Coolidge Air Force Base was an American military air base on the island of Antigua that operated from 1941 until 1948. It later reopened as Coolidge International Airport and is now known as V. C. Bird International Airport. The airport was built as a United States Army Air Forces base during World War II and named Coolidge Airfield after Capt. Hamilton Coolidge (1895–1918), a United States Army Air Service pilot killed in World War I.[citation needed] Flying units assigned to the airfield were:[citation needed]