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United States Air Force: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Air Force, United States • USAF
Areas Of Involvement air warfare
Related People Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. • John Daniel Caine • Charles Q. Brown, Jr. • William Mitchell • Edward O’Hare • Lori Robinson • John Hay Whitney • Claire L. Chennault • Henry Harley Arnold • Chuck Yeager • Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. • James H. Doolittle • Carl Spaatz • Curtis E. LeMay • Nathan F. Twining

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U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command training mission
The Union Balloon Corps and the balloon Intrepid
Boeing B-9 twin-engine bomber flying with a smaller P-26 fighter above and behind it.
P-6E planes in formation
USAF B-17 bombers
Normandy Invasion: Allied bombardment of Pointe du Hoc
USAF refueling operations during the Vietnam War
USAF F-22 Raptor
USAF E-3 Sentry
Two F-16 Fighting Falcons of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds aerobatic squadron performing a "calypso" maneuver over Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rapid City, S.D., May 30, 2009.
Watch the takeoff of SR-71 Blackbird from Edwards Air Force Base, California
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