The No. 1 British Flying Training School was set up in August 1941, months before the United States entered the war, and was run by Major W.F. Long of Dallas. Over the course of the war it trained about 2,200 Royal Air Force cadets and 138 U.S. Army Air Forces cadets, and twenty men died in training. The last cadets left Terrell’s railroad station on 10 September 1945, and the school is remembered today by the No. 1 BFTS Museum in Terrell, which was founded by former cadets.