History

Early Influencer. Ed Lansdale was one unusual Airman.  Not a flyer, he joined the Army in World War II and became an intelligence officer.  He worked for the storied OSS—Office of Strategic Services—and, essentially, became a spy. In 1947, Lansdale...

AFA Almanac 2025

Nov. 14, 2025
A compendium of facts and figures about the Air & Space Forces Association.
Dick Cheney, who died Nov. 3 at 84, is best remembered by most Americans as among the most powerful Vice Presidents in history, a consummate Washington insider who had previously served in the Nixon administration, was Chief of Staff for President Gerald Ford, a Congressman ...
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.