US Army Air Forces Around the World | WW2 Era OSS Documentary | 1944
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This early 1944 film - originally titled as "AAF Report" - is a documentary presented by the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) and produced by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the intelligence agency of the United States during World War 2, and the predecessor of the modern Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It was the first official USAAF report made to be shown to the public. The film is introduced by air strategist Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces.
The film documents the world-wide activities of the U.S. Army Air Forces from 1941 till 1944. It is one of the best documentaries about the organization and the various operations of the Army Air Forces made during the Second World War. It shows the Allied air forces and their enemies (the German Luftwaffe and the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force) in action on virtually all theaters, from the Pacific Ocean and China through North Africa to Western Europe. Using animated maps, the film shows the locations of the 15 "Air Forces" around the world and explains the American military strategy in detail. You will learn how the 15 "Air Forces" started and what their strength and missions were. The film contains a ton of historical footage showing daily operations from aircraft plants, training and transport, to exciting air battles. It also contains various images of the US home front.
The following warplanes appear in the film:
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Douglas A-20 Havoc
- Douglas A-26 Invader
- Consolidated B-24 Liberator
- Bristol Beaufort
- Douglas SBD Dauntless
- North American B-25 Mitchell
- Lockheed P-38 Lightning
- Bell P-39 Airacobra
- Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
- Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
- Douglas DC-3
- Messerschmitt Bf 109
- Focke-Wulf Fw 190
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND / CONTEXT
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War 2 (1939/41-1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services. The AAF was a component of the United States Army, which in 1942 was divided functionally by executive order into three autonomous forces: the Army Ground Forces, the Services of Supply (which in 1943 became the Army Service Forces), and the Army Air Forces. Each of these forces had a commanding general who reported directly to the Army Chief of Staff.
The peak size of the AAF during the Second World War was over 2.4 million men and women in service and nearly 80,000 aircraft by 1944, and 783 domestic bases in December 1943. By "V-E Day", the Army Air Forces had 1.25 million men stationed overseas and operated from more than 1,600 airfields worldwide.
The Army Air Forces was created in June 1941 to provide the air arm a greater autonomy. The AAF succeeded both the Air Corps, which had been the statutory military aviation branch since 1926, and the GHQ Air Force, which had been activated in 1935 to quiet the demands of airmen for an independent Air Force similar to the Royal Air Force which had already been established in the United Kingdom / Great Britain.
Although other nations already had separate air forces independent of their army or navy (such as the British Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe), the AAF remained a part of the Army until a defense reorganization in the post-war period resulted in the passage by the United States Congress of the National Security Act of 1947 with the creation of an independent United States Air Force in September 1947.
By the end of World War 2, the Army Air Forces had become virtually an independent service. By regulation and executive order, it was a subordinate agency of the United States Department of War (as were the Army Ground Forces and the Army Service Forces) tasked only with organizing, training, and equipping combat units, and limited in responsibility to the continental United States. In reality, Headquarters AAF controlled the conduct of all aspects of the air campaigns in every part of the world, determining air policy and issuing orders without transmitting them through the Army Chief of Staff.
US Army Air Forces Around the World | WW2 Era OSS Documentary | 1944
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NOTE: THIS VIDEO DOCUMENTS HISTORICAL EVENTS. THE VIDEO HAS BEEN UPLOADED WITH EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. ITS TOPIC IS REPRESENTED WITHIN HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
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My grandpa was a Japanese American. Who joined the Air Force in ww2 and fought in the pacific against the Japanese imperial forces. It took a big toll on his mind. It showed in his later years.
Thanks to your Grandfather and his fighting and sacrifice.
Bull Shit! He was more than likely in a Japanese American Internment Camp!
@@Boz_-st4jt Shut the fuck up there were actually Japanese Americans fighting in the war
@@Boz_-st4jt Im pretty sure some were allowed to fight in the armed forces later in the war, although you aren’t wrong most were in concentration camps at some point.
@@Boz_-st4jt they let alot of Japanese men of fighting age fight it got them there citizenship back immediately so not only are u wrong u are a disrespectful little bitch that couldn't hold a candle to her pap or anyone that fought for freedom in WW2 fuck u
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Why does your opening thumbnail show NAVY F4U Corsairs as USAAF planes?
why not
Because they were navy and marine corp
I was going to mention that…but it’s good to know others noticed that.
@@stevehoward7176 wrong
39:55 Werner Von Braun?
Joseph Goebbels
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77 years ago
1944
Apr 15
Someone Knows about cameras? look the german films has more quality even on night someone knows something about it?
Us air force ww2 super 👌👌 and Germany, England, Japan, China kill on no bad and us air force super 👌 love wow great job
my grandpa a jewish american fought in ww2 in the air force 😁
USA the looser of the planete they loose everywhere they go to make war Corea North, Vietnam, Somalie,Afganisthan the only time they "won" its againts the poor japanese who atomised with two atomic bomb!
Shure he wanted to fight
Why are you using the opening scene from "Black Sheep Squadron " .
Their USMC Airmen .
!!!OOOOORRRRRRAAAAAA !!!
NOT... Army Air Corps
AND Before Anyone starts Bitchin .
For that period of time
That is the Correct title for the US Air Force .
One time send to embassy Germany in Bankok never Anwort So why in DE say me not nice people Embassy in Bankok!!
Travel wait
The title doesn't make any sense.
Why?
Humanity was given a severe blow by the US Air force by dropping Atom bombs
Yeah, we should have waited until Germany or Japan used one first..
@@Natch67 did your allied force found any nuclear bomb elsewhere in Japan or Germany after surrender
It saved many ALLIED FORCES lives...
The atomic bomb was the more humane option between operation downfall and the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Operation downfall was estimated to kill 1.7-4 million US soldiers as well as 5-10 million Japanese. The atomic bombs would be just 0.016% of the total death toll that could’ve happened in an invasion of Japan.
I would also like to add that the that because the US had not suffered as much as other nations in World War 2 (population wise and economic wise) meant that we were the country to spearheaded the rebuilding of nations like Germany and Japan that had been decimated by allied bombs.
Also had the war not been shortened with the atomic bombs, we would likely see a division in Japanese territory between the Russians and Americans similar to the Koreas or what we saw in Germany.
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