Carolina Snaps
Shaw Air Force Base
Season 5 Episode 12 | 58sVideo has Closed Captions
Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, South Carolina opened in 1941 as Shaw Field.
Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina, named after pilot Ervin David Shaw is home to the 9th Air Force Headquarters and the 20th Fighter Wing. It was activated as Shaw Field in 1941 for Army Air Corps pilot training before the US entered WWII. Shaw Field became Shaw AFB when the Air Force separated from the Army in 1947. In the 1950s it was home to the 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing.
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Carolina Snaps
Shaw Air Force Base
Season 5 Episode 12 | 58sVideo has Closed Captions
Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina, named after pilot Ervin David Shaw is home to the 9th Air Force Headquarters and the 20th Fighter Wing. It was activated as Shaw Field in 1941 for Army Air Corps pilot training before the US entered WWII. Shaw Field became Shaw AFB when the Air Force separated from the Army in 1947. In the 1950s it was home to the 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipShaw Air Force Base is home of the Ninth Air Force headquarters and the 20th fighter wing, which is the largest combat F-16 fighting wing.
Shaw Air Force Base was named after U.S. pilot First Lieutenant Ervin David Shaw.
While returning from a reconnaissance mission in France during World War I Lieutenant Shaw was attacked by three enemy fighter planes.
He shot one of them down before being shot down himself.
Shaw Field was actively flying training classes two months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the first class of trainees finished phase II training only two months after the attack.
More than 8,600 pilots graduated from Shaw Training over the course of the war.
Shaw became an Air Force base with the separation of Army and Air Force in 1947.
In 1950, Shaw Air Force Base became home of the 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing.
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Carolina Snaps is a local public television program presented by SCETV
Support for this program is provided by The ETV Endowment of South Carolina.