FReeper Canteen ~ The United States Army Air Corps ~ 02 July 2015

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[Kathy in Alaska]

2 July 1926 -- 9 March 1942

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~ United States Army Air Corps ~

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Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, that the Act entitled "An act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and other purposes," approved June 3, 1916, as amended, be, and the same is hereby, amended so that the Air Service referred to in that Act and all subsequent Acts of Congress shall be known as the Air Corps. Public Law 69-446, 2 July 1926

The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the statutory administrative forerunner of the United States Air Force. Renamed from the earlier United States Army Air Service on 2 July 1926, it was part of the larger United States Army and the immediate predecessor of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), established on 20 June 1941. Although discontinued as an administrative echelon in 1942 during World War II, the Air Corps (AC) remained as one of the combat arms of the Army until 1947, when it was legally abolished by legislation establishing a United States Department of Defense consisting of a Department of the Army (formerly the War Department), Department of the Navy and Department of the Air Force.

The Air Corps was renamed by the United States Congress largely as a compromise between the advocates of a separate air arm and those of the traditionalist Army high command who viewed the aviation arm as an auxiliary branch to support the ground forces. Although its members worked to promote the concept of air power and an autonomous air force between 1926 and 1941, its primary purpose by Army policy remained support of ground forces rather than independent operations.

On 1 March 1935, still struggling with the issue of a separate air arm, the Army activated the General Headquarters Air Force for centralized control of aviation combat units within the continental United States, separate from but coordinate with the Air Corps. The separation of the Air Corps from control of its combat units caused problems of unity of command that became more acute as the Air Corps enlarged in preparation for World War II. This was resolved by the creation of the Army Air Forces, making both organizations became subordinate to the new higher echelon.

The Air Corps ceased to have an administrative structure after 9 March 1942, but as "the permanent statutory organization of the air arm, and the principal component of the Army Air Forces," the overwhelming majority of personnel assigned to the AAF were members of the Air Corps

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[Jet Jaguar]

Courtesy ping.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Janey...((HUGS))

Awesome that you could “host” the viewing.

[mountainlion]

I met a guy that did the test flights of the Corsair with the upgrades big engines to outrun the Zeros. He said he could take off and be upside down over the airstrip at 1000 feet. I can barely imagine that. I also met a pilot that had the record for 283 missions flown by a fighter pilot in Vietnam. Normal guys put in extraordinary circumstances.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Ms Feather...*hugs*...any gathering for Independence Day?

We will be very quiet. Fireworks in the city are illegal, and the last I heard the BIG fireworks display after the midnight double header baseball game has cancelled.

Fires burning all over the state, most from lightning.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Publius...((HUGS))...our thanks to your father for his service to our country.

[yarddog]

I got to meet this old guy at a historical meeting is South Georgia. He was around 90 but still sharp and charismatic. He could also still tell a great story. General Robert L. Scott who wrote "God Is My Co-Pilot" along with 12 other books. A member of the Flying Tigers and a quadruple ace.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Colorado tanker, and thank you for the additional information.

Hap Arnold Wings

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, yarddog...what a wonderful person to be able to meet.

I can just imagine the stories he could tell.

[Kathy in Alaska]

In first....The Mayor grabs the gold!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

And in second....Pro snags the silver!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

And rounding out the top three....Sand bags the bronze!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

My bad...I should have pinged him up front.

Good evening, JJ...((HUGS))

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, mountainlion....those test pilots were something else. What a job...trying to see if it works, knowing that if it didn’t, things could be REALLY bad.

You’ve met some really cool folks.

[left that other site]

I have flown some of those (1930’s biplane, 1942 T-6, 19365 Taylorcraft)

The T-6 was my favorite, even if i had to wear a parachute.

[yarddog]

He really could tell them too. One story of was when he was in Panama before the war and he shot a bunch of huge sharks using a Bell P-39.

The sharks washed up on shore and began to stink to high heaven. The commander never did figure out who did it.

He also told of how after the was or near the end of it, he was forbidden the bombing and strafing of certain bridges because Chairman Mao wanted them left. It was clear to him that the powers that be in Washington were supporting the Communists while pretending to support Chang Kai Sheck.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Alaska Command, Army Air Corps

[Kathy in Alaska]

B-17s interception of Rex...1st LT Curtis LeMay, navigator

The interception of the Rex was a training exercise and military aviation achievement of the United States Army Air Corps prior to World War II. The tracking and location of an ocean-going vessel by B-17 Flying Fortresses on 12 May 1938 was a major event in the development of a doctrine that led to a United States Air Force independent of the Army. The mission was ostensibly a training exercise for coastal defense of the United States, but was conceived by planners to be a well-publicized demonstration of the capabilities of "heavy bombers (as) long range instruments of power".

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))

I must leave for an appointment. Back later.

[left that other site]

Appointment???...oh yeah...Pacific Time! LOL!