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September 18, 1947 1947 today 1909 September 18 December 19, 1945 April 18, 1942 3 months 1939 December 7, 2005 October 14, 1947 1908 2007 August 1, 1907 April 26, 1948 April 14, 1948 June 20, 1941 26, 1947 the past 60 years the decades 1990 11, 2001 recent decades the early years 1948 17 consecutive years 1949 July 26, 1947

SESSION H. the Cold War the Global War on Terror Vietnam War World War II World War I

Desert Shield

the United States United States the United States Iraq Afghanistan Stratojet Panama the United States Air Forces Soviet Union Kosovo Bosnia-Herzegovina Germany Korea

Pearl Harbor the west coast Africa Arctic Asia-Pacific Antarctic east coast Europe Southwest Asia

South Vietnamese Mach European Citizen Airmen North American Iraqi Japanese Korean

USAF the House of Representatives CONGRESS the Air Force Nation the United States Army Senate Boeing B–47 the Army Air Service the Pacific Theater the Department of War the National Aeronautics and Space Administration the Armed Forces the Berlin Airlift Operation Allied Force the Air National Guard the Army Air Forces the Aeronautical Division AAF Air Force Reserve partment United Nations tional Guard the Army Ground Forces the USAF Reserve X–1 the Army Air Corps Signal Corps Allied United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces

Harry S. Truman W. Stuart Symington Benjamin D. Foulois James ‘‘ Charles ‘‘Chuck’’ Yeager Henry ‘‘Hap’’ Arnold Mason M. Patrick Henry H. Frank M. Andrews James Flyer Bernard A. Schriever Curtis LeMay William Edward Charles DeForest Chandler sonal Viet Cong Wright Carl A. Spaatz

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