 EATS training was put on hold in January 1942, following the outbreak of war in the Pacific, but resumed the next month. Owing to urgent requirements to house other RAAF units and elements of the United States Army Forces in Australia (USAFIA), No. 2 EFTS was disbanded on 31 March 1942, and its operations transferred to No. 5 Elementary Flying School at Narromine, New South Wales, and No. 11 Elementary Flying School at Benalla, Victoria. By the time it closed, No. 2 EFTS had trained 806 EATS students, 610 of whom had gone on to SFTSs.
