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Lee, dressed in flying gear, leans against her plane.

As bombing raids over mainland Europe began in the summer of 1942, leadership from the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) also understood the need for air support in the Pacific, and China-Burma-India Theaters of Operations. In July 1942, the USAAF created the China Air Task Force (CATF).

Services of Supply (SOS) soldiers build a locomotive at the assembly plant in St. Nazaire.

When the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, the American Regular Army stood at 130,000, a paltry number of soldiers for a nation that had just entered a global conflict. Gen. John J.

The poster reads "Back Our Girls Over There."

Watch "Selling" World War I to the American Public: How Posters Shaped Public Opinion. During a Facebook Live chat, ABMC staff members Eric Marr and Sarah Herrmann looked at four posters used in the United States during WWI.

A historic photo showing a flying boat on the water outside the factory.

When the United States entered World War I, an independent U.S. Air Force did not exist. Aviation was in its infancy. The U.S. Army and Navy had pursued peacetime American military aviation with no need to support the fledging technology on a massive scale.

Walls of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.

In World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, millions of Americans served far from home. In the various conflicts, service members fought in the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific. They traversed mountains in Italy, France, Korea and Vietnam.

Historic photo showing rows of women in long dresses, capes and hats.

Under artillery fire southwest of Arras, France on July 14, 1917, Capt. Louis J. Genella of the U.S. Army’s Medical Reserve Corps, became the first combat casualty of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF).

Color photo of Spaatz in uniform.

On July 4th, 1942 the first American bomber mission flown from England by the U.S Army Air Forces (AAF) flew towards the occupied Netherlands.

Rows of marble headstones dot the landscape with the English Channel in the background.

Due to security concerns, the pathway from Normandy American Cemetery to the beach is not open to the public. However, public beach access is available nearby.

Historic photo shows soldiers in uniform with flowers.

Just after their arrival in France some American soldiers became a symbol of deliverance for the French people. The first American Expeditionary Forces’ (AEF) contingent landed in France in late June 1917 at Saint-Nazaire.  The war would soon enter its fourth year with no end in sight.