Description

Moore Field – Class 43-E
1st Training Group, Gulf Coast Training Center, Army Air Forces • World War II •
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Document Overview

Compiled by the graduating Aviation Cadets of Class 43-E, this unit history was published by Moore Field, the Army Air Forces’ advanced single-engine (pursuit) flying school near Mission, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley. It chronicles the class’s nine weeks of advanced training in 1943 — from Ground School instruction and gunnery practice at Matagorda to graduation and receipt of pilot wings — with tributes to commanding officers, instructors, ground crews, and fellow cadets. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original wartime yearbook.

Campaigns: Advanced Single-Engine (Pursuit) Flight Training • Ground School Instruction (navigation, aircraft/naval identification, tactics) • Aerial and Ground Gunnery Training, Matagorda Range • Skeet Shooting Instruction • Formation Flying, Acrobatics, and Cross-Country Flights • Graduation and Commissioning as Second Lieutenants

Commanders: Lt. Col. F. G. Jamison, Commanding Officer, Moore Field • Major C. W. Boedeker, Commanding, 1st Training Group • Capt. R. J. Berry, Commandant, Cadet Detachment • Major M. E. Wooton, Director of Ground School • Capt. W. Wall, Jr., Commanding, Second Fighter Squadron

Field publication: The Ramp

Table of Contents
Dedication — “High Flight” by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
History of Moore Field
Message from the Commanding Officer
Ground School Staff
1st Training Group
Flight Rosters — E, F, G, H Flights
Cadet’s Glossary
Second Fighter Squadron
Flight Rosters — A through L Flights
History of Class 43-E
The Cadet’s Twenty-Third Psalm
Gunnery Training at Matagorda
Skeet Shooting
Tribute to the Ground Crew
Wings and Graduation

“Put out my hand and touched the face of God.”
— John Gillespie Magee, Jr., “High Flight”