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Synthetic training installations, as well as the extensive shops and warehouses required for the maintenance of aircraftĪnd other equipment. Towers, air communications equipment, weather apparatus, off-base navigational aids, night lighting devices, and It had to maintain and operate runways, control Housing and sustaining its personnel and for performing the air mission. Point from which all air missions started and to which they returned.Įach base, regardless of whether it was used for training or for combat, thus had to maintain facilities both for Knew that the AAF, unlike other elements of the Army, depended upon its bases for fighting power, trainingĮffectiveness, and strategic mobility, for the bases were the core around which all air force operations revolved, the Have to be provided housing and shelter before they could be trained and integrated into the Air Corps. To them it was obvious that recruits would Keep aircraft, personnel, and base facilities continually in balance could not be an effective combat arm, accepted thisĭefinition as basic policy in programming AAF expansion during World War II. Chapter 4: The Development of Base FacilitiesĪN AIR FORCE,” General Arnold explained to a congressional committee in January 1939, “is a balancedĬompound of three essential ingredients – airplanes, combat and maintenance crews, and air bases.” 1 Air planners, believing that any air force which did not Home Table of Contents Previous: Chapter 3 Next: Chapter 5