Bates Field Airport 1946

Bates Field (now Mobile Regional Airport) in Mobile photographed in 1946. The facility had been used by the 533rd Army Air Force Base Unit for airplane and glider training during World War II.

A 1946 photograph of an airfield and hangar with 3 airplanes
Courtesy of the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library; photograph by Cammie East
A 1946 photograph of an airfield and hangar with 3 airplanes