AAC Boca Raton Officer's Club

This is a painted BRAAF (RADAR School) Emblem on a board, at the enterance to the Officer's Club. "As the Army Air Force’s only radar training station during World War II, the Boca Raton base grew to eight hundred buildings with a troop strength of more than 16,000. Over nine million dollars was spent constructing the facility and an average of 1,200 civilians worked on the base. Instruction courses for airborne radar operators, mechanics and electronic officers meant an ever increasing need for flight training and for aircraft. By 1945, one hundred planes were regularly assigned to the field. Although most were medium bombers like the B-17, in the last year of the war the B-29 was brought in for training procedures in radar bombing. B-29’s carried the atomic bombs which were dropped on Japan."(www.bocaairport.com/history)