August 1, 2009

The Walnut Ridge Army Flying School, one of seven U.S. Army Air Forces pilot training schools located in Arkansas, was activated on August 15, 1942. After World War II, the school’s airfield was used to store more than 10,000 obsolete planes for scrapping and future sale. At least sixty-five of the military’s 118 B-32 heavy bombers, such as the ones shown here, were flown to the airfield, some directly from the assembly line.