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MineralMan

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3. When my father flew B-17s, it was still the USAAF.

Reply to NuclearDem (Original post)

Fri Sep 18, 2015, 02:14 PM

Sep 2015

It needed to become a new branch of the military following the war, since its mission and the Army's were very different. By the time I enlisted in the USAF in 1965, that conversion was full-scale complete. Of course, the only airplanes I ever flew in were commercial airliners going from one assignment to another. In fact, there were no planes at any of the bases where I was stationed. Go figure.

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When my father flew B-17s, it was still the USAAF. MineralMan Sep 2015 #3

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