Air Corps Gunnery School Mugs

This is an exact, and meticulously detailed reproduction of the Historic Air Corps Gunnery School T-Shirt that was worn by Corporal Alexander Le Gerda on the Cover of Life Magazine in July of 1942. This iconic design helped to popularise the Graphic T-Shirt, and was issued to GI's attending the Air Corps Gunnery School in Las Vegas Nevada during WWII. The design was originally printed on a White T-shirt.

A distressed reproduction of the very first graphic tee, featured in a 1942 issue of LIFE magazine!

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In October 1940, Maj. David Schlatter, of the U.S. Army Air Corps, surveyed several areas in Utah, Arizona and Nevada looking for a site to locate the first flexible aerial gunnery school. He was particularly interested in Nevada since about 90 percent of the area north, northwest and northeast of Las Vegas was desert wasteland. On Jan. 25, 1941, Las Vegas Mayor John L. Russell signed over the property to the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps for the development of the flexible gunnery school. The mission of the new school, the Las Vegas Army Air Corps Gunnery School (located on the new Las Vegas Army Air Field), was defined as "training of aerial gunners to the degree of proficiency that will qualify them for combat duty."

Perfect for Army Air Corps veterans, war gamers, helicopter model kit builders and military aviation enthusiasts. Also makes a cool Army Air Corps gift at Christmas and birthdays.

Perfect for Army Air Corps veterans, war gamers, helicopter model kit builders and military aviation enthusiasts. Also makes a cool Army Air Corps gift at Christmas and birthdays.

Perfect for Army Air Corps veterans, war gamers, helicopter model kit builders and military aviation enthusiasts. Also makes a cool Army Air Corps gift at Christmas and birthdays.

Vintage Las Vegas Army Air Field Gunnery School Horned Toad Mascot

Perfect for paratroopers, 664 Para Squadron veterans and British military history enthusiasts. Also makes a cool No. 664 Squadron AAC gift at Christmas and birthdays.

An exact and meticulously accurate reproduction of the Historic Air Corps Gunnery School T that was worn by Corporal Alexander Le Gerda on the Cover of Life Magazine in July of 1942. This iconic design helped to popularize and launch the Graphic T,

A July 1941 attempt at establishing a bombardier school at Lowry Field, Colorado. 3 instructor classes with the last graduating 14 March 1941, was replaced by schools at Barksdale Field, Louisiana (moved to Albuquerque) and Ellington Field, Texas to a navigator school.) In June 1942, several classes of cadets were sent for bombardier training at Davis-Monthan Field, Arizona. Bombardier schools of the Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center and the West Coast Air Corps Training Center included the GCACTC's Big Spring Army Air Force Bombardier School. Its "first class of cadets (118 men) arrived Sept. 16, 1942". The first bombardier training class (42-17) at San Angelo Army Airfield began in September 1942, and San Angelo's 34th Flying T...

A Bombardier School was a United States Army Air Forces facility that used bombing ranges for training aircrew. After ground simulator training with the Norden bombsight, the 12- to 18-week course recorded each student's scores for approximately 160 practice bomb drops of "Bomb Dummy Units" (BDU), both in daytime and at night. The elimination rate was 12%, and graduates transferred to a Second or Third Air Force training unit to join a crew being trained for overseas duty. The bombardier trainer used was the Beech AT-11 Kansan With the Bradley Plan increase in Eighth Air Force aircrews needed for the Combined Bomber Offensive, the 17 Army Air Forces Bombardier Schools graduated 47,236

The Army Air Corps were looking for a perfect location for a training base since the ’30s and ultimately found it in Las Vegas, Nevada. The initial base was nothing but a dirt runaway, but after a complete buildup, the base was officially opened in 1941 when the first unit – the 79th Air Base Group – arrived there. The base population doubled within a month, representing a fulminating start. By the time of the attacks over Pearl Harbor, the base hosted not more than 27 planes. Almost 1000 troops – both co-pilots and gunnery experts – graduated from the base at every 5 weeks.