Air Corps
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6.8
- proper noun
- /ɛr kɔrz/
- Archaic
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Cuerpo Aéreo
- Following his college career, Harmon served as a pilot in the Army Air Corps in World War II, surviving one crash caused by a storm and another caused by Japanese fire over China.
- Army Air Corps
Examples
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Major Winslow is a smooth, handsome, well-briefed officer in the casualty branch of the Army Air Corps; he's done his homework, but he's not all business.
Fiction book (1999) -
The first P-51s were built with the P-40's Allison V-12 engine and sold to the British and US Army Air Corps, among others.
Blog text (34) -
We appreciate all the hard work you and your crew are putting in for the US Army Air Corps.
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It's a spy plane for the Air Corps.
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I'm in the Air Corps.
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Second, my father was in the logistics section of the Army Air Corps.
Blog text (20) -
In 1941, Parks got a job at Maxwell Field, a nearby Army Air Corps base.
Academic text (2004) -
Stewart was an up-and-coming actor when he chose to give it all up and join the Army Air Corps in 1942.
Blog text (15) -
Starting in 1939, a company called Radioplane manufactured its first unmanned aircraft that would be used by the U.S. Army Air Corps to train gunners.
Academic text (2003) -
Joe was a staff sergeant in the Air Corps during World War II.
Synonyms
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2.8
A branch of a country's military that uses planes to fight and protect the country
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derived from combining 'air' (aviation) with 'corps' (a military formation), i.e. a military corps responsible for aviation. Although it names a specific historical unit, the compositional logic is straightforward and mirrors equivalent constructions in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand the meaning.
Etymology
Air Corps was the army's name for its flying group. The word Corps means a large group of soldiers and Air shows they worked in the sky, so the name describes the army unit that used planes before the Air Force was created.