The Snapshots in Time Collection

Radio School Training Page, Scott Field Yearbook/Course Book

Radio School Training Page, Scott Field Yearbook/Course Book

This page from a wartime Scott Field training publication documents the U.S. Army Air Forces' Radio School, where thousands of young airmen were trained as radio operators and radio mechanics during World War II. Scott Field, Illinois, served as one of the AAF's principal signal and communications training centers, teaching Morse code proficiency, equipment maintenance, and radio theory to men who would go on to serve as aircrew and ground communications personnel throughout every theater of the war, including with bomber groups such as those later stationed at Ie Shima with the 345th Bombardment Group. Project: 218127