--part1_80.8cb937e.27f357f6_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes Maxwell AFB is in Alabama and as far as I know it is still in use. Sheppard AFB was I believe in Witcha Falls Texas. Many of these old training bases have been closed in the lst 30 or so years and also there missions were changed. I'm retired Air Force like Geo Ude. But my memory is getting faulty. I think Sheppard msay have been a trng base for Aircraft Mechanic's, but could have also been used for pilot trng at the same time. Many of the old WWII base's have been turned over to the states and are now Air National Guard Bases. I was an Aircraft Mechanic and a Radio Maint Technician both. But not at the same time. I retrained from Aircraft Maint into the Radio Maint Field. I mention this because there were many other enlisted men that did this also. So yours or anyones son, uncle cousin could have been in more than one career field, during there time in the service TSgt Stan Brookshier USAF (Ret.) --part1_80.8cb937e.27f357f6_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-xd02.mx.aol.com (rly-xd02.mail.aol.com [172.20.105.167]) by air-xd05.mail.aol.com (v77_r1.36) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:45:11 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by rly-xd02.mx.aol.com (v77_r1.36) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:44:35 1900 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f2SEiKa27104; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:44:20 -0700 Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:44:20 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Wed Mar 28 07:44:19 2001 Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "~~Leslie~~" <[email protected]> Old-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:48:33 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Subject: [MO] WWII - Sheperd & Maxwell Fields Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/18752 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] > > 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 ==== Missouri Mailing List ==== See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mogenweb/mo.htm for all the available MO county lists. ============================== Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 Source for Family History Online. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB --part1_80.8cb937e.27f357f6_boundary--