United States Army Air Forces

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The United States Army Air Forces was the aerial warfare service component of the U.S. Army during World War II and the direct predecessor of the independent United States Air Force.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of the United States Army
military air service
alsoKnownAs Army Air Forces
U.S. Army Air Forces
USAAF
branchColor gold
ultramarine blue
commander Henry H. Arnold
commanderTitle Commanding General
component Air Transport Command
Army Air Forces Materiel Command
Army Air Forces Training Command
Eighth Air Force
Fifteenth Air Force
Fifth Air Force
Ninth Air Force
Seventh Air Force
Tenth Air Force
Thirteenth Air Force
Twelfth Air Force
Twentieth Air Force
conflict China-Burma-India Theater
European Theater of Operations
Pacific Theater of Operations
World War II
country United States of America
dissolvedOrAbolished 1947-09-18
endDate 1947-09-18
formedFrom United States Army Air Corps
garrison The Pentagon
headquartersLocation Washington, D.C.
legalBasis Executive Order 8873
War Department Circular 59 (1941)
mainBomberAircraft Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
Consolidated B-24 Liberator
mainFighterAircraft Lockheed P-38 Lightning
North American P-51 Mustang
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
motto None officially adopted
notableEvent atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
notableOperation strategic bombing campaign against Germany
strategic bombing campaign against Japan
partOf United States Army
peakAircraftStrength over 70,000 aircraft
peakPersonnelStrength over 2,000,000
predecessorOf United States Air Force
role aerial reconnaissance
aerial warfare
air defense
air transport
strategic bombing
tactical air support
startDate 1941-06-20
subordinateTo United States Army General Staff
War Department
successor United States Air Force

