Love Field Aviation Camp, World War I

WWI_love-field_water-tower_ca-1918_degolyer-library_SMULove Field, with water tower, 1918

by Paula Bosse

On Memorial Day, a few photos of Love Field, which began as an aviation training camp during World War One. Read more on its history in an article by the City of Dallas Office of Historic Preservation, here.

WWI_love-field_marching-drills_ca-1918_degolyer-library_SMUvia DeGolyer Library, SMU

WWI_love-field_pilots_nov-1918_degolyer-library_SMUvia DeGolyer Library, SMU

WWI_love-field-aviation-camp_1918_LOCvia Library of Congress

WWI_love-field_flying-officers_1918_LOCvia Library of Congress

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Sources & Notes

Top photo is from the collection “Love Field Air Corps Training Depot and Dallas Aviation School, Texas” at the DeGolyer Library, SMU; more information on this photo can be found here. The second and third photos are from this same collection and are linked directly below the images. (The entire collection can be viewed here.)

More on WWI-era Love Field can be found in the 2014 Flashback Dallas (Valentine’s Day) post “From Deep in the Heart of Texas, I Give You Love Field — 1919.”

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