To honor the men and women who flew and trained at Luke Field, Arizona, during World War II.

POWs

Research into the 8479 cadet names contained in the 22 Class Books initially loaded at lukefieldaz.com resulted in 396 airmen who became Prisoners of War (POW), according to the National Archives’ Honor Records of World War II Prisoners of War.

Multiple Service numbers (#) indicate the first one is probably the cadet’s Army Enlistment number; if the number starts with T- it is their Flight Office Service number; if the number starts with O- it is their Officer Service number (some source use an A instead of an O-).

Some cadets took more than one class to complete their training. Their graduation class is listed first. There were many reasons why a cadet might not finish with his initial class. The most likely cause was due to illness or injury.

The dates are in a year, month, day sequence, i.e., yyyymmdd. Thus, 14 July 1944 would be 19440714.

SOURCES: Luke Field Class Books; National Archives’ Honor Records of World War II Prisoners of War https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=644&bc=,sl; National Archives WWII Army Enlistment records https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=3360&cat=WR26&bc=,sl;