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Title |
AWS U.S. Army Air Force Oberver |
Object Name |
Armband |
Catalog Number |
M1992.018.044 |
Description |
AWS U.S. Army Air Force Oberver Armband >> AWS (Aircraft Warning Service) armband is from the World War II era since armband uses the "U.S. Army" name. After the war, the U.S Air Force was established as a separate from the U.S. Army >> The first Ground Observer Corps was a World War II Civil Defense program of the United States Army Air Forces to protect United States territory against air attack. The 1.5 million civilian observers at 14,000 coastal observation posts performed naked eye and binocular searches to detect German or Japanese aircraft. Observations were telephoned to filter centers, which in turn forwarded authenticated reports to the Aircraft Warning Service, >> The second Ground Observer Corps, with programmatic aims and methodologies similar to the first, was organized in early 1950, during the Cold War. Operating as an arm of the United States Air Force Civil Defense |
Date |
1942 |
Year Range from |
1942 |
Year Range to |
1942 |
Dimensions |
H-4 L-17 inches |
Material |
Cloth |
Subjects |
Civil Defense Aircraft Warning Service Military World War II |
Search Terms |
Military World War II |
Catalog date |
2020-05-10 |
Collection |
Harvey Mack Collection |