The VIII Bomber Command is an inactive United States Army Air Forces unit that is better known as the later appellation Eighth Air Force, as was popularized in post-World War II films—and is frequently called the First Eighth Air Force by its veterans and successors in the services.The command was the first strategic bombing organisation sent to England as the United States Armed Forces joined the war against the axis powers in early 1942.
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