Great Bend Army Airfield, Former military airfield in Great Bend, Kansas, United States.

Great Bend Army Airfield was a World War II training facility featuring three concrete runways each measuring 8,000 feet in length and over 200 buildings designed to support B-29 Superfortress bomber operations.

The site was chosen in July 1942 after a proposal by citizens of Great Bend and Hoisington, and the first officer, Capt. Theodore C. Reid, reported on 18 January 1943. Assigned to the 21st Bombardment Wing, it trained the 444th Bombardment Group, which left for overseas in April 1944, then the 498th, 19th and 333d groups. Shortages of B-29s forced trainees to use B-17Es, B-17Fs and B-26Cs at first.

The 58th Bombardment Wing, formed partly from Great Bend's cadre, was the first B-29 combat wing of World War II and began long-range strategic bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands in June 1944 from bases in India. The field's wartime population grew from 13 officers and 182 enlisted men in March 1943 to 6,409 personnel by 31 January 1945.

The site lies 5.6 miles west-southwest of Great Bend, Kansas, and has served as Great Bend Municipal Airport since the military field closed in 1946. Three concrete runways, each 8,000 feet long and 150 feet wide, were laid for B-29s, with a parking apron a mile long and 450 feet wide. Most buildings were Theater of Operations construction; the station hospital, theater, chapel and Link training buildings were of the Mobilization type.

The airfield's most unusual wartime role was as a processing base: the 5th Heavy Bombardment Processing Unit arrived on 1 July 1943 and was redesignated the 73d Bombardment Operational Training Wing that August, before its personnel and bases passed to the 58th Bombardment Wing in October. Training was slowed for months because B-29s were scarce, so groups flew B-17Es, B-17Fs and B-26Cs instead.