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1942 August 20: The Army Air Forces activated Twelfth Air Force at Bolling Field, D.C. In November 1942, the Twelfth moved to the Mediterranean theater, providing the Allies with fighter and light-to-medium bomber operations in North Africa and Italy. September: The first members of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps began to serve with the Army Air Forces at Aircraft Warning Service stations. During the same month, the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron was activated at New Castle, Delaware, under the command of Nancy Harkness Love, and the Women’s Flying Training Detachment under Jacqueline Cochran was established under Flying Training Command. September 12: The 4th Fighter Group activated at Bushey Hall, England, to furnish the first U.S. fighter escorts for Eighth Air Force heavy bombers on missions over occupied Europe. Former members of the Eagle Squadrons, U.S. fighter pilots who had voluntarily served in the Royal Air Force before U.S. entry into the war, formed the nucleus of the new group. September 15: Fifth Air Force transport planes airlifted the first U.S. troops to New Guinea, transporting men of the 126th Infantry Regiment from Australia to Seven-Mile Airdrome near Port Moresby, New Guinea. October 2: At Muroc Field, California, Robert Stanley made the first flight in the Bell XP–59A, the first U.S. turbojet-powered aircraft. October 3: Germany’s liquid-fueled V–2, the world’s first large operational ballistic missile, flew successfully for the first time. November 8: Operation TORCH, the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa, began with amphibious landings in Morocco and Algeria. Twelfth Air Force supported the invasion with troop-carrying C–47s of the 60th Troop Carrier Group and Spitfire fighters of the 31st Fighter Group. The Douglas C–47 Skytrain, derived from the DC–3 commercial airliner of the 1930s, served the Army Air Forces during World War II and the Air Force for decades after the war. 44
November 10–13: More than 100 P–40s of the 33d Fighter Group flew from two aircraft carriers—the USS Chenango and the HMS Archer—to Port Lyautey, Morocco. November 12: Under Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, Ninth Air Force began combat operations in Egypt, providing tactical air support to the British in the drive westward across North Africa. November 28: In the first Army Air Forces air raid on Thailand, nine B–24 Liberators flew 2,760 miles from Gaya, India, to bomb Bangkok. December 1: Maj. Gen. Ira C. Eaker assumed command of Eighth Air Force in England, replacing Maj. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, who transferred to the Mediterranean theater. December 27: Second Lt. Richard I. Bong, flying a P–38 against the Japanese in the Pacific, scored his first two aerial victories. By the end of the war, he had earned 40 such credits, making him the top U.S. ace. 1943 Capt. Richard I. Bong, the leading U.S. ace during World War II 1942–43 January 5: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of Operation TORCH, activated Allied Air Force under Maj. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz in the Northwest African theater. 45
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