U.S. Air Force – 69 years old

The official date of the founding of the United States Air Force is 18 September 1947.  It was a momentous event that over six decades later has demonstrated the achievement of an Air Force second-to-none, yet the Air Force’s history and heritage goes back a lot further.

From the time that the US military purchased its first aircraft in 1909 up to 1947, the United States Air Force did not exist as a separate and independent military service organization. It went through a series of designations: Aeronautical Section, Signal Corps (1909); Aviation Section, Signal Corps (1914); United States Army Air Service (1918); United States Army Air Corps (1926), United States Army Air Forces (1941).

America’s youngest military branch, the United States Air Force has risen to become one of the most technologically advanced aerial warfare units in the world today.

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