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The Army Air Corps Act of 1926 set certain reforms as part of a five-year program to expand and improve the aviation arm of the Army. The U.S. Army Air Service would have its name changed to the U.S. Army Air Corps, to reflect its new role as a combatant military force.
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 ...
The Gallet Flight Officer Chronograph (1939), commissioned by Harry S Truman's senatorial staff for issue to flight officers and pilots of the US Army Air Forces during WWII. Flight officer was a United States Army Air Forces rank used during World War II, from 1942 to 1945; [1] the rank being created on 10 September 1942. [2]
Soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, in recognition of importance of the role of the Army Air Forces, Arnold was given a seat on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the planning staff that served as the focal point of American strategic planning during the war, in order that the United States would have an air ...
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United States Army (Army Air Forces, 7 July 1943 – 17 September 1947; Army Air Corps 23 January 1942 – 7 July 1943) Type: Major Command: Role "Recruit, train and educate Airmen to deliver airpower for America" [2] Size: 69,989 Airmen 1,395 aircraft [3] Headquarters: Randolph Air Force Base, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, U.S. Nickname(s ...
The Army's Force management model [3]: diagram on p.559 begins with a projection of the Future operating environment, in terms of resources: political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical environment, and the time available to bring the Current army to bear on the situation.
The command was established on 8 July 1940 by the Office of the Chief of Air Corps, as part of the expansion of the training department of the Air Corps.After the Fall of France in May 1940, the United States began rapidly expanding its military forces, and with the large numbers of men entering the military, the training requirements of the Air Corps were drastically expanded.