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The United States Army Air Forces ( USAAF or AAF) [1] was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States [2] during and immediately after World War II (1941–1947). It was created on 20 June 1941 as successor to the previous United States Army Air ...
The Army Air Forces in World War II. The Army Air Forces in World War II is a seven-volume work describing the actions of the U.S. Army Air Corps (from June 1941, the U.S. Army Air Forces) between January 1939 and August 1945. It was published between 1948 and 1958 by the University of Chicago Press under the auspices of the Office of Air Force ...
The Army & Air Force Exchange Service ( AAFES, also referred to as The Exchange and The PX or The BX) provides goods and services at U.S. Army and Air Force installations worldwide, operating department stores, convenience stores, restaurants, military clothing stores, theaters and more across 50 U.S. states and more than 30 countries.
Army and Army Air Force units in Europe were classified into four categories for the purpose of occupation, redeployment, or demobilization. Category I consisted of units to remain in Europe. The occupying force for Germany would consist of eight divisions and a total occupying force of 337,000 personnel to be reduced further in June 1946.
United States portal. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:United States Army Air Forces personnel. It includes United States Army Air Forces personnel that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. People who served in World War II as members of the United States Army Air Forces .
The United States Navy grew rapidly during its involvement in World War II from 1941–45, and played a central role in the Pacific War against Imperial Japan. It also assisted the British Royal Navy in the naval war against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The U.S. Navy grew slowly in the years prior to World War II, due in part to ...
Winged Victory: The Army Air Forces in World War II (1997) Army. Perret, Geoffrey. There's a War to Be Won: The United States Army in World War II (1997) Europe. Weigley, Russell. Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaigns of France and Germany, 1944–45 (1990) Marines. Sherrod, Robert Lee. History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II (1987) Navy
Cape Field at Fort Glenn was a military site significant for its role in World War II.It consists of Fort Glenn, an airfield of the United States Army Air Corps later renamed Cape Air Force Base, and the adjacent Naval Air Facility Otter Point, both located on Umnak Island in the Aleutian Islands of southwestern Alaska.