Citation: Parachute department of Dale Mabry Field: Tallahassee, Florida. 1943. Courtesy of the Florida State Archives. https://fcit.usf.edu/wwii/warcomes/military/039.php, accessed April 6, 2023.
Four photographs taken from Dale Mabry Field, including British, Chinese and American officers, nurses, and Sunday services.
Citation: Scenes from Dale Mabry Field - Tallahassee, Florida. 1943 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/26934, accessed 6 April 2023.
The following object description information includes basic elements from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI). An additional notes field is included to list dates from the actual letter, envelope postmark locations, and any other identifying details.
Notes – Handwritten letter dated June 18, 1943, two pages. Includes envelope, postmarked June 19, 1943, 11Am, from Dale Mabry Field, Tallahassee, Fla.
Citation: Portrait of Captain Dale Mabry - Tallahassee, Florida. 1922 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/24730, accessed 6 April 2023.
In 1940, Tallahassee was selected to be the site of a major fighter pilot training base and millions of dollars were invested into the airport and airbase infrastructure. Imagine the period of 1940 -1945, when Tallahassee was a military town, and Dale Mabry Army Air Field (Dale Mabry AAF), “a city onto itself,” came to fruition.
Imagine planes dotting the sky, explosions from training exercises echoing and thousands of men and women in uniform walking the streets. Imagine how connected to the war effort Tallahasseans must have felt, how vital, and how comforted by their presence as German U-boats lurked in the Gulf.
Citation: Wells, Chuck. “Remembering Dale Mabry and His Tallahassee Legacy - 100 Years after Roma's Fiery, Tragic End.” Tallahassee Democrat. Tallahassee Democrat, February 22, 2022. https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2022/02/22/dale-mabry-tallahassee-legacy-field-military-airport-segregation-capital-air-force/6880952001/.
See also: http://www.dmaaf.org/
In this news piece by reporter Brandon Spencer, Dale Mabry Army Airfield Museum CEO Chuck Wells shares some of the history of Dale Mabry Army Air Field, which is now the site of Tallahassee Community College. In Nov. 2016, military explosives experts were called in to detonate a World War II bomb uncovered on Madison Street, where construction workers found it entangled in the roots of a tree. Members of the Air Force dug a 14-foot hole to bury the bomb and covered it with sandbags before detonating it. Read the full story by clicking this link: "Tallahassee expert speaks on the history of the Dale Mabry Army Airfield"
Citation: Spencer, Brandon. "Tallahassee expert speaks on the history of the Dale Mabry Army Airfield." 2022. WCTV. Retrieved April 6, 2023. https://www.wctv.tv/2022/07/21/tallahassee-expert-speaks-history-dale-mabry-army-airfield/