Description

Eagle Pass Army Air Field — Class 44-E, “The Eagles”
Army Air Forces Advanced Flying School • World War II •
100 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview
This is the class yearbook of Class 44-E, “The Eagles,” at Eagle Pass Army Air Field, an Army Air Forces advanced flying school in Eagle Pass, Texas. It covers post and tactical officers, medical officers, the two training groups and their flights of cadets, the squadron commander, and a memorial to classmates and instructors lost during training. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original wartime class book.

Training: Advanced flight instruction under the Army Air Forces, culminating in the graduation and commissioning of Class 44-E as officers and fighter pilots in 1944.

Commanders: Colonel John H. Bundy, Commanding Officer; Lt. Col. J. McCorkle, Director of Training; Lt. Col. P. S. Rahill, Commandant of Student Officers and Aviation Cadets; Major S. Standley Jr., Director of Flying.

Field newspaper: unknown

Table of Contents
Post Officers
Tactical Officers
Medical Officers
Group I
Group II
Flights A through K
Squadron Commander
In Memoriam

“Their example will be forever before us so that when the time comes we too will acquit ourselves like men.”
— In Memoriam, Class 44-E