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  2. United States Army Air Forces - Wikipedia

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    While officially the air arm was the Army Air Forces, the term Air Corps persisted colloquially among the public as well as veteran airmen; in addition, the singular Air Force often crept into popular and even official use, reflected by the designation Air Force Combat Command in 1941–42.

  3. United States Army Air Corps - Wikipedia

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    On 20 June 1941, the Army Air Corps' existence as the primary air arm of the U.S. Army changed to that of solely being the training and logistics elements of the then-new United States Army Air Forces, which embraced the formerly-named General Headquarters Air Force under the new Air Force Combat Command organization for front-line combat ...

  4. Interservice rivalry - Wikipedia

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    Many military analysts consider the Wehrmacht, Nazi Germany's armed forces, as the pioneers of "jointness" (German: integrierter Kriegführung), pointing out that blitzkrieg, the war-fighting style that brought the Wehrmacht stunning victories between 1939 and 1941, depended upon the close integration of ground and air (and sometimes naval) forces and that even after the blitzkrieg campaigns ...

  5. United States Air Force - Wikipedia

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    The Air Force inherited warrant officer ranks from the Army at its inception in 1947. The Air Force stopped appointing warrant officers in 1959, [173] [174] the same year the first promotions were made to the new top enlisted grade, chief master sergeant. The remaining warrant officers were slowly phased out. [175] [176]

  6. List of comparative military ranks - Wikipedia

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    air forces (non-Commonwealth) Navies, coast guards: Air forces (Commonwealth system) General officers, Flag officers, Air officers; Field marshal: Admiral of the fleet: Marshal of the air force: General or colonel general or army general: Admiral: Air chief marshal: Lieutenant general or army corps general: Vice admiral: Air marshal: Major ...

  7. Air force - Wikipedia

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    The first aviation force in the world was the Aviation Military of the French Army formed in 1910, which eventually became l'Armée de l'Air. [citation needed] In 1911, during the Italo-Turkish War, Italy employed aircraft for the first time ever in the world for reconnaissance and bombing missions against Turkish positions on Libyan Territory.

  8. Organizational structure of the United States Department of ...

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    The Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defense. The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has a complex organizational structure.It includes the Army, Navy, the Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, the Unified combatant commands, U.S. elements of multinational commands (such as NATO and NORAD), as well as non-combat agencies such as the Defense Intelligence Agency ...

  9. Johnson-McConnell agreement of 1966 - Wikipedia

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    To the Air Force, this sounded suspiciously like the Army creating a tactical air force of its own. [4] The U.S. Air Force opposed the introduction of Caribou aircraft to Vietnam, arguing that the C-123 Provider could carry twice the payload over three times the distance.