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BarnBuster

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I’m looking up if the old Army Air Corps had stripes and I can’t find anything.
I just googled my Grandpas name and it comes up as Private First Class Army Air Forces but mentions the POW.
But the guy, after WW2 and the Korean stayed enlisted and worked at that Air Force base down in Atwater for like 20+ more years. He was a big dog supposedly.
Did the army air force legit change into the Air Force and maybe he had a higher ranking? I’ve kinda ran out of relatives to ask
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Aeroknow

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is this what you're looking for?
Ok. That’s hella cool. I do have a photo of him in uniform at some point of his enlistment i’ll try to match up the stripes.
I’m having a problem finding out what rank he ended with. Everything i come up with is an Army rank. @raratt sent me a link explaining the transition into the Air Force. We did receive a letter/response from the military, you might have seen it @BarnBuster don’t think you’d remember it though. My cousin had posted it on the website you helped me with.
The letter had him as Private First Class also. He must have had a higher ranking in the Air Force.
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