Description

MOORE FIELD, CLASS 44-D
V Training Group, Army Air Forces • World War II •
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Document Overview
Published by the Aviation Cadets of the Advanced Flying School, Army Air Forces, Moore Field, Mission, Texas, this is the Class 44-D graduation yearbook (Volume Three, Number Four), chronicling the class’s single-engine advanced pilot training from classification through Primary, Basic, and Advanced flight school to graduation and commissioning. It includes squadron rosters and cadet photographs, staff and instructor listings, training and gunnery instruction, base life, and class traditions. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original wartime publication.

Campaigns: Classification & Pre-Flight training (San Antonio) • Primary Flying School • Basic Flying School • Advanced Flying School (Moore Field) • Instrument Training • Aerial Gunnery Training

Commanders: Col. F. G. Jamison (Commanding Officer) • Lt. Col. C. M. Walton (Director of Training) • Lt. Col. C. W. Boedeker (Director of Flying) • Maj. Wallace Wall (Air Inspector) • Capt. R. I. Berry (Commandant of Cadets)

Field publication: The Ramp

Table of Contents
Foreword
Commanding Officer
Staff Officers
Enlisted Personnel — Cadet Detachment
V Training Group
First Fighter Squadron
Second Fighter Squadron
Third Fighter Squadron
Fourth Fighter Squadron
The Training Story
Instrument Training Squadron
Gunnery Squadron
Open Post
Cadet Area
Ground Crew
Kaydet Slanguage
Graduation
Appreciation
Wings (poem)

“New wings upon their breasts.”
— James L. Grill, “Wings”