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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY RIVERSIDE CAMPUS PLAN8FIGURE 1On 5 August 1942 official establishment of thewas also assigned to the task of developing stan-Lab (7092), TTI Machining Facility (7093), Pub-View of Bryan Air Force Baselooking southwest to FlightLine, now Riverside Campus,ca. 1956.Army Air Force Advanced Flying School, Bryan,Texas, was authorized by command of MajorGeneral Harmon. The construction of the air fieldstarted on 7 August 1942. On 21 January 1943dardized flying instruments and instrument-onlyflight training. Women Air Force Service Pilots(WASP) trained in Sweetwater, Texas and laterstationed at Bryan, flew AT-6 and BT-13’s as en-lications PRO. Center (7176), Nautical ArcheologyStorage (7177), Nautical Archaeology (8488),Archaeological Projects Building (8483), TTIPavements Research Facility (8510), and vari-the 41st Base Headquarters and Air Base Squad-gineering test pilots.ous Warehouses (7098, 8175, 8508, 8511, 8512,ron, activated at Foster Field as an administrativesquadron arrived at Bryan, Texas. By this time allthe barracks were completed and the men startedto live on the post.As of June 2011 the remaining structures from the1942-1943 building campaign are the AquacultureLab (6242), Water Supply Building (6452),Office Building (7003), Chapel & Assembly Hall8513, 8516, 8517, 8518, 8519, 8521, 8529, 8530).(The numbering system is the one currently in usein 2011).At the conclusion of WWII in 1946 the base wasCommanding Officer Colonel James B. Duck-(7006), Aerospace Hangar (7046), TEES Recordsdeactivated and assigned to the Agricultural andworth’s 1944 history of the base notes that it wasArchive (7057), TTI Research (7061), Conser-Mechanical College of Texas. The military facili-the only example among its peers with a focus onvation Projects (7064), Transformer Warehouseties were converted into dormitory and classroomtraining both pilots and instructors. The school(7065), Flight Lab Storage (7078), Turbo Labspaces to house returning servicemen seekingtaught hundreds of WWII pilots how to fly mod-Storage (7079), Biology Storage (7080), TTIcollege education under the G. I. Bill. In the firstern aircraft, and the instructor’s training facilitySafety Division Hangar (7090), Mechanical Techyear, seven hundred students occupied the facili-1
HISTORY9ty. By 1947, all entering freshmen were automaticallyassigned to the “Annex,” as the base becameknown, and it ultimately housed some 1,500 students.The Annex was used as the freshmen divisionof the college until June 1950, when decliningenrollments and a robust building programprovided space to accommodate the entire studentbody on the main campus.FIGURE 2Ag Comm Print Center (4430)built at end of Korean Conflict,ca. 1958, as barrack buildings.FIGURE 3Hangar 6030 in 1953, nowused by TEEX for classroomsand officesIn 1943 the base had twelve barrack buildings assignedto African American enlisted men. Theirofficers slept in the same quarters or lived offbase. By the Korean War there was provision forAfrican American officers, but many preferred tolive in Bryan.REACTIVATION AND EXPANSION FORTHE KOREAN CONFLICT 1952-1958At the onset of the Korean War (1950-1953), theAir Force, that had become a separate branch ofthe U. S armed services in 1947, reactivated thefacility and built two 7,000’ runways, two threestorybrick barrack buildings and other structures.The Bryan Air Force Base housed the 3530th PilotTraining Wing, a flight training school crucialto the continuous supply of pilots for the ongoingair raids being conducted in Korea.2The Korean Conflict resulted in defense spendingquadrupling in 1950, providing funds to rehabilitateolder buildings and bring the Bryan Air ForceBase up to date by adding new installations. In1951 the U. S. Army Corp of Engineers hired severaldifferent firms to facilitate these rehabilitationand addition projects. The rehabilitation projectincluded restoring the majority of the existingbuildings, additions to several existing buildings;and the construction of four new warehouses, andadding a wing to the headquarters and a communicationbuilding.During the Korean War, Bryan Air Force Basehoused the 3530th Pilot Training Wing whichflew T-28 Trojan propeller-powered trainers andthe 3531st Pilot Training Wing which flew thenewer T-33 Shooting Star jet-propelled fighteraircraft. Training continued at the base until 1958when the base was placed on inactive status.3
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