Anderson Field / Walterboro Army Air Field

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This airfield, the first in Colleton County, was built and dedicated in 1933 on 60 acres leased to the town of Walterboro by the estate of C.C. Anderson, foe whom it was named. By 1937 the town purchased ...

Walterboro Army Air Field

"We were prisoners, but (we weren't made to) feel like prisoners. We were just people waiting to go back home"

- Helmut Ulbricht, German POW, Walterboro Army Air Field, 1945.The Press and Standard, 1994.

Two Hundred and fifty German prisoners of war ...

Walterboro Army Airfield

" Both white and negro troops will be stationed there, with negro troops to constitute about ten percent of the total personnel." - The Press and Standard, 1942

" A network of army air fields, used for training purposes and ...

Walterboro Army Airfield

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Walterboro Army Airfield

In the late 1920's and 1930's, a rough landing strip was made on the farm of C.C. Anderson just outside Walterboro. Starting in 1941, as part of the World War II effort,The U.S. Government acquired the ...