West Woodward Airport

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. West Woodward Airport (IATA: WWR, ICAO: KWWR) is a general aviation airport, located 6 miles west of the City of Woodward, Oklahoma downtown business district. The airfield was built by the United States Army Air Forces in the fall of 1942 and early 1943 as an aircrew training field. Opened in March 1943 during World War II, the facility was known as Woodward Army Airfield and was assigned to the Second Air Force. In the fall of 1943, the 409th Bombardment Group trained at the airfield with Douglas A-20 Havocs before being assigned overseas to the Ninth Air Force in England. The 408th Fighter-Bomber Group trained at the airfield with a variety of aircraft (A-24, A-26, P-40, and P-47) in the spring of 1944.