History of the United States Air Force | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-22

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00:03:08 1 World War I and between wars
00:03:19 1.1 World War I
00:05:13 1.2 Billy Mitchell: Air power court martialed
00:08:07 1.3 Command structure
00:09:02 1.4 Technology
00:10:42 2 World War II
00:18:50 3 Cold War and war in Korea
00:28:24 4 Vietnam War
00:31:00 5 Combat operations since 1975
00:33:48 5.1 Gulf War
00:35:03 5.2 Bosnia and Kosovo
00:35:59 5.3 Global War on Terror
00:38:21 6 2010s
00:45:05 7 See also
00:45:20 8 Notes and references
00:45:30 9 Further reading
00:48:09 10 External links



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The United States Air Force became a separate military service on 18 September 1947 with the implementation of the National Security Act of 1947. The Act created the National Military Establishment, later renamed the United States Department of Defense, which was composed of four of the five branches, the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and a newly created Air Force. Prior to 1947, the responsibility for military aviation was divided between the Army for land-based operations and the Navy and Marine Corps for sea-based operations from aircraft carrier and amphibious aircraft. The Army created the first antecedent of the Air Force on 1 August 1907, which through a succession of changes of organization, titles, and missions advanced toward eventual separation 40 years later. The predecessor organizations leading up to today's U.S. Air Force are:

Aeronautical Division, Signal Corps (1 August 1907 – 18 July 1914)
Aviation Section, Signal Corps (18 July 1914 – 20 May 1918)
Division of Military Aeronautics (20 May 1918 – 24 May 1918)
Air Service, U.S. Army (24 May 1918 – 2 July 1926)
U.S. Army Air Corps (2 July 1926 – 20 June 1941)*
U.S. Army Air Forces (20 June 1941 – 17 September 1947)*** The Air Corps became a subordinate element of the Army Air Forces on 20 June 1941, and was abolished as an administrative organization on 9 March 1942. It continued to exist as a branch of the Army (similar to the infantry, quartermaster, or artillery) until reorganization provisions of the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 495), 26 July 1947.**The Army Air Forces were abolished by Transfer Order 1, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 26 September 1947, implementing the same provisions. Transfer Order 1 was the first of 200 Army-Air Force transfer agreements drawn up in June and July 1947, and ordered the transfer of all military and civilian personnel of the Army Air Forces to the Department of the Air Force and the USAF. The final transfer order was signed 22 June 1949.