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Air Service Command / Air Materiel Command

  October 1941 to April 1961

  United States of America

TYPE: USAAF Unit

IATA/ICAO CODES: Nil

HEADQUARTERS: Wright Field, OH

FORMER NAME: Materiel Division

OTHER NAMES: Air Service Command (ASC) (1941-1945), Air Technical Service Command (ATSC) (1945-1946), Air Materiel Command (AMC) (1946-1961)

SUBSEQUENT NAME: Air Force Logistics Command

The Air Service Command, Air Technical Service Command & Air Materiel Command were the USAAF (and later USAF) commands responsible for logistics, aircraft maintenance, research and development during and in the decade that followed World War II. They managed the air depots, which by the post-war period were renamed "materiel areas". The following air depots & air material areas processed Commandos: