Forbes Field Air National Guard Base
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![Topeka Army Airfield, oblique airphoto, 10 October 1943](/Images/godic/202501/13/1943_Topeka_Army_Airfield_Kansas5016.jpg")
![Postcard of front gate, Forbes AFB. Note the Tactical Air Command shield on the gate guard shack](/Images/godic/202501/13/Forbes_AFB_postcard_-_mid_1960s5016.jpg")
Forbes Field, previously Forbes Air Force Base, is a joint-use civil-military airport operated by the Topeka Airport Authority located approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Topeka, Kansas. Topeka Army Air Field was opened in 1942; unused for a period after the war; reactivated in 1948; renamed Forbes Air Force Base on June 10, 1949 or July 13, 1949; and redesignated a National Guard base in 1973.