Rare WWII USAAF Turner Field PILOT 10K GOLD RING Size 9.5 Advanced Flying School

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Rare WWII
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
GOLD 10K PILOT RING
Turner Field
SEAFTC
Southeast Air Force Training Center
Size 9.5
HJ10K (Herff Jones 10k Gold)
Turner Field
In mid-1940 the U.S. Army Air Corps approached the city of Albany (GA) about the possibility of building a training base near Albany. The city raised the necessary money and purchased 4,900 acres of land which was then leased to the Army for a year. Construction of the base and airfield, named Air Corps Advanced Flying School, Albany by the United States Army Corps of Engineers began on 25 March 1941. On 21 July 1941, the field was named Turner Field in honor of Lt. Sullivan Preston Turner, killed the year before as a result of a mid-air collision.
Once operational, Turner Field was used for acclimatization training (for foreign trainees) and advanced flight training as part of the 30th Flying Training Wing. Under the Arnold Scheme some 5,000 Royal Air Force trainees were trained at Turner Field and nearby Darr Aero Tech between 1941 and 1943. In 1944 Turner Field began training Free French Air Forces pilots to fly the North American B-25 Mitchell of which more than 100 were based at Turner Field.
Turner Field was deactivated on 15 August 1946 and maintained in caretaker status.
Southeast Air Force Training Center
Originally established in July 1940 when the United States Army Air Corps formed its training center at Maxwell Field, Alabama as the
Southeast Air Corps Training Center
(SEACTC). It was redesignated
Southeast Air Force Training Center
(SEAFTC) on 23 January 1942. The organization handled flying training (basic, primary and advanced) at airfields in the Eastern United States.
On 31 July 1943, was again redesignated as the Eastern Flying Training Command. Inactivated on 15 December 1945, being consolidated into Central Flying Training Command at Randolph Field, Texas.
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