- In the beginning of airpower, what started out as rickety box kites later became supersonic machines that possessed decisive power. Both the and the of brave Airmen helped advance this technology.
- It is important to remember that air superiority is . The US uses this same principle to keep its democratic government alive; every generation must for it or it may be lost.
- One of the results of WWI was that the Air Service produced the most important weapon—an astonishing crop of
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- Between WWI and WWII, played a major role in the development of the Air Service and the Air Corps.
- Airpower gained momentum between WWI and WWII when Congress enacted the , on 02 July 1926, changing the name of the Air Service to the Army Air Corps.
- During WWII, the helped achieve the primary objective of raising the morale on the US home front.
- was WWII’s most critical day; it was when the US invaded Hitler’s Fortress in Europe at Normandy.
- True or False. The gigantic Army AF was stretched thin during WWII.
- The new US tactic that was used to bring an end to WWII was by using . Two were used, one was dropped on Hiroshima and the other was dropped on .
- During the aftermath of WWII, the fight for a separate paid off; the National Security Act of 1947 took effect on 26 July 1947, and it created the AF on , as an independent service of the US military.
1. death; genius
2. perishable; fight
3. future AF leaders
4. publicity
5. Air Corps Act
6. Doolittle Raid
7. D-Day
8. True
9. atomic bombs; Nagasaki
10. Air Force; 18 September 1947