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United States. Air Force

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1947 -

Biographical / Historical

The Air Service of the United States Army was created in 1918. In 1926 the name was changed to Air Corps, in 1942 to Army Air Forces, and in 1947 to United States Air Force.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Robert E. Kingsley photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-048
Abstract

The collection consists of approximately 90 photographs, 260 negatives, and three scrapbooks of Robert E. Kingsley, a U.S. Air Force staff photographer, taken during World War II, the Korean War, the 1963 fire aboard the TSMS Lakonia, and at North and Shaw Air Force Bases in South Carolina. Also included are 16 Holocaust atrocity photographs taken at Dachau and Mauthausen concentration camps.

Dates: 1942-1967