The instrument training school at Bryan AAF was the only one of its kind in the United States Army Air Forces.

Housing was in short supply, so between 1946 and 1950, an estimated 5,500 students lived, studied, ate, and attended classes at what became known as the Annex, located in buildings the USAF was not using.

Former students lived and studied in cramped, cheaply built and already-dilapidated WWII buildings without heating, air conditioning or indoor plumbing, and described having to hitchhike to and from the remote site if they did not have their own cars.

[3] In 1951, with the outbreak of the Korean War, the base was reactivated for USAF pilot training and the runways were extended.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency