Childress Municipal Airport

Childress Municipal Airport
Childress Municipal Airport
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IATA: CDSICAO: KCDS
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Childress, Texas
Operator 1,954
Serves City of Childress, Texas
Location Childress, Texas
Elevation AMSL 595.6 ft / 182 m
Coordinates 34°26′01.6104″N 100°17′16.7704″W / 34.433780667°N 100.287991778°W / 34.433780667; -100.287991778Coordinates: 34°26′01.6104″N 100°17′16.7704″W / 34.433780667°N 100.287991778°W / 34.433780667; -100.287991778
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17/35 5,949 1,813 Asphalt
4/22 4,425 1,349 Asphalt
Childress MAP is located in Texas
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Childress MAP
Location of Childress Municipal Airport, Texas

Childress Municipal Airport (IATA: CDSICAO: KCDS) is a commercial airport located within city limits, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of central Childress, Texas.

It is owned and operated by the city of Childress, Texas.

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History

AAF Bombardier School patch, 1943

The airport was opened in October 1942 as Childress Army Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base.

Childress AAF operated as a bombardier-training school under the Central Flying Training Command. It occupied an area of 2,474 acres (10.01 km2). Construction of the field was announced on 2 May 1942, and began immediately thereafter. An activation ceremony was held in October 1942, and Col. John W. White assumed command on 24 November.

The first class of cadets began training in February 1943 and graduated in May. Members of this class were dubbed the "Valentine of Steel" class, in reference to a dummy bomb that Mrs. White decorated as a Valentine to Hitler. Subsequent classes arrived at three-week intervals through the rest of the war and participated in an initial training program of eighteen weeks, later increased to twenty-four. Those who completed the work were designated flight officers or commissioned as second lieutenants.

The base produced the first classes qualified in both precision bombing and dead-reckoning navigation. In 3½ years Childress AAF graduated thirty-five classes of bombardier-navigators; its 4,791 graduates made a tenth of the total World War II air force bombardier production.

The first "All-American Precision Bombing Olympics" was held at Childress in May 1943 with seven air fields participating. Such meets were held there and at other training bases at three-week intervals thereafter until April 1944. A special practice feature was skip-bombing on Lake Childress.

A redeployment program for veteran bombardiers was instituted at the field to give retraining in line with development of bombing techniques. The War Department also established a prisoner of war camp at the base. Childress was renamed the 2512th Army Air Forces Base Unit on July 1, 1944.

After the field was closed on December 21, 1945, it was given to the city and transformed into a municipal airport.

See also

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

  • Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004.
  • Manning, Thomas A. (2005), History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas ASIN: B000NYX3PC

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  • Manning, Thomas A. (2005), History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas ASIN: B000NYX3PC
  • AirNav.Com - Childress Municipal Airport (KCDS)
  • Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Publisher: Pictorial Histories Pub, ISBN 1575100517

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