United States Army Air Forces
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The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and the de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II (1941-1947). It was created on 20 June 1941 as successor to the United States Army Air Corps and is the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force. The AAF became the first air organization of the U.S. Army to control its own installations and support personnel, and its peak size during World War II was over 2.4 million men and women in service and nearly 80,000 aircraft by 1944, operating from more than 1,600 airfields worldwide by V-E Day. It remained part of the Army until the post-war defense reorganization that created the independent U.S. Air Force.
Fought in World War II Wikipedia
Sub-units 3
- Army XX Bomber Command
- Air unit Chinese-American Composite Wing (Provisional)
- Air unit 87th Fighter Wing
People who served 3
Strength and losses
Movements
- July 7, 1937 – September 2, 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
- December 7, 1941 – September 2, 1945 Pacific War
- December 29, 1941 – May 6, 1942 Battle of Corregidor
- June 4–7, 1942 Battle of Midway
- May 12 – June 3, 1943 Battle of West Hubei
- June 21 – July 11, 1943 Operation Animals
- April 17 – December 10, 1944 Operation Ichi-Go
- June 17–19, 1944 Invasion of Elba
- August 1 – October 2, 1944 Warsaw Uprising
- August 11, 1944 Operation Boomerang
- August 16 – November 24, 1944 Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou
- November 5, 1944 – May 24, 1945 Bombing of Singapore (1944–1945)