Army Air Forces

noun

U.S. Army.

1. a unit comprising almost all aviation, with its personnel, equipment, etc.: it became part of the Air Force on July 26, 1947.

Example Sentences

Army Air Forces who had always looked out for her and kept her laughing during their difficult upbringing.

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His father, Arnold, a World War II veteran who served in what was then called the United States Army Air Forces, liked the series.

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Lear was attending Emerson College in Boston, with the intention of majoring in journalism, when he enlisted in the Army Air Forces in 1942.

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He enlisted in the Army Air Forces and was trained in meteorology at Caltech in Pasadena.

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He was studying geology at Brooklyn College and playing center on the school’s football team — the quarterback was Allie Sherman, who would later be the head coach of the New York Giants — when he enlisted in the Army Air Forces in World War II and was commissioned as a lieutenant.

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