The USAAF split into a separate military service after the war, but it was still considered a separate unit within the army during the war. My father was in th

The USAAF split into a separate military service after the war, but it was still considered a separate unit within the army during the war. My father was in the Army Air Force during WWII - and he always said he was in the Army Air Force and not the Army. They were also nick named the Air Corps during the war.