Air Force Birthday:

<div id='pagewrapper' class='mm-page mm-slideout'> <div class='page'> <div class='content__wrapper container'> <article class='node node--landing-page node--landing-page--full' role='article'> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-8 page__content'> <p>The US Air Force was officially founded on 18 September 1947, and in the decades since it has established itself as an air force second-to-none. Yet the Air Force's history and heritage goes back the turn of the twentieth century.</p> <p>Between 1909 -- when that the US military purchased its first aircraft -- and 1947, the US Air Force did not exist as a separate and independent military service organization. It went through a series of designations: Aeronautical Section, Signal Corps (1909); Aviation Section, Signal Corps (1914); United States Army Air Service (1918); United States Army Air Corps (1926), and United States Army Air Forces (1941).</p> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div>