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! ====Emblems==== {{commons|Wing emblems of the United States Air Force}} {{commons|Group emblems of the United States Air Force}} {{commons|Squadron emblems of the United States Air Force}} The first [[shoulder sleeve insignia]] authorized for Air Corps wear was that of the General Headquarters Air Force, approved 20 July 1937.<ref>[http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Documents/KittyHawkChronology/Kitty1903-79.pdf Up from Kittyhawk Chronology 1903β1979]. airforce-magazine.com. Retrieved 9 October 2012.</ref> This sleeve insignia, which consisted of a blue [[triskelion]] superimposed on a gold circle, was retained after GHQ Air Force became Air Force Combat Command on 20 June 1941. The triskelion represented a stylized propeller that symbolized the three combat wings of GHQ Air Force.<ref>Rottman (1998), p. 54.</ref> On 23 February 1942, the GHQ AF patch was discontinued and the service-wide AAF sleeve insignia ("Hap Arnold Emblem") approved. The patch was designed by a member of Gen. Arnold's staff, James T. Rawls, and was based on the [[V sign#Victory sign|V-for-Victory sign]] popularized by [[Winston Churchill]].<ref name="rawls">{{cite web| url = http://www.afhso.af.mil/questions/topic.asp?id=1945| title = How did Air Force shoulder sleeve insignia develop?| publisher = Air Force Historical Studies Office| access-date = 11 October 2012| archive-date = 17 November 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161117103413/http://www.afhso.af.mil/questions/topic.asp?id=1945| url-status = dead}}</ref> The wearing of sleeve insignia was authorized for members of numbered air forces based overseas on 2 March 1943, and for air forces in the United States on 25 June 1943. From that date forward, the "Hap Arnold Emblem" was worn only by personnel of units not assigned to a numbered air force. AR 600β40, "Wearing of the Service Uniform", subsequently limited sleeve insignia to the 16 air forces and the AAF patch. The [[Quartermaster Corps (United States Army)|Quartermaster Corps]], responsible for the design and supply of all authorized insignia, resisted further designs for the AAF until 28 July 1945, when command arcs (arc-shaped tabs, see example above in ''Command structure'') were authorized for wear above the AAF insignia by members of the various support commands.<ref>[http://www.angelfire.com/md2/patches/airforcearcs.html United States Army, Second World War, Air Force Command Arcs], angelfire.com, by Howard G. Lanham, retrieved 3 April 2020</ref> As all 48 states then part of the Union were contained within the [[contiguous United States]], the term "Zone of the Interior" for the First through Fourth Air Forces' areas of assignment was World War II's term for what is called "CONUS" by today's [[United States Department of Defense]] in the 21st century. <gallery class="center"> File:First_Air_Force_-_Emblem_(World_War_II).jpg|[[First Air Force]]<br />Northeast United States<br />(Zone of the Interior) File:2daf-wwii-svg.svg|[[Second Air Force]]<br />Northwest United States<br />(Zone of the Interior) File:3daf-wwii.jpg|[[Third Air Force]]<br />Southeast United States<br />(Zone of the Interior) File:4thaf-wwii.jpg|[[Fourth Air Force]]<br />Western United States<br />(Zone of the Interior) File:Fifth_Air_Force_-_Emblem_(World_War_II).svg|[[Fifth Air Force]]<br />Philippines<br />Australia<br />Southwest Pacific File:Sixth_Air_Force_-_Emblem_(World_War_II).jpg|[[Sixth Air Force]]<br />Caribbean Islands<br />Panama<br />South America File:Seventh_Air_Force_-_Emblem_(World_War_II).svg|[[Seventh Air Force]]<br />Hawaii<br />Central Pacific File:Eighth_Air_Force_-_Emblem_(World_War_II).png|[[Eighth Air Force]]<br />Europe File:Patch9thusaaf.png|[[United States Air Forces Central Command|Ninth Air Force]]<br />Middle East<br />North Africa<br />Europe File:Tenth_Air_Force_-_Emblem_(World_War_II).png|[[Tenth Air Force]]<br />India<br />Burma File:Eleventh Air Force - Emblem (World War II).svg|[[Eleventh Air Force]]<br />Alaska File:Twelfth_Air_Force_-_Emblem_(World_War_II).png|[[Twelfth Air Force]]<br />North Africa<br />Mediterranean File:Thirteenth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).jpg|[[Thirteenth Air Force]]<br />South Pacific File:Fourteenth_Air_Force_-_Emblem_(World_War_II).jpg|[[Fourteenth Air Force]]<br />China File:Patch 15th USAAF.png|[[Fifteenth Air Force]]<br />Mediterranean File:Twentieth_Air_Force_-_Emblem_(World_War_II).png|[[Twentieth Air Force]]<br />India/China<br />Mariana Islands </gallery> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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