It was established as the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics (AAFSAT) in 1942 and redesignated the following year.
However "to save administrative costs and physical outlay"[3] and to facilitate coordination between the schools, all four would be consolidated at a single location.
[7] Having lost its developmental function, the AAF Center moved to Eglin Field in March 1946 and became the Army Air Forces Proving Ground Command.
[8] The AAF Tactical Center medium and heavy bomber school unit from 31 October 1942 was the 9th Bombardment Group.
However, the AAF was finding that standard military units like these groups, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization not well adapted to the training mission.
[12] In preparation for this reorganization, the 9th Bombardment Group moved to Nebraska, where it was reassigned to Second Air Force to become a Boeing B-29 Superfortress unit.
[9][note 4] The 50th Fighter Group began to concentrate on training in preparation for deployment to the European Theater of Operations in March 1944, the 481st Night Fighter Operational Training Group continued its mission, but transferred to Fourth Air Force in California in January 1944.
With a ground school at Orlando Army Air Base, Florida, presenting a two-week academic course, AAFSAT also taught a two-week field course utilizing eleven training airfields in Florida representing all conditions likely to be found in combat, from bare fields to prepared bomber air bases having 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runways.
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