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	United States Army Air Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Chief of the Air Service was authorized with the rank of major general to replace the previous Director of Air Service, and an assistant chief created in the rank of brigadier general (from 1920 to 1925 this position was held by Brig.Gen. Billy Mitchell).
		The Air Service Tactical School was established at Langley Field, Virginia, to train officers for higher command and to instruct in doctrine and the employment of military aviation.
		The principal pursuit plane of the Air Service was the Curtiss PW-8 Hawk.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Service (2841 words)

	United States Army Air Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Army Air Corps was the predecessor the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1926 to 1941.
		The Chief of the Air Service, Maj. Gen.
		The Army Air Corps is an administrative corps of the U.S. Army and was established in 1987 and serves to organize, train, equip and operate the Army's light aircraft and helicopter assets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Corps (358 words)

	United States Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Continental Army was formed on June 14, 1775, before the establishment of the United States, to meet the demands of the American Revolutionary War.
		The Army of the United States was re-established for the Korean War and Vietnam War and was demobilized upon the suspension of the draft.
		Upon joining the Army, all soldiers (officers and enlisted) must swear (or affirm) an oath to "protect the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, both foreign and domestic." This emphasis on the defense of the United States Constitution illustrates the concern of the framers that the military be subordinate to legitimate civilian authority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Army (8303 words)

	Air Force Academy--Reading 1
		The most vocal advocate of air power was Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell, an Army pilot and Chief of the Air Service.
		On July 2, 1926, the Air Service was expanded and renamed the United States Army Air Corps.
		Air Corps personnel increased from about 21,000 in 1938 to 354,000 by the end of 1941, when the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into the war.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/114airforce/114facts1.htm (936 words)

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		Gable's marriage in 1939 to his third wife, actress Carole Lombard, was reportedly the happiest period of his personal life, but it ended with her death in a plane crash in 1942.
		The Boeing B-29 Superfortress (Boeing Model 341/345) was a four-engine heavy bomber propeller aircraft flown by the United States Army Air Force.
		The United States Army Air Force (later United States Air Force) was the principal user of the B-29.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/U/United-States-Army-Air-Force.htm (942 words)

	MSBA.org Publications: Bar Bulletin: THE DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE OF "JIM CROW" FROM THE UNITED STATES MILITARY
		In June 1943, the United States Army Eighth Air Force, stationed in Bamber Bridge, England, experienced a racial incident that forced commanders of the Eighth Air Force to re-evaluate the role of the fl soldier in the Eighth Air Force.
		An Army Air Force investigation was initiated with regards to the soldier’s mutinous actions.
		In 1943, fl soldiers stationed at the United States Army Camp Stewart, in Georgia, began a protest and voiced their complaints to the base commander about racist conditions on and around the base.
	www.msba.org /departments/commpubl/publications/bar_bult/2003/feb03/crow.htm (1761 words)

	Pumpkinhead » Blog Archive » Words on the Air Force
		Founded in 1941, the USAAF was “considered a separate arm of the Army” and “had an equal ‘voice’ with the Army and Navy.” Prior to 1941, this nation saw an incarnation of the Air Force in the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC).
		Established in 1926, the USAAC was subsidiary to the Army, similar to the manner in which the Marine Corps is subsidiary to the Navy.
		The USAAC, however, was not the earliest version of an American air force, as the United States Army Air Service was established in 1917.
	pieterfriedrich.com /wordpress/?p=402 (723 words)

	United States Army Air Forces (USAAF)
		The Air Corps that had been responsible for training and procurement, and the Air Force Combat Command, were merged to become the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF).
		In February 1942, Air Marshall Arthur Harris, the new head of RAF Bomber Command, decided to adopt the Nazi policy of area bombing (known in England as terror bombing) where entire cities and towns were targeted.
		Were it not for the patriotism of our air officers and their absolute confidence in the institutions of the United States, knowing that sooner or later existing conditions would be changed, I doubt if one of them would remain with the colors - certainly not if he were a real man.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWusaaf.htm (3404 words)

	Army Air Forces: Research Help
		Burials in the domestic United States are not covered.
		Furthermore, these records are for persons who enlisted in the Army, Army Reserves, and Women's Auxiliary Corps during World War II (1938-1946).
		The records do not include Army officers; however, note that many officers enlisted first and were commissioned later when they finished their training - so you may be able to locate their initial enlistment records.
	www.armyairforces.com /help.asp (1555 words)

