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The narrator grimly informed us that if the war had gone on for 18 more months, the Allies would have been beaten back by the miraculous jet aircraft of the Luftwaffe, which would have scythed the RAF and USAAF from the sky in the blink of a tuetonic eye.
Ginjabadja on "The wolfenstein-ing of history" zornhau 2007
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What's puzzling about his book is that it reads like a juvenile novel -- Sperry is forced down and spends some time on the run in China with the help of two Chinese boys -- as if he knew that he couldn't have faked up a real story of the USAAF Flying Tigers without it being spotted as a phonie.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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His plane (a single-engined UC-64 Norseman, USAAF serial 44-70285) departed from RAF Twinwood Farm in Clapham, Bedfordshire and disappeared while flying over the English Channel.
Five People Who Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth | myFiveBest 2010
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WHen the US officially joined-in and the 8th AirForce set up in England in May/June of 1942, the surviving Americans were to be ‘returned’ to the USAAF.
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A copy of the first and other applicable pages of the USAAF Missing Air Crew Report
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The far wall was covered with brightly colored diagrams and breakdown charts for combined night bomber operations for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the Royal Air Force (RAF).
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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So Ken not only had RAF wings, he also earned USAAF wings (I have them now).
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The far wall was covered with brightly colored diagrams and breakdown charts for combined night bomber operations for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the Royal Air Force (RAF).
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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The USN controlled the seas, and the USAAF was bombing the hell of 'em at will.
Hiroshima AND Nagasaki: The Inside Story « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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"The Wartime Diaries of Captain Edward C. Piech, USAAF, 1942 – 1944" (B.A. thesis, Rutgers University, 2001), 109 – 10; Alling, Mighty Fortress, 161. back
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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