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• USAF Unit Histories

  The U.S. War Department created the first antecedent of the U.S. Air Force in 1907. In World War II, almost 68,000 U.S airmen died helping to win the war; only the infantry suffered more enlisted casualties. The National Security Act of 1947, signed on 26 July 1947 by President Harry S Truman, established the Department of the Air Force, but it was not not until 18 September 1947, when the first secretary of the Air Force, W. Stuart Symington was sworn into office that the Air Force was officially formed.

   

• RAF Unit Histories

  While the British were not the first to make use of heavier-than-air military aircraft, the RAF is the world's oldest independent air force: that is, the first air force to become independent of army or navy control. Founded on 1 April 1918, with headquarters located in the former Hotel Cecil, during the First World War, by the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). At that time it was the largest air force in the world. The RAF's naval aviation branch, the Fleet Air Arm, was founded in 1924 but handed over to Admiralty control on 24 May 1939.

  The RAF developed its doctrine of strategic bombing which led to the construction of long-range bombers and became the basic philosophy in the Second World War.

   

• Other AF Histories

  Covering Chinese, Augsburg and Luftwaffe units.

   

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