Eberts Field
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For the former baseball stadium in Brooklyn, see Ebbets Field. For the softball field in Michigan, see Ebert Field.
Eberts Field is a former military airfield, located 1.4 miles (2.3 km) northwest of Lonoke, Arkansas. The airfield was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established in 1917 after the United States entry into World War I.[1]
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Eberts Field | |
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Lonoke, Arkansas | |
Coordinates | 34°47′43″N 091°55′09″W |
Type | Army Airfield |
Site information | |
Controlled by | Air Service, United States Army United States Army Air Forces |
Condition | Aquaculture, rural housing, farming |
Site history | |
Built | 1917 |
In use | 1917–1945 |
Battles/wars | World War I World War II – American Campaign |
Garrison information | |
Garrison | Training Section, Air Service (World War I) Army Air Force Training Command (World War I) |
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It operated as a training field during World War I for the Air Service, United States Army between 1917 until 1919. The airfield was also used as a contract glider training airfield during World War II by the United States Army Air Forces, being closed in 1943.
Today the land is used in aquaculture.