1950s / 1960s USAF Cold War:
USAF Uniform Transition in the 1950s:
The ‘USAF’ United States Air Force became a separate military service on 18 September 1947 with the implementation of the National Security Act of 1947. With that, there was a sort of surge for men and women to do the new thing, they needed NCOs and officers that had been in the prior USAAF, but also offered a lot to the Infantryman who was through with marching so to speak, and talented michanics and radio experts, and the new field of rocketry and missiles, some were drawn in for better wages, and other benefits, others just had trouble with their commanders, and wanted somewhere different, and others wanted education at least, it was a new mix, a new bread of military, and not the jet age had come to age, and the nuclear weapon had stepped into the scene, it was a new era, and the world would never be the same
His unit patch on the Left Shoulder, Identifies him as deployed with the US Air Force Europe Forces.
USAF, Transport Command Late 1940s:
Technical Sergeant, USAF about 1956:
Senior Airman, Late 1950s USAF:
Master Sergeant, Air Force Base, “Air Police”1950s:
