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The Army Air Corps became a subordinate element of the Army Air Forces June 20, 1941. Since the Army Air Corps had been established by statute in 1926, its disestablishment required an act of Congress, which did not take place until 1947. Between March 9, 1942 and Sept 18, 1947, the Army Air Corps continued to exist as a combatant arm, and personnel of the Army Air Forces were still assigned to the Army Air Corps.
-Air Force Magazine, May 2002, pg. 37.
Related Information:
- Lineage of the United States Air Force
- Evolution of the Department of the Air Force
- The U.S. Army Air Corps Act, 1926
- The General Headquarters Air Force, 1935
- National Security Act of 1947
- The Emergence of the Strategic Air Command