Posted on Jun 20, 2016
Glenn Miller - Music Video - The Army Air Corps
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The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the military aviation arm of the United States of America between 1926 and 1941. The statutory administrative forerunner of the United States Air Force, it was renamed from the earlier United States Army Air Service on 2 July 1926 and part of the larger United States Army. The Air Corps was the immediate predecessor of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), established on 20 June 1941. Although discontinued as an administrative echelon during World War II, the Air Corps (AC) remained as one of the combat arms of the Army until 1947, when it was legally abolished by legislation establishing the Department of the Air Force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Corps https://www.army.mil/aviation/aircorps/
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B24 and B17 at Moffett Field May 2015
Not very often you see both types of bombers together in one place outside of an air museum especially seeing both types in flying condition.
youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGb06KCLn7E
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell
Love watching these old war horses of the sky. I live in the flight pattern on the outskirts of DFW.. Whenever an air show comes to this area I hear them flying in my direction. one day I will capture them on video.. Had a chance a year ago but my camera and video unit was in need of charging.. I was cussing at myself for not being ready...... LOL !
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Super vintage footage and outstanding musical accompaniment, SGT McConnell. Seeing this archival video brings back so many great memories, not only from what it reminds me of my own service years ('81-'96), but from people I met, mentors, leaders, friends, and heroes who served decades before I did.
After my first enlistment as a Cold War USAF Security Policeman in SAC ("Best Job I Ever Had", literally), I served three subsequent hitches as a USAF Wing Historian. It was a tiny career field with a unique and never-ending mission: to accurately and unsympathetically tell the story of the successes (and failures) of whichever wing I was assigned to over a set period of time. I had to be everywhere at once, a fly on every wall, a friend (or pest) to every commander, crew, shop chief and cop at the gate. I typed my fingers to the bone, chronologizing our combat wing sorties, recording unique achievements and first-ever accomplishments for posterity, interviewing and otherwise commemorating our returning crews, and immortalizing for all time the outstanding men and women I worked with.
This video, however, reminds me of the most fun part of my job, getting to officially interview a couple dozen World War II veterans over the years, preserving and archiving their harrowing and amazing experiences in formats future generations could use. Glenn Miller's music here fondly reminds me of those men and women of the Air Force's heritage years whose humble and faithful service left us such a superb legacy.
My deepest respect and gratitude to them all.
"Nothing can stop the U.S. Air Force!"
After my first enlistment as a Cold War USAF Security Policeman in SAC ("Best Job I Ever Had", literally), I served three subsequent hitches as a USAF Wing Historian. It was a tiny career field with a unique and never-ending mission: to accurately and unsympathetically tell the story of the successes (and failures) of whichever wing I was assigned to over a set period of time. I had to be everywhere at once, a fly on every wall, a friend (or pest) to every commander, crew, shop chief and cop at the gate. I typed my fingers to the bone, chronologizing our combat wing sorties, recording unique achievements and first-ever accomplishments for posterity, interviewing and otherwise commemorating our returning crews, and immortalizing for all time the outstanding men and women I worked with.
This video, however, reminds me of the most fun part of my job, getting to officially interview a couple dozen World War II veterans over the years, preserving and archiving their harrowing and amazing experiences in formats future generations could use. Glenn Miller's music here fondly reminds me of those men and women of the Air Force's heritage years whose humble and faithful service left us such a superb legacy.
My deepest respect and gratitude to them all.
"Nothing can stop the U.S. Air Force!"
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