It was assigned to the Army Air Forces Training Command, stationed at Maxwell Field, Alabama.

After the Fall of France in May 1940, the United States began rapidly expanding its military forces, and with the large numbers of men entering the military, the training requirements of the Air Corps were drastically expanded.

EFTC also operated aircrew schools for Navigators, Bombardiers and flexible aerial gunners.

[1] EFTC was inactivated on 15 December 1945, being consolidated into the new Central Flying Training Command at Randolph Field, Texas, as part of the consolidation of the Army Air Forces after World War II ended.

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