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Madras Army Airfield served as a training facility for World War II pilots The population of Madras almost doubled with the influx of military personnel The United States involvement in World War II led to a need for combat training of Army Air Force pilots and crews. Training operations were scattered throughout most of the West in isolated regions. In January of 1943, the Army Air Force announced that the war effort would include a training base in Madras. The Air Force ordered plans to build two hangars to support the combat training of air crews, primarily for the Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress bombers. It was established as a training facility for the 318th Squadron of the 88th Bombing Group of the Second Air Force. ....
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week, in my article about the book ‘The Colonial Landmarks of Mysuru’ by Gauri Satya, my historian friend, I had made a reference to a most imposing but almost unknown monument built by Dewan Poornaiah to honour his patron Josiah Webbe of the Madras Council, at the spot very close to Srirangapatna, where a mutiny by British soldiers was crushed by the forces loyal to the Crown. There is another very intriguing structure that once stood in Srirangapatna that astounded all those who were lucky enough to lay their eyes or set their feet on it but which has now almost disappeared from view. Only a handful old-timers who are alive and bound to be in their nineties now, may have seen it in its original form which it lost when it collapsed, in the year 1938. ....