Air Corps (Noun)
Meaning
Formerly the airborne division of the United States Army.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The 101st Airborne Division, originally the 101st Air Corps, is an elite unit that played a key role in many historic battles.
- Established in 1942 as the 101st Air Corps, the division has a rich history of parachute assault operations.
- Before World War II, the United States Army formed the Air Corps, an experimental aviation division that paved the way for the US Air Force.
- General Leslie Groves served in the United States Air Corps, predecessor to the modern-day Air Force, during the early 1930s.
- Historians attribute the Army's 1926 decision to rename its air arm from Air Service to Air Corps as an effort to separate its military air component.