Referenced by (227)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Barry Goldwater
Camp Griffiss
Carl Spaatz
Charles Lindbergh ("United States Army Air Corps")
Charles Pearre Cabell
Chuck Yeager
Circle R
Clark Gable
Curtis LeMay
Elliott Roosevelt
Frank O’Driscoll Hunter
George C. Kenney
George Wallace
Gordon MacRae
Hap Arnold
Haywood S. Hansell
Howard Zinn
James H. Doolittle
James Roy Andersen
Jim Wright
John W. Wydler
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lewis H. Brereton
Luis Alvarez
Mark Felt
Merian C. Cooper
Mitchel Field complex
Mort Sahl
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
Norman Lear
Norman Lear
Operation Meetinghouse
Paul W. Tibbets Jr.
Robert McNamara
Slade Gorton
Ted Stevens
Theodore Van Kirk
Thomas Ferebee
Thornton Wilder
Uzal G. Ent
William H. Rehnquist
militaryBranch
Allied strategic bombers
Beauvais–Tillé Airport
Camp Griffiss
Circle R
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Henderson Field
Invasion of Tinian
Kunming
L.F. Wade International Airport ("United States Army Air Forces (historical)")
Little Boy
Mitchel Field complex
North American B-25B Mitchell
RAF Fairford
RAF Honington
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
Rolls-Royce Merlin
Supermarine Spitfire
The Hump
Tinian
Victor 82
Window (radar countermeasures)
de Havilland Mosquito
usedBy
Curt Gowdy
David Rose
Gary Merrill
Jack Ruby
Joe DiMaggio
John Ehrlichman
John M. Harlan II
Johnny Most
Marv Levy
Robert Altman
Tom Landry
Vic Raschi
Walter H. Shorenstein
Walter Netsch
William Wyler
militaryService
14th Air Force
23rd Fighter Group
509th Composite Group
Air Transport Command
Army Air Forces Training Command ("Army Air Forces")
China Air Task Force
Fifteenth Air Force
Ninth Air Force ("Army Air Forces")
Seventh Air Force
Thirteenth Air Force
Twelfth Air Force
Twentieth Air Force
United States Armed Forces in World War II
branch
Air Transport Command
Army Air Forces Training Command
China Air Task Force
Fifteenth Air Force
Ninth Air Force
Seventh Air Force
Tenth Air Force
Twelfth Air Force
Twentieth Air Force
partOf
B-29 Superfortress
Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
North American B-25B Mitchell
North American P-51 Mustang
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
primaryUser
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American Campaign Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Bockscar
Douglas A-26 Invader
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
North American B-25B Mitchell
Tenth Air Force ("Army Air Forces")
World War II Victory Medal
serviceBranch
Allied operations in Western Europe
Battle of Cape Gloucester
Borneo campaign (1945)
Chindits
Chinese Expeditionary Force
Invasion of Guam
Long Range Penetration Groups
Operation Cobra
supportedBy
44-86292
Bockscar
Enola Gay
Little Boy
Moffett Field, California ("United States Army Air Forces (historical)")
Operation Vittles
atomic bombing of Hiroshima
operator
Battle of El Alamein
Battle of Hamburg
Battle of Iwo Jima
Big Week
Operation Tidal Wave
Ploiești raid
belligerent
George C. Kenney
Theodore Van Kirk
Thomas Ferebee
Uzal G. Ent
employer
Bruce Cabot
Burgess Meredith
James Stewart
Mario Puzo
servedIn
United States Army Air Forces ("USAAF")
United States Army Air Forces ("U.S. Army Air Forces")
United States Army Air Forces ("Army Air Forces")
alsoKnownAs
Operation Gomorrah
Operation Meetinghouse
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
conductedBy
Allied Combined Operations Headquarters
Operation Postern
Philippines campaign (1941–1942)
involves
Carl Spaatz
James H. Doolittle
James Roy Andersen
memberOf
Defense of the Reich
JG 26
Tairiku Datsū Sakusen
opponent
Kammhuber Line
Luftwaffe
Operation Ichi-Go
opposedBy
Doolittle Raid
Operation Tidal Wave
Tokyo Raid
plannedBy
Truk Lagoon
Urakami district of Nagasaki
attackedBy
Jagdgeschwader 26
Royal Hungarian Air Force
engagedAgainst
Air War College
United States Air Force Test Pilot School
foundedBy
China Theater
South-East Asian theatre of World War II
involvedForce
Air Transport Command
Project Alberta
parentOrganization
Allied bombing of Hungary
The Hump airlift over the Himalayas
participant
Operation Torch ("Twelfth Air Force")
airComponent
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airForce
Operation Goodtime
airSupportBy
Operation Dracula
airSupportFrom
China Burma India Theater
alliedForce
Packard V-1650
alliedService
RAF Second Tactical Air Force
alliedWith
War Department Circular 59 (1941)
appliesToBranch
Yeager: An Autobiography
associatedOrganization
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
associatedWith
Glenn L. Martin Company plant, Omaha, Nebraska
associatedWithOrganization
Allied bombing of Germany ("Eighth Air Force")
carriedOutBy
Fifteenth Air Force
commandStructure
RAF Coastal Command
cooperatedWith
Allied air forces
coordinatedWith
War Department Circular 59 (1941) ("Army Air Forces")
definesTerm
Fat Man
deliveredBy
JG 52
engagedOpponent
Operation Detachment
forceType
Eighth Air Force
formerBranch
National Republican Air Force
foughtAgainst
Joint Task Force One
hasBranch
atomic bombing of Nagasaki
hasOperator
Hethel, Norfolk, United Kingdom
historicallyAssociatedWith
Aleutian Islands campaign
involvedBranch
Allied strategic bombing of Japan
mainForce
Allied bombing of Germany
mainParticipants
War Department Circular 59 (1941)
mainSubject
attack on Pearl Harbor
militaryBranchAttacked
Winged Victory (film)
militaryBranchDepicted
Buckley Space Force Base
militaryBranchHistory
Royal Romanian Air Force
opposed
Defense against the Combined Bomber Offensive
opposedTo
United States Department of War
oversaw
Tokyo Raid
participants
atomic bombing of Hiroshima
perpetrator
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
portrays
United States Air Force
precededBy
United States Army Air Corps
predecessorOf
Executive Order 8873
relatedTo
National Security Act of 1947
separatedFrom
Glamorous Glennis
serviceBranchAssociation
14th Air Force
serviceBranchDuringWWII
Thirteenth Air Force
serviceBranchPre1947
United States Army Air Corps
successor
Schwalbe
usedAgainst

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