This page identifies the civilian staff who ran the Greenwood, South Carolina War Training Service site under contract to the U.S. Navy's V-5 aviation cadet program. Proprietor Luther Johnson of Johnson Flying Service, Certified Flight Instructor Jack Whatley, and a small team of fellow instructors and ground personnel delivered elementary flight training to cadets in 1943. Such civilian-operated 'E-bases' were a vital, often overlooked, component of the wartime pipeline that produced Naval Aviators. Project: 218570