Alliance Auxiliary Army Airfield is a closed military airfield. It was located 14 miles southeast of
Marianna, Florida.
History
Originally constructed by the
United States Army Air Forces
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and ''de facto'' aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II ...
in 1943 as one of four auxiliary airfields for the pilot training school at
Marianna Army Airfield
Graham Air Base was a United States Air Force base located in Marianna, Florida. After it was closed in 1960, it was reused as Marianna Municipal Airport.
History
Marianna Army Airfield
The federal government acquired the airport at the cit ...
. Its original designation was Alliance Auxiliary Army Airfield #4. The airfield was constructed with two asphalt 5'000 foot runways, each with a parallel taxiway.
The airfield was apparently unmanned, had no buildings nor any permanent units assigned. It was used for emergency and for touch-and-go landings as part of the pilot training school. With the end of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
and the closure of Mariana AAF in 1945, the airfield was closed and abandoned.
In the years since, the airfield concrete and asphalt has been removed and today the land is in private ownership, being used for agriculture. Aerial imagery shows no trace of the facility, and a county farm road was constructed over the former military airfield. A small crop-dusting airstrip (County Line Airstrip Airport (FL35)) was constructed in 2008 about a mile to the northeast, but it has no relationship to the former military airfield.
See also
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Florida World War II Army Airfields
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Florida for antisubmarine defense in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico and for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters, attack planes, and ...
References
Abandoned Airfields: Alliance Auxiliary Army Airfield #4
External links
Defunct airports in Florida
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Florida
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