(15 MILES SE OF HOUSTON)
This was the first school to open in the Gulf Coast Training Command, but was short-lived. It trained only one class of 26 bombardiers, which graduated on 20 December 1941 (along with two squadrons of advanced pilot trainees!!). the instructors at Ellington came from the first three classes of Lowry field graduates who were routed through Barksdale Field, Louisiana. The school was closed for several reasons, among them the marginal flying weather near the Gulf of Mexico and the long flying distance to the bombing range. The school ended its bombardier training early in 1942 and sent some of its personnel and cadets to Albuquerque (Kirtland Field) and to Midland Airport. It later served as a preflight school for bombardiers and navigators and eventually gave navigation training to graduate bombardiers.

Pictures of Ellington and more history.

For more information on Ellington Field, click here and here.

For a book on Ellington's history, Defender of America's Gulf Coast, A History of Ellington Airfield 1917 - 2007.