Ohio World War II Army Airfields

During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Ohio for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers.

Most of these airfields were under the command of First Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC) (A predecessor of the current-day United States Air Force Air Education and Training Command). However the other USAAF support commands (Air Technical Service Command (ATSC); Air Transport Command (ATC) or Troop Carrier Command) commanded a significant number of airfields in a support roles.

It is still possible to find remnants of these wartime airfields. Many were converted into municipal airports, some were returned to agriculture and several were retained as United States Air Force installations and were front-line bases during the Cold War. Hundreds of the temporary buildings that were used survive today, and are being used for other purposes.

Major airfields
Army Air Force Training Command
 * Bricker APT, Bowling Green
 * Contract Primary Flying Instruction
 * Now: Wood County Airport


 * Lockbourne AAB, Columbus
 * 374th Army Air Force Base Unit
 * Was: Lockbourne Air Force Base (1948-1974)
 * Was: Rickenbacker Air Force Base (1974-1980)
 * Now: Roundel of the USAF.svg Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base (1980-Pres)
 * Also: Rickenbacker International Airport (1994-Pres)


 * Eastern Flight Training Center
 * Kenton County Airport, Covington, Kentucky
 * Sub-base of Lockbourne AAB
 * Now: Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport

Air Transport Command
 * Lunken APT, Cincinnati
 * Joint use USAAF–Navy–Civil airfield
 * Now: Cincinnati Municipal Lunken Airport

Air Technical Service Command
 * Cleveland MAP, Cleveland
 * Aircraft assembly and modification facilities
 * Now: Cleveland Hopkins International Airport


 * Patterson Field AAF, Fairborn
 * 478th Army Air Force Base Unit
 * Merged 1948 with Wright Field AAF


 * Wright Field, AAF, Dayton
 * Merged 1948 with Patterson Field
 * Now: Roundel of the USAF.svg Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (1948-Pres)
 * Dayton AAF, Dayton
 * Sub-base of Wright Field AAF
 * Joint use USAAF/Navy/Civil Airfield
 * Now: Dayton International Airport
 * Clinton County AAF, Wilmington, Ohio
 * Sub-base of Wright Field AAF
 * Glider Training
 * Now: Airborne Airpark