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Article: The Wings of Change: The Army Air Force Experience in Texas during World War II.(Brief Article)
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- Air Power History
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- March 22, 2006
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Air Force Historical Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The Wings of Change: The Army Air Force Experience in Texas during World War II. By Thomas E. Alexander. Abilene, Tex.: McWhiney Foundation Press, 2003. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. Pp. 229. $29.95 ISBN: 1-893114-35-X
On the brink of World War II, Texas offered the Army Air Forces an abundance of ideal locations to build air bases. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, a maddening pace of air base construction began that would eventually result in sixty-five Army airfields within the borders of Texas--more than any other state. Such a large number of air bases and the men and women who manned them flooding into a largely ...