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Danville Auxiliary Field is a former facility of 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 ...
located in
Danville, Alabama Danville, also known as Houstons Store, is an unincorporated community in Morgan County, Alabama Morgan County is a county in the north central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, its population was 123,421. The county s ...
. Constructed after 1941 as an auxiliary to the nearby Courtland Army Air Field, it was turned into Danville Airport following the war, and was eventually closed between 1986 and 1989. No trace of the airfield remains.


See also

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Alabama World War II Army Airfields During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Alabama for antisubmarine defense in the Gulf of Mexico and for training pilots and aircrews of AAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields we ...
* List of airports in Alabama


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{{Coord, 34, 25, 27, N, 087, 07, 08, W, display=title Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Alabama Transportation buildings and structures in Morgan County, Alabama Closed installations of the United States Army