This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zEC.2ACE/226.4 Message Board Post: During the 1940's the US Army developed a training base and field outside of Antigo. Glider and observation pilots were trained at the small field. Small Piper Cub airplanes were used to train the pilots, who learned to fly the small planes and would then fly solo in a variety of modes. Observation pilots were trained to fly low, following the contours of the area. Several fatalities resulted from hitting barns or fences. Other pilots were trained as glider pilots. flying to the highest altitudes of the planes ability, cutting engines and gliding back to the training fields. As a youngster I would climb our family apple tree and watch the pilots practicing. Several fatalities occurred at the field with personnel walking into or being hit by the propellors of the planes. At the end of the war the field, which was greatly improved reverted back to civilian use. In 1946 I flew with a pilot in an old biplane and photographed the Senior High School from the air for the school photography club. Later, during the cold war it became the Radar Station noted in the Antigo Daily Journal in July.