It was closed on 30 November 1945 Dyersburg AAB was the largest combat aircrew training school built during the early war years.

Tennessee congressmen encouraged the Air Corps, and an article in the local newspaper at the end of March noted the visits by Army survey teams to the area.

Approximately 2,400 acres of land was leased by the War Department and turned over to the Air Corps at the present Arnold Field, this included the relocation of over 70 families from their traditional homesteads.

The station facility consisted of a large number of buildings based on standardized plans and architectural drawings, with the buildings designed to be the "cheapest, temporary character with structural stability only sufficient to meet the needs of the service which the structure is intended to fulfill during the period of its contemplated war use" was underway.

The station was designed to be nearly self-sufficient, with not only hangars, but barracks, warehouses, hospitals, dental clinics, dining halls, and maintenance shops were needed.

Citizens in Brownsville, Ripley, Halls and Dyersburg made room for the influx of wives, mothers and children who wanted to spend a short time with their soldiers before they went to combat.

Vice-President Harry Truman visited the base during the war as did country singer Roy Acuff and Governor Jim McCord.

Another training device was called the "ditching pond" which taught heavy bomber pilots how to perform controlled water landings.

Its 724th, 725th, 726th and 727th Bombardment Squadrons underwent second and third phase training with the group's B-17s at the base separately from the 346th, with B-24 Liberators before leaving for Wendover Field, Utah in July before deploying to Twelfth Air Force in North Africa during November.

Towards the latter end of the base's operations during World War 2, a small detachment of five Women Army Service Pilots were stationed at the flight school.

[4] While the full extent of their work is not known, according to oral history accounts Dorothy Hawkins Goot flew gunnery patterns,[5] and Frances Smith Tuchband conducted operation in B-17s and L-5s.

Despite a flurry of activity by Congressmen representing Tennessee, the facility was closing, as most temporary training airfields in the United States were.

In 1946, with World War II over, the DAAB was deactivated, and the base was hastily dismantled, land was sold, and barracks and guard shacks were moved to private property.

Today, the only evidence of the containment area are a Norden bombsight storage building, tall chimneys where the theatre and other sites were located, and the large aircraft parking 95 acres (0.38 km2) apron.

Forlorn of aircraft, the apron now had hundreds of over the road trailers and an open storage yard with a few buildings erected on the concrete.

The Dyersburg Army Air Base Memorial Veterans' Museum, in which a large number of artifacts and other exhibits are on display, is in a building on the former aircraft parking apron.