Mustangs of the Sky: WWII Aviation

When the United States went to war in the 1940s, the prairie southwest of Dallas turned into an aviation factory town almost overnight. North American Aviation built combat planes here, the Army and Navy ran training fields, and the government threw up an experimental village to house the flood of defense workers who poured in to do the work. This driving loop follows that wartime boom across Grand Prairie: the prefab Avion Village, the airfields where pilots learned to fly and crews built and serviced warbirds, and the pioneer cemetery that had been here long before the first engine ever roared overhead. It's a tour about how a quiet farm community was swept up into the biggest war in history — and what it left behind when the war ended and the planes flew off.