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Website: http://www.af.mil/photos/ World War II had been over for two years and the Korean War lay three years ahead when the Air Force ended a 40-year association with the U.S. Army to become a separate service.

The Department of the Air Force was created when President Harry S Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947.