Gerstner Field is a former World War I military airfield, located 11.1 miles southeast of Lake Charles, Louisiana. It operated as a training field for the Air Service, United States Army between 1917 until 1919. The airfield was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established in 1917 after the United States entry into World War I.
Gerstner Field was named for 2d Lieutenant Fredrick J. Gerstner , who died in an airplane crash, 31 December 1914. Lieutenant Gerstner was born in Michigan and was appointed to West Point in 1909. On graduating in 1913 he was assigned to the Tenth Cavalry and in 1914 he was assigned to the aviation school at Rockwell Field, San Diego, California. He was killed when his plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Oceanside, California, drowning while participating as a passenger in the annual Mackay Trophy contest.
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