The AAF was reduced to a very small force while the country was torn by civil war.

" According to singer Tony Bennett who sang with it while in the service, the 314 was the immediate successor to the Glenn Miller led AAF orchestra.

Courtland was home to the Courtland Army Airfield ( Courtland AAF ) in 1944 and 1945.

On 15 August 1947, the 1st Fighter Wing was activated as part of AAF Regulation 20-15, " Reorganization of AAF Base Units and Installations ," on 27 June 1947.

The AT-10 was later used extensively at Moody AAF during World War II.

Columbus was initially assigned to the AAF Southeast Training Center with the Army Air Force Pilot School ( Advanced Twin-Engine ) activated ( phase 3 pilot training ).

With the end of World War II, Columbus AAF was first placed on " reduced activity status ", and was inactivated on August 15, 1946.

Administrative control of the base was initially assigned to Barksdale AAF in 1946, then to Goodfellow AFB in 1948, then to Craig AFB in 1950.

Clovis AAF was assigned to II Bomber Command, Second Air Force.

The host unit at Clovis AAF was the 16th Bombardment Wing, a training unit for Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber crews for Europe, and later becoming a major training / conversion base for the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers heading to the Pacific Theater.

On 16 April 1945, Clovis AAF was transferred from jurisdiction of Second Air Force to Continental Air Command, CAC continued the flying, bombing, gunnery and photographic reconnaissance classes through the end of World War II.

Clovis AAF was placed on temporarily inactive status 28 May 1947.

With the establishment of the United States Air Force in September 1947, Clovis AAF was reactivated.

Clovis AAF was renamed " Clovis Air Force Base " on 13 January 1948.

Rapid City AAF was assigned to the 17th Bombardment Training Wing, II Bomber Command.

MXF was developed to carry a subset of the Advanced Authoring Format ( AAF ) data model, under a policy known as the Zero Divergence Directive ( ZDD ).

During World War II, Williams Field was under the command of the 89th Army Air Force Base Unit, AAF West Coast Training Center.

Thirty-one-year-old Army Air Force Second Lieutenant Reagan was assigned to Culver City's First Motion Picture Unit ( 18th AAF Base Unit ) at this time, which was some three months after his voluntary transfer from the Army Cavalry, and five years after having been commissioned from the enlisted ranks of the U. S. Army Reserve in Iowa.

The base was officially activated as Las Vegas AAF on 20 December 1941.

At the height of the war, nose-artists were in very high demand in the USAAF and were paid quite well for their services while AAF commanders tolerated nose art in an effort to boost aircrew morale.

The most significant wartime contribution of National Guard aviators was to train and lead the large numbers of volunteer airmen who had entered the AAF.

It compelled the Army Air Forces ( AAF ) to plan for a significant Air Force National Guard once the overseas fighting ended.

However, before the first B-17s arrived, plans for the field changed and the 396th was transferred to Moses Lake AAF, Washington.

Headquarters of Ninth Air Force's 70th Fighter Wing of IX Tactical Air Command arrived from Paine AAF, Washington at Greenham Common on 29 November, staying just a few days before also moving on to RAF Boxted on 6 December.

The manpower of the AAF is around 3600, including 450 pilots, mainly trained during the Communist era.

On 5 July 1942, during World War II, the airport was commandeered by the United States Army Air Forces and used as a contract primary pilot training airfield under the AAF Gulf Coast Training Center ( later Central Flying Training Command ).

Cadets arrived at Midland AAF for twelve weeks of combined ground and flight training, rigorous physical activity and rigid military discipline during a sixteen-hour day, with only part of Sunday off.

These formerly remote and uninhabited areas were leased from local landowners at the time and used as bombing and gunnery ranges for Orlando AAB and Pinecastle AAF when both were Army Air Forces facilities during World War II.

The base was equipped with aprons, runways, taxiways and hangars during the summer of 1942 being renamed Alamogordo AAF in June.

However, no tactical units were assigned there during the war and the few support personnel who were stationed there were under the command of the 4250th Army Air Force Base Unit at Alpena AAF.

