Proper noun
USAAF
Former name of USAF. (United States Air Force); Initialism of United States Army Air Forces.
After Bell Aircraft test pilot "Slick" Goodlin demanded $150,000 ($1.6 million in 2015 dollars) to break the sound "barrier," the USAAF selected Yeager to fly the rocket-powered Bell XS-1 in a NACA program to research high-speed flight. Source: Internet
At Stalin's insistence, on 8 May, shortly before midnight, ( Generalfeldmarschall ) Wilhelm Keitel repeated the signing in Berlin at Marshal Georgiy Zhukov 's headquarters, with General Carl Spaatz of the USAAF present as Eisenhower's representative. Source: Internet
China Burma India Theater USAAF and Chinese P-40 pilots performed well in this theater, scoring high kill ratios against Japanese types such as the Ki-43, Nakajima Ki-44 "Tojo" and the Zero. Source: Internet
As early as 4 March 1945, while fighting was still taking place, the B-29 Dinah Might of the USAAF 9th Bomb Group reported it was low on fuel near the island and requested an emergency landing. Source: Internet
A squadron of USAAF Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft were assigned the task as only they possessed the range to intercept and engage. Source: Internet
As seen from USAAF P-51 Mustang gun camera Too fast to catch for the escorting Allied fighters, the Me 262s were almost impossible to head off. Source: Internet