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The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the statutory forerunner of the United States Air Force. The USAAC was renamed from the Air Service on July 2, 1926, and it was part of the United States Army. It was the immediate predecessor of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), established on June 20, 1941. Although abolished as an administrative echelon in 1942, the Air Corps (AC) remained as one of the combat arms of the Army until 1947.