Graduation Program, Naval Air Technical Training Center, Millington, 1944

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Graduation program for classes G40-AOM (Aviation Ordnanceman),R38-ARM (Aviation Radioman), SB2C-Line Maintenance School, and M35-AMM (Aviation Machinist’s Mate) at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Millington, Tennessee, on July 22, 1944. The Naval Reserve Aviation Base was established in June 1942 at the former U.S. Army training ground, Park Field. It became a Naval Training Station for Aviation Maintenance before being designated NATTC in early 1943. As a primary flight training center in World War II, six hundred to eight hundred aviation cadets trained at a time. The ground crew training facility was designed for ten thousand students. The entire complex, which included unpaved satellite fields in a fifteen-mile radius, covered an area of more than 3,500 acres.

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sc.0502.008_006.001

Date

1944 July 22

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Naval Air Technical Training Center (Naval Air Station Memphis (Tenn.))

Recommended Citation

"Graduation Program, Naval Air Technical Training Center, Millington, 1944" (2021). NATTC, Memphis, documents. 1.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-wwtwo2/1