Love Field Aviation Camp, World War I
by Paula Bosse
Love 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.
via Library of Congress
via 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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Flashback : Dallas 
By way of maybe dating, the last photo, “Flying officers” has two Standard J trainers as interesting backdrops. These planes were handicapped by engine problems that led to their rapid withdrawal from service. The plane in the photo featuring the three pilots is the classic Curtiss Jenny which replaced the Standards in American pilot training. Postwar and reengined the Standard had a sound role in American civil aviation. If you saw Thoroughly Modern Milly the red biplane seen in several scenes was one of the Standards fitted with a Hispano Suiza engine. All the photos in this spread are most appreciated.
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Thanks, Bob!
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I love those leather coats on the gentlemen in picture 3
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