Air Corps

Noun

Meaning

formerly the airborne division of the United States Army

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Examples

Although the RAF is the principal British air power arm, the Royal Navy 's Fleet Air Arm and the British Army 's Army Air Corps also deliver air power which is integrated into the maritime, littoral and land environments. Source: Internet

A U.S. Army Air Corps bomber flying out of a secret South Atlantic airbase on Ascension Island attacked the U-boat. Source: Internet

Although Boeing lost the contract because the prototype crashed, the air corps was so impressed with Boeing's design that it ordered 13 more B-17s for further evaluation. Source: Internet

Boeing began work on pressurized long-range bombers in 1938, in response to a United States Army Air Corps request. Source: Internet

Everywhere Lindbergh went in the South Pacific, he was accorded the normal preferential treatment of a visiting colonel, although he had resigned his Air Corps Reserve colonel's commission three years before. Source: Internet

Experiments were carried out by the Irish Army involving replacing the Bedford engine of a Churchill tank with a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine salvaged from an Irish Air Corps Seafire aircraft. Source: Internet

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