field, Alabama is now Maxwell AFB, Ala. and is located at Montgomery, AL. I don't know if they trained bombardiers there in WW2. I know that there were other training bases for bombardiers. In 1946 Maxwell became the Air University and it still is same. I spent 4 months there in 1961 but that doesn't do you much good, does it. John (Hunt) can you throw any more light on this subject? By the way for all. Officers in the AAF were designated as AC e.g. John Doe, 1Lt AC. AC stood for Air Corps and was a branch of the Army like INF was infantry and FA was Field Artillery. Enlisted men in the AAF were not designated or identified as AC. That was different from the pre war Army Air Corps which became the Army Air Force and in1947, the USAF. In WW2 the Army consisted of the AGF-Army Ground Forces, ASF-Army Service Forces and AAF-Army Air Force. George Ude