Historical Note

From Wikipedia (accessed 26 March 2024, original source: Manning, Thomas A. (2005), History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas OCLC 71006954, 29991467):

"When the supply depot at Love Field, Dallas, closed in 1921 and moved to Kelly Field TX, the Air Service mechanics's school was forced to move to Chanute Field, Illinois.

In 1922, the school was expanded when the photography school at Langley Field, Virginia, and the communications school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, both joined the mechanics course at Chanute, congregating all technical training in the Air Service at that location.

The facility at Chanute was re-designated as the Air Corps Technical School in 1926, with the former separate schools becoming 'Departments'.

In 1930, two more Departments were established at Chanute, the Department of Clerical Instruction and the Department of Armament.

Technical training expanded in 1938 at Lowry Field, Colorado, when the Photography, Armament and Clerical instruction were moved from Chanute to the new facilities in Denver.

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