ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO
With most of its training personnel arriving from Barksdale (and a few from Ellington Field), classes began at Kirtland on 6 December 1941. This first class, 42-3, graduated 61 Second Lieutenants on 7 March 1942. A total of 49 classes were graduated with the last, 45-8, receiving wings on 24 February 1945. The school was closed shortly there after, some five months before the end of hostilities. Thomas W. Ferebee, who dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. graduated with the second class at Kirtland, 42-4 on 21 March 1942.

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Units that served at Kirtland - Source: Mark Boland

• Hq and Hq Sq, 323rd Bombardier Training Group
• Hq and Hq Sq, 324th Bombardier Training Group
• 55th Bombardier Training Squadron
• 56th Bombardier Training Squadron
• 57th Bombardier Training Squadron
• 88th Bombardier Training Squadron
• 383rd Bombardier Training Squadron
• 384th Bombardier Training Squadron
• 3rd Base Hq and Air Base Squadron
• 871st Guard Squadron
• 31st AAF Band
• 3rd Sub Depot
• Det, 3rd Army Airways Communications Squadron
• Det, 3rd Weather Squadron
• Finance Detachment (AAFGCTC)
• Medical Detachment, Station Hospital (AAFGCTC)
• Veterinary Detachment (AAFGCTC)
• Det, 2053rd Ordnance Service Company (Aviation)
• Det, 909th Quartermaster Service Company (Aviation)
• Det, 858th Signal Service Company (Aviation)