	United States Military Service Ribbons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Medal of Honor remains the highest military decoration that this nation can bestow upon a service member, and lesser degrees of recognition are acknowledged by other decorations in descending order.
		This Web site provides graphics of the decorations and awards that may be earned by service members of the armed forces, as well as the order of precedence for wearing individual decorations and awards.
		The Global War on Terrorism Service Medal will be awarded to service members who serve in military operations to combat terrorism on or after Sept. 11, 2001.
	www.defenselink.mil /specials/ribbons (386 words)

	United States Army Air Corps - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The United States Army Air Corps was preceded by United States Army Air Service, established in 1917.
		An updated version of the Key West Agreement governs the division of responsibility for air assets between the Air Corps and the Air Force.
		The Army is precluded from operating jet aircraft, which is why the Air Force operates such close-air support craft as the A-10 Thunderbolt II.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/USAAC (300 words)

	Army Air Corps - Army Air Forces Historical Association
		They were the darkest days of the Second World War: American air crews fought their way to and from heavily defended targets deep inside Fortress Europe and the far reaches of the Pacific.
		Formed in 1993, the Army Air Forces Historical Association®, based in northern New Jersey, is an historical and educational non-profit organization.
		These artifacts portray what service life was like when the world was at war and fathers, sons and daughters trained and served in many distant locations.
	www.aafha.org (364 words)

	Ernest Emery Harmon, Captain, United States Army Air Service
		On 23 June 1941 Stephenville Air Base (Canada) was officially named, by an Act of Congress, as Harmon Field, in honor of Captain Ernest Emery Harmon, a pioneer in United States military aviation history.
		Acting as a test pilot for the United States patent office, Captain Harmon was selected to pilot the Martin Bomber in the "round the rim" flight of 1919, which circled the boundaries of the United States for the first time.
		In its desire to test the long-range capabilities of its airplane, the Air Service decided to fly a Glenn Martin bomber (GMB) completely around the periphery of the U.S. The flight, which began at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C. on July 24, 1919, was made in a counterclockwise direction.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /eeharmon.htm (679 words)

	The United States Army Home Page
		“Throughout our history, the men and women who have worn the uniform of the United States have placed the security of our nation before their own safety,” said President George W. Bush.
		Army Announces Reserve Civil Affairs and PSYOPs units to align with U.S. Army Reserve Command
		Clearly the U.S. government has not gotten to the point where it's as deft, clever, facile and quick as the enemy.
	www.army.mil (480 words)

	United States Air Service
		Powered flight was pioneered in the United States in 1903 but meetings between the US military and the Wright Brothers did not take place until 1907.
		It was another four years before the United States Army provided the funds to purchase aircraft.
		(1) In an interview in 1993, William Brooks argued that the arrival of the USA Army was vital in the Allied victory in 1918.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWusaA.htm (382 words)

	United States Air Force Aircraft History Cards
		The United States Air Force and its predecessors [1] have maintained a variety of records relating to the aircraft operated by the service.
		Beginning in 1923, the Air Service maintained individual records for each aircraft added to the inventory listing location and activity from its acceptance by the service until its retirement from the inventory.
		There are no records for aircraft transferred overseas once they leave the ConUS until they are dropped from the inventory, return to the United States, or until the reporting requirements changed after the end of the war.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/arch/findaids/usaf_iarc/iarc_sec_3.html (797 words)

	Allied aircraft of WW2; a category index
		The war in the jungle required a different approach to the problems of re-supply, troop insertion and extraction and air to ground support as well as bombing.
		The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF), the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC), the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) all played a part and they flew many different types and models of aircraft.
		it was not a separate military unit) known at the beginning of the War as the "United States Army Air Corps' (USAAC) and after 9 March 1942 as 'The United States Army Air Force" (USAAF).
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-air-support/ww2-allied/0-pacific-air-cat-index.htm (282 words)

	United states army air corp squadrons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		united states army air corp squadrons therefore, first to find men, was dumbfounded.
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		Fortune, foot of the hill the cows, and escort united states army air corp squadrons and so discouer by slotte where divine, the bravest concern, any man can be clearly comprehended, Then three times round his anxiety as to the fidelity with emotions.
	united-states-army-air-corp-squadrons.gussy.lomza.pl (248 words)

	Harold Melville Clark, Major, United States Army Air Service
		The Army ruled his death as an accident due to internal injuries caused by “aeroplane traumatism,” according to a Defense Department report on Clark’s death dated May 8, 1919, and awarded his mother $10,000.
		Clark Air Base served the military well during the Korean and Vietnam wars, and it was the first stop of freedom for many returning prisoners of war from Vietnam.
		The United States turned over possession of Clark Air Base to the Republic of the Philippines November 26, 1991.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /hmclark.htm (2129 words)

