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United States. Army Air Forces

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1941-06-1947- - 1947

Biographical / Historical

The Air Service of the United States Army was created in 1918. In 1926 the name was changed to Air Corps, in June 1941 to Army Air Forces, and in 1947 to United States Air Force.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Perry M. Thomas collection

 Collection
Identifier: 00227
Scope and Contents The Perry M. Thomas collection contains a scrapbook about Operation Crossroads, a dvd of a newsreel about the tests on the Bikini Atoll, and the canvas military duffel bag the scrapbook was donated in. The Operation Crossroads scrapbook contains documents about the mission including location charts, diagrams of cameras in airplanes, data about the equipment, as photographs. There is also a history of the operation written by Perry Thomas. The photographs in the album include staff...
Dates: 1945 - 1946