United States Army Air Forces Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Aircraft=== {{Main article|List of military aircraft of the United States}} The United States Army Air Forces used a large variety of aircraft in accomplishing its various missions, including many obsolete aircraft left over from its pre-June 1941 time as the Air Corps, with fifteen designations of types.<ref>Bowman (1997), p. 113.</ref><ref group=n>The types were: A β Attack; AT β Advanced Trainer; B β Bomber; BT β Basic Trainer; C β Cargo/Transport; CG β Cargo Glider; F β Reconnaissance; L β Liaison; O β Observation; OA β Observation-Amphibian; P β Pursuit; PT β Primary Trainer; R β Rotary wing (helicopter); TG β Trainer Glider; and UC β Utility. (Bowman, p. 113)</ref> The following were the most numerous types in the USAAF inventory, or those that specifically saw combat. Variants, including all photo-reconnaissance ("F") variants, are listed and described under their separate articles. Many aircraft, particularly transports and trainers, had numerous designations resulting from differences in power plants. ====Bomber==== [[File:B-17g-44-46604-44-48676-306bg-thurleigh.jpg|thumb|B-17G Fortresses of the 306th Bomb Group]] * [[Douglas A-20 Havoc]] * [[Douglas SBD Dauntless|Douglas A-24 Banshee]] * [[Douglas A-26 Invader]] * [[Vultee A-31 Vengeance|Vultee A-35 Vengeance]] * [[North American A-36 Apache]] * [[Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]] * [[Douglas B-18 Bolo]] * [[Consolidated B-24 Liberator]] * [[North American B-25 Mitchell]] * [[Martin B-26 Marauder]] * [[Boeing B-29 Superfortress]] * [[Consolidated B-32 Dominator]] * [[Lockheed Ventura|Lockheed B-34 Ventura]] ====Fighter==== [[File:P-51-361.jpg|right|thumb|P-51 Mustang of 361st Fighter Group, 1944]] * [[Seversky P-35]] * [[Curtiss P-36 Hawk]] * [[Lockheed P-38 Lightning]] * [[Bell P-39 Airacobra]] * [[Curtiss P-40 Warhawk]] * [[Republic P-47 Thunderbolt]] * [[North American P-51 Mustang]] * [[Bell P-59 Airacomet]] * [[Northrop P-61 Black Widow]] * [[Supermarine Spitfire]]<ref group=n>Spitfire Mk.Vs equipped the [[4th Operations Group|4th Fighter Group]] until early 1943; Mk.Vs and Mk.IXs were the primary fighter of the [[31st Operations Group|31st]] and [[52d Operations Group|52nd FGs]] until 1944. (Maurer ''Combat Units'', pp. 35, 84, and 114).</ref> * [[Bristol Beaufighter]]<ref group=n>Approximately 100 Beaufighters partially equipped four night fighter squadrons of the 12th AF between 1943 and 1945. (Maurer ''Combat Squadrons'', pp. 507β508, 512, and 551)</ref> [[File:L-2.jpg|thumb|Taylorcraft L-2]] ====Observation==== * [[Taylorcraft L-2|Taylorcraft L-2 Grasshopper]] * [[Aeronca L-3]] * [[Piper J-3 Cub|Piper L-4]] * [[Stinson L-5 Sentinel]] * [[North American O-47]] * [[de Havilland Mosquito]] [[File:C47-m2-438tcg-rafgc.jpg|thumb|C-47 of the 438th Troop Carrier Group]] ====Transport==== * [[Beechcraft Model 18|Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor]] * [[Curtiss C-46 Commando|Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando]] * [[Douglas C-47 Skytrain]] * [[Douglas C-54 Skymaster]] * [[Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar|Lockheed C-56 Lodestar]] ====Trainer==== [[File:AT-6C Texans in flight 1943.jpg|thumb|right|USAAF AT-6Cs near [[Luke Air Force Base|Luke Field]], 1943]] * [[North American T-6 Texan|AT-6 Texan]] * [[Beechcraft Model 18|AT-11 Kansan]] * [[Lockheed Hudson|Lockheed AT-18 Hudson]] * [[Cessna AT-17 Bobcat|Cessna AT-8/AT-17 Bobcat]] * [[Vultee BT-13 Valiant|Vultee BT-13/BT-15 Valiant]] * [[Boeing-Stearman Model 75|Boeing-Stearman PT-13/17 Kaydet]] * [[Ryan ST|Ryan PT-16/PT-21/PT-22]] * [[Fairchild PT-19|Fairchild PT-19/PT-23/PT-26]] ====Utility, rescue, and glider==== [[File:Noorduyn UC-64A Norseman.jpg|thumb|right|UC-64 Norseman]] * [[Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing|UC-43 Traveler]] * [[Fairchild 24|UC-61 Argus]] * [[Noorduyn Norseman|Noorduyn UC-64 Norseman]] * [[Waco C-72|Waco UC-72]] * [[Cessna AT-17 Bobcat|Cessna UC-78 Bobcat]] * [[Airspeed Oxford]] * [[Consolidated PBY Catalina|Consolidated OA-10 Catalina]] * [[Sikorsky R-4|Sikorsky R-4 Hoverfly]] * [[Waco CG-4|CG-4 Waco]] * [[Airspeed Horsa]] Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page