[LS]

Not in WW II. No "Air Force" until after the war. Technically, it was the "Army Air Force," but that was too long to put in.

[jackbill]

Not in WW II. No "Air Force" until after the war. Technically, it was the "Army Air Force," but that was too long to put in.

I don't believe that you understand the distinction. The "Mighty Eighth" was always, even in WWII, referred to as the Eighth Air Force. During WWII it was officially the Eighth Air Force of the Army Air Corps.

[jackbill]

Let me make a correction to my #61. The unit was originally the 8th Air Force of the U. S. Army Air Corps, then the 8th Air Force of the U.S. Army Air Force, then the 8th Air Force of the U. S. Air Force.

It was never the 8th Army. The Eighth Army was activated in June 1944 at Memphis, Tennessee. During WWII, the "Amphibious Eighth" made fifty-two beach assaults on islands across the pacific, each one a D-day in miniature.

It remained in the Pacific during the Korean War. I know because I served in it in 1952 in Korea.