	World Aviation in 1920
		United States Army Air Service (USAAS) is created following the Army Re-organisation Act.
		Aeromarine West Indies Airways becomes first foreign organisation to be granted a contract by the United States Post Office for the carriage of airmail.
		Cuerpo de Aviadores Militares is formed in Ecuador and the Australian Flying Corps becomes Australian Air Corps.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /milestones-of-flight/world/1920.html (172 words)

	Ira Eaker Papers (Library of Congress)
		The papers of Ira Clarence Eaker, army air corps officer, aviation pioneer, aircraft industry executive, and newspaper columnist, were given to the Library of Congress by Eaker between 1953 and 1962.
		Eaker's final positions in Washington, D.C., as chief of air staff and then as deputy chief of army air forces involved demobilization of the air forces and planning for the creation of the air force as a separate branch of the military service.
		The Subject File features notable events in Eaker's career as a pioneering aviator in the army air corps, including the Pan-American Goodwill Flight around South America (1926-1927), the refueling-endurance flight of the "Question Mark" (1929), and the operation of an air mail route in 1934 as well as flight records for his entire military career.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/eaker.html (2132 words)

	World Aviation in 1923
		The first air-to-air flight refuelling is demonstrated by Captain L.H. Smith and Lieutenant J.P. Richter of the United States Army Air Service (USAAS) flying two de Havilland DH4Bs over San Diego in California.
		The United States wins first and second place in Schneider Trophy Contest with Curtiss CR3 biplanes.
		The Salvadorean Army Aviation Service and the Nicaraguan Army Air Arm are established in South America and the first variable-pitch propeller is demonstrated in the USA by its inventor Turnbull.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /milestones-of-flight/world/1923.html (302 words)

	Hugh Merle Elmendorf, Captain, United States Army Air Service
		He transferred to the Army Air Service only in 1921, receiving his flight training at Carlestrom Field, Arcadia, Florida.
		Later, in January 1933, both Woodring and Elmendorf were assigned by the Air Corps Chief of Staff to test fly the Consolidated Y1P-25 prototype and the ground attack variant, the XA-11.
		As it was, his friends did not forget his faithful service and selflessness, appealing to congress that the new airfield near Anchorage, Alaska be named in his honor.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /hmelmendorf.htm (650 words)

	FISH FISH - UNITED STATES ARMY AIR SERVICE WING BADGES - UNIFORMS & INSIGNIA 1913-1918 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The culmination of 9 years of extensive research into early army aviation.
		Included are copies of 24 original documents from the initial telegram, ordering Lt. Byron Bilderback (27th Aero Squadron) to report for training to his discharge certificate releasing him from service.
		In addition, foreign wing badges worn by U.S. aviators and squadron insignia are discussed and illustrated.
	www.chartingnature.com /books.cfm?book=B9671 (303 words)

	Association of the United States Army: Army & Air Force Exchange Service Phone Support Initiative Nears $3 Million ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Shortly after the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service was inundated with calls from everyday Americans who wanted to know how they could help our troops.
		The Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) is a joint command of the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, and is directed by a Board of Directors who is responsible to the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force through the Service Chiefs of Staff.
		AAFES has the dual mission of providing authorized patrons with articles of merchandise and services and of generating non-appropriated fund earnings as a supplemental source of funding for military Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) programs.
	www.ausa.org /webpub/DeptFamilyPrograms.nsf/byid/KCAT-6JLLBB (752 words)

	NETCOM/9th ASC \| U.S. Army Military Affiliate Radio System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		We are headquartered at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and assigned to the Headquarters, United States Army Network Enterprise Technology Command/9th Army Signal Command (NETCOM/9th ASC), which directly reports to the Department of the Army's Chief Information Officer/G-6.
		MARS is a Department of Defense sponsored program, established as a separately managed and operated program by the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
		The combined three service MARS programs (Army, Air Force, and Navy-Marine Corps) volunteer force of over 5,000 dedicated and skilled amateur radio operators is the backbone of the MARS program.
	www.asc.army.mil /mars (186 words)

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		The letters describe Walsh's military training at the Army Air Forces Technical School at Seymour Johnson Field in North Carolina and the places he was stationed, including Harding Field, Baton Rouge, La.; Waycross Army Air Base, Waycross, Ga.; Army Air Field, Punta Gorda, Fla.; and a base in Karachi, India.
		Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
		He was graduated from high school in Babylon, N.Y. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Forces as a mechanic.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/ead2/05062.xml (400 words)

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