My grandfather was a tank commander during world war 2. He was just 18 and not deployed yet and the Army selected him and others, that had tested on the higher end of intelligence, to train as a pilot. This was in 1945 and there wasn’t an Air Force at that time. All military aircraft were part of the Army, Navy, or Marines.
He was trained as a pilot of a B-17 some where in the north east. Like New York area. He told me a story of his training.
One day on a practice flight (no trainer), he went in for the landing and only one of the two rear landing gear dropped into landing position. He had to do a touch and go with a hard strip bounce. That worked and dropped the other side wheels down. He went around and made a safe landing. This put him on the deployment list to to the warfront.
The next day, America dropped the atomic bomb.
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