Selman Field Navigator Memorial

The war ended the cadets' schedule almost overnight. From September 1, 1945 the field served as a separation center for returning overseas personnel instead of training navigators. The Army Air Forces inactivated Selman on May 31, 1946, and the airfield went back to civil control on July 31 of that year. In 1948 the former Officer's Club found a new use, hosting the Saturday-night country show that grew into the Twin City Jamboree. The club building is now part of the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 0.6 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 1.3 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.
• Masur Museum of Art — 4.3 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 5.1 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.

More markers nearby

• Selman Field — steps away
• Claire Lee Chennault — 0.6 mi
• OH-6 Cayuse Helicopter — 0.6 mi
• Ivory Joe Hunter — 1.8 mi