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To: DFG

Another error the author made was calling it the Air Force. In WW II it was the Army Air Corps.


4 posted on 10/07/2016 5:26:58 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary's screeching voice is like the pipe organs of hell)
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To: COBOL2Java

:: In WW II it was the Army Air Corps ::

Within which my father-in-law served...may God rest his soul.


7 posted on 10/07/2016 5:30:26 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Global warming is the number-one cause of climate change documentaries.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Technically it became the US Army Air Forces from June, 1941, the United States Air Force in 1947.


15 posted on 10/07/2016 5:37:40 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: COBOL2Java

In 1941 the Army Air Corps became the AAF—Army Air FORCE.


45 posted on 10/07/2016 6:44:03 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: COBOL2Java
Another error the author made was calling it the Air Force. In WW II it was the Army Air Corps.

That was the case until 9 March 1942, when the aviation arms of the US Army were unified and became the US Army Air Forces (USAAF).
54 posted on 10/07/2016 7:47:17 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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