The United States Army has traditionally been considered the “ground-pounding” (as it were) branch of the US Armed Forces, and understandably so, what with the prevalence of the Artillery (“King of Battle;” or less formally, “cannon cockers”), Infantry (“Queen of Battle”), and Armor branches and whatnot. This became especially true in September 1947, when the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) broke away from the Army and became the independent branch of service we know and love as the US Air Force (USAF), and took dang near all the fighter planes and bombers with them.
