Bainbridge Army Airfield-Bainbridge, Georgia
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Sprinterman
N 30° 58.688 W 084° 36.863
16R E 727828 N 3429620
US 27 4 mi N of Bainbridge, Georgia at Bainbridge Industrial Park
Waymark Code: WMBW0M
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 06/25/2011
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In August, 1942, on this 2,053 acre tract, the U.S. Army constructed a basic flight training field. It remained open until 1945. At its peak 9600 officers, enlisted men, trainees and WACS were stationed here; there were 700 civilian employees, several hundred WW II German P.O.W.S were imprisoned here. In 1951 southern airways school, a private company, contracted with the U.S.A.F. to train its pilots. The base closed in 1961 and became an industrial park.
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