This pivotal development granted the Air Force an equal status alongside the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy, solidifying its role in national defense and setting the stage for its future as a premier ...
On August 1, 1943, US Army Air Force B-24 Liberators took off from bases in Libya for an audacious raid on one of the Nazi military's most valuable resources. Operation Tidal Wave was meant to ...
Designed for high-altitude precision bombing, the B-24s of the US Army's Eighth ... the Mighty Eighth Air Force conducted daylight precision bombing. On a mission codenamed Operation Carpetbagger ...