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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: October 2, 2015
Caption: Buckingham Air Field Marker
Additional Description: Buckingham Field, a flexible gunnery school, was activated on July 5, 1942. The 65.723-acre base was located 6.5 miles east of Fort Myers. Buckingham graduated approximately 50,000 gunners to serve America's WWII bombers. An Instructor's School and the 75th Flying Training Wing were also located there. During 1944-1945 B-29 Pilots trained at the base.
Submitted: November 22, 2015, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p339219
File Size: 0.153 Megabytes

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