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To: ansel12

There was a reason why the Air Force became a separate branch in 1947. Here’s a hint, the Air Force was always “separate” from the infantry. Vastly different roles. Over 60,000 Airman lost their lives in WW2. Liberals have also had the brilliant idea of getting rid of the Navy. The nation that controls the seas and the nation that controls the air wins wars. Infantry can’t do it alone. Rapid demobilization of forces immediately after World War II, although sharply reducing the size of the Army Air Forces, left untouched the nucleus of the postwar United States Air Force (USAF). A War Department letter of March 21, 1946, created two new commands and redesignated an existing one: Continental Air Forces was redesignated Strategic Air Command, and the resources of what had been Continental Air Forces were divided among Strategic Air Command and the two newcomers - Air Defense Command and Tactical Air Command. These three commands and the older Air Transport Command represented respectively the strategic, tactical, defense, and airlift missions that provided the foundation for building the postwar, independent Air Force.


190 posted on 03/17/2014 8:33:50 PM PDT by NKP_Vet ("To be deep in history is to cease being Protestant" - John Henry Cardinal Newman)
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To: NKP_Vet

Who knows what in the heck you are talking about, or why you keep posting simple posts with such fervor.

Right, we understand aviation is different from infantry, it was during the almost 40 years the Army was the Air force including WWI and WWII, and it was when those 50,000 Army Air people were dying in WWII and 60,000 going missing and being captured, and it is the same with the massive Army Aviation Forces that we have today, and in Vietnam etc.

It’s as though this stuff is brand new to you and you think that it is all new to us as well.


195 posted on 03/17/2014 8:47:42 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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