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[[File:B-17 Terror Bombers over Germany.jpg|thumb|260px|B-17 Bombers of the USAAF over Germany in [[World War II]]]]
[[File:Germany liberation.jpg|260px|thumb|right|German view of their "Liberation" in the closing months of WWII showing USAAF fighters straffing civilians.]]
The '''United States Army Air Forces''' (USAAF) were established on 20 June 1941 as the successor of the [[United States Army Air Corps]]. On 18 September 1947 the USAAF became an entirely separate branch of the military known as the [[United States Air Force]].

==World War II==
During [[World War II]] the USAAF brought thousands of its heavy bombers and accompanying fighter planes to [[Europe]], which was no threat whatsoever to the USA, and indiscriminately bombed towns and cities across Europe, from neutral [[France]] (including Nimes, with its magnificent, intact, Roman buildings and viaducts), and [[Italy]], to the Baltic, bringing deliberate death and destruction to hundreds of thousands of non-combatants and destroying a millennia of Europe's architectural heritage. In 1944 the USAAF bombed [[Bratislava]], despite Slovakia being a neutral state.

Other examples include [[Halberstadt]], a town in Saxony-Anhalt, [[Germany]]; and [[Swinemunde]] which was virtually demolished by them in March 1945 with huge loss of life, and [[Dresden]], which had already been horrifically bombed and wrecked by the [[RAF]], was a USAAF exercise in blowing up rubble and murdering those attempting to help the survivors of the RAF's previous night.

In 1944-45 they proceeded to regularly bomb the largely untouched magnificence of [[Vienna]], causing major damage including hitting St Stephen's Cathedral (consecrated in 1147) and the auditorium of the Vienna State Opera. At the very end of the war they even bombed [[Bayreuth]] a country town whose only claim to fame was its theatre and other architectural monuments.<ref>Hamann, Brigitte, ''Winifred Wagner'', 1st English edition, London, 2005, pps:394-399: "Bayreuth Bombed", ISBN 1-86207-671-5</ref> Their fighter planes strafed defenceless civilians and others mercilessly including women and children.

Their activities had little known effect, either then or now, on the outcome of the war and must be viewed as wanton murder. The Americans' being in Europe, and raining death and destruction upon its peoples, was widely condemned by many<ref>Friedrich, Jörg. ''Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940–1945'', Propyläen Verlag, Munich, 2002. ISBN 3-549-07165-5</ref>, including the famous Swedish explorer, [[Sven Hedin]], in his book: ''Amerika im Kampf der Kontinente''.

Total United States Army Air Forces [[sortie]]s flown in Europe during World War II until [[8 May 1945]] were '''1,693,565'''.<ref>Correll, John T., "The US Army Air Forces at war: a statistical portrait of USAAF in World War II", in ''AIR FORCE'' magazine, Journal of the Air Force Association, June 1995, p.32.</ref>

==See also==
* [[Bombing of Germany during World War II]]
* [[Aerial bombings in Italy during WWII]]
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