Greenville Air Force Base (Mississippi)

In February 1940, a United States Army Air Corps site selection board picked Greenville, Mississippi, as the location of a training center for the Second Aviation Initiative.

The Air Corps activated Greenville Army Airfield in August 1940, only two months after construction commenced.

ATSC used Greenville as a storage depot for returning Eighth and Fifteenth Air Force B-24 Liberators.

In December 1963, Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara announced that Greenville would be closed in 1965 as part of budgetary reductions.

De-militarization activities at Greenville AFB were commenced and the military part of the airport was returned to full civilian control on 27 December 1966.

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

Greenville Army Airfield 1943 photo pictorial
Number of Aviations Cadets graduated and eliminated from Basic Flying School at Greenville Army Airfield, Greenville, Mississippi, from 24 January 1942 to 15 January 1944.
Emblem of the 3505th Pilot Training Wing (ATC)