P-38 Lightnings making a low-level pass over the runway at Shemya AAF, 1 August 1945 during the Armed Forces Day celebration

Frances Green, Margaret ( Peg ) Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn leaving their plane, " Pistol Packin ' Mama ," at the four-engine school at Lockbourne AAF, Ohio, during WASP ferry training B-17 Flying Fortress

Brereton also decided that the operation, protected by massive air support from the RAF and the AAF, would take place in daylight, to avoid the dispersion experienced during both the British and American airborne landings in Normandy in June.

Mil Mi-17 | Mi-17 helicopters of the AAF during the 2010 air show in Kabul.

The Afghan government also relied on the AAF for transportation of election materials during the 2009 presidential election.

The Afghan Air Force ( AAF ) deteriorated following the collapse of Najibullah's government in 1992, and it was nearly eliminated by US / Coalition air strikes during Operation Enduring Freedom in late 2001.

During 1943, the policy was to have a class fire 1, 200 rounds per student for one week on the Kingman Air to Air Gunnery Range ( week five of the training cycle ) and then move to Yucca AAF and have them fire 1, 000 rounds during the second week.

Garden City Regional Airport's former status as Garden City AAF helped it serve an important role during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Flights of P-61s from the 426th, 427th, 547th, 549th and 550th Night Fighter Squadrons moved in and out of Salinas AAF during 1944 as part of their training prior to being deployed to combat units, primarily in the Pacific and CBI theaters.

Las Vegas AAF was re-activated on 30 August 1947 by Air Training Command as a subinstallation of Mather Army Airfield, California under the ATC Flying Training Division.

The National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, has an extensive display dedicated to the AVG, including an A-2 jacket worn by an AVG pilot in China, a banner presented to the AAF by the Chinese government, and a P-40E.

Yuma AAF was a single-engine flight training school, operated by the Army Air Forces Flying Training Command, West Coast Training Center, with flying training beginning in January 1943.

With the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the need for bombardiers was evident, soon after an announcement was made by Lieutenant Colonel Isaiah Davies, Commanding Officer of Midland Army Air Field ( MAAF ), that Midland AAF would be used exclusively to train bombardiers in the AT-11 Kansan for eventual assignment to bomber aircraft such as the B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, B-25 Mitchell, B-26 Marauder and B-29 Superfortress.

The AAF was created by the Advanced Media Workflow Association ( AMWA ).

In AAF these kinds of data are called essence data, because they are the essential data within a multimedia program that can be perceived directly by the audience

The AAF Low-Level Container Specification uses Structured Storage, a file storage system developed by Microsoft, to store the objects on disk.

For example, AAF has been adopted by the DoD / IC Motion Imagery Standards Board ( MISB ) for their Aerial Surveillance and Photogrammetry Applications standard ( ASPA ).

* The AAF Example files created by working AAF implementations

AAF was originally created by the Advanced Media Workflow Association ( AMWA ), formerly the AAF Association Inc., a broadly based trade association created to promote the development and adoption of AAF, MXF and SOA technology in media workflows.

At MacDill, Eighth Air Force headquarters were manned chiefly by personnel from the 58th Bombardment Wing, Very Heavy, stationed at Fort Worth AAF, Texas.

Between Marfa AAF and its satellite fields — each constantly patrolled by sentries — they consider it unlikely that any actual phenomena would have remained unobserved and unmentioned.

The task facing the Tenth Air Force of creating an airlift was daunting at minimum, emphasizing all that the Army Air Forces lacked in April 1942: no units tasked for moving cargo, no experience in organized airlift by the AAF or its predecessor Air Corps, and no airfields for basing units.

On 11 October 1946, the 4156th AAF Base Unit was ordered to cease operations by the 30th of the month.

On May 1, 1944, the 335th was replaced by the 331st Army Air Force ( AAF ) Base Unit as the OTU, being subsequently replaced by the 2621st AAF Base Unit on December 1, 1945.