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Greetings from Sheppard Field

Date
c. 1940s
State
Texas
City
Wichita Falls
Format
Postcard

An airplane anchors this greeting from Sheppard Field near Wichita Falls. The illustrated military details make the installation, rather than the surrounding city, the subject of the postcard.

Sheppard Field near Wichita Falls became an aviation mechanics training center in 1941. Its first mechanics class began that October as the Army expanded its ability to maintain aircraft.

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