Eagle Mountain Lake MCAS Auxiliary (Rhome Field)

Rhome Field was established near Aurora in late 1942 as an outlying landing strip supporting the Eagle Mountain Lake Marine Corps Air Station, where the military experimented with amphibious troop gliders such as the Waco CG-4A. American glider pilots trained under the program later took part in operations including the recapture of the northern Philippines, and by war's end the United States had built more than 14,000 gliders and trained over 6,000 pilots. After the war the site passed to the U.S. Navy, which tested early radio-controlled drones at the Eagle Mountain Lake facility while the Aurora field was abandoned. The Texas Historical Commission marked the site in 2017.

Sources: hmdb.org