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  2. List of United States Army Air Forces reconnaissance units

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    Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6 .

  3. United States Army Air Forces - Wikipedia

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    The Air Force Historical Studies Office summarizes the execution of USAAF strategy during World War II: [41] "Arnold's staff made the first priority in the war to launch a strategic bombing offensive in support of the RAF against Germany. The Eighth Air Force, sent to England in 1942, took on that job.

  4. 491st Bombardment Group - Wikipedia

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    Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556; Watkins, Robert (2008). Battle Colors: Insignia and Markings of the Eighth Air Force in World War II. Vol. I (VIII) Bomber Command.

  5. The Army Air Forces in World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Army Air Forces in World War II is a seven-volume work describing the actions of the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC), and from June 1941 the United States Army Air Forces (AAF) that succeeded it, between January 1939 and August 1945.

  6. Obsolete badges of the United States military - Wikipedia

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    After World War II many badges were phased out of the United States Armed Forces in favor of more modern military badges which are used today. A unique obsolete badge situation occurred with General of the Air Force Henry H. Arnold , who in 1913 was among the 24 Army pilots to receive the first Military Aviator Badge , an eagle bearing Signal ...

  7. USAAF unit identification aircraft markings - Wikipedia

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    In the upper circle was painted a geometric symbol in black denoting the wing, with a triangle for the 47th Bomb Wing, a square for the 55th, a diamond for the 304th, and a circle for the 49th. In practice that of the 49th, because of the type of stencil used, resembled the concentric ring bull's-eye of a target. The lower circle contained one ...

  8. 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Group - Wikipedia

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    Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016; Ivie, Tom. Patton's Eyes in the Sky: USAAF Combat Reconnaissance Missions North-West Europe 1944–45. Crowborough, UK: Classic Publications, 2003. ISBN 1-903223-26-1. Ivie, Tom. Aerial Reconnaissance: 10th Photo Recon Group in World War II. Fallbrook, California: Aero Publishers, Inc., 1981.

  9. United States Army Air Corps - Wikipedia

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    The Development of Air Doctrine in the Army Air Arm, 1917–1941 (PDF). Maxwell Air Force Base: (USAF Historical Study 89). Center For Air Force History. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2013; Griffith, Charles (1999). The Quest: Haywood Hansell and American Strategic Bombing in World War II.