[jackbill]

From the Army Air Forces Historical Association:

1907 - Aeronautical Section of the Signal Corps.
1914 - Aviation Section (Signal Corps).
1918 - United States Army Air Service
1926 - United States Army Air Corps
1941 - United States Army Air Force
1947 - United States Air Force

[sheik yerbouty]

My father was a tail gunner, and he was in the habit of calling it the "8th Army Air Corps". My guess the term was used out of habit.