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Movements and Operations? |date=October 2013}} Assistant Chief{{sfn|Van Citters & Bissen}} (AC/AS OC&R).

The Office of Flying Safety was established 1 October 1943 at the Winston-Salem facilities of the old Directorate of Flying Safety and replaced the Flight Control Command.{{sfn|Craven|Cate|1951b1955|page=70}} Colonel S.R. Harris had been the Director of Flying Safety from 10 March 1942 until 29 March 1943.{{sfn|Craven|Cate|1951a1955}}<ref>See appendix at http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/VI/AAF-VI-APPENDIX.html.</ref>

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*[[Army Airways Communications System]] on 26 April 1943 (reassigned to [[Air Transport Command]] as the Air Communications Service on 13 March 1946)<ref name="af">{{cite web|url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/433902/air-force-communications-command/|title=Factsheets : Air Force Communications Command|date=10 January 2008|publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency|access-date=13 August 2015}}</ref>

*[[Weather Wing]] beginning 14 April 1943 (transferred to HQ AAF as the "Army Air Forces Weather Wing" on 6 July 1943)<ref name="af2">{{cite web|url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=13509 |title=Factsheets : Air Force Weather Agency (USAF) |last=Bailey |first=Carl E. |date=12 March 2009 |publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023065329/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=13509 |archive-date=2013-10-23 |access-date=13 August 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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==References==

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* {{cite book |last1=Craven |first=W.F. |last2=Cate |first=J.L. |title=The Army Air Forces in World War II Volume VI: Men and Planes: Appendix |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/VI/AAF-VI-APPENDIXindex.html ||publisher=United States Army via ibiblio.org|date=1955a1955|access-date=20152022-08-1307}}

* {{cite book |last1=Craven |first=W.F. |last2=Cate |first=J.L. |title=The Army Air Forces in World War II Volume VI: Men and Planes |url= |publisher=United States Army via ibiblio.org|date=1955b|access-date=}}

* {{Cite book |last=Frye |first=Richard W (foreword) |year=2004 |title=AACS Alumni Association: 1938-2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=raDlmenz-csC&pg=PA18 |format=Google Books |publisher=Turner Publishing |isbn=9781563119767 |access-date=2013-10-16 }}

* {{Cite report |last=Futrell |first=Robert F. |publisher=Air Historical Office | date=July 1947 |title=Development of AAF Base Facilities in the United States: 1939-1945 |volume=ARS-69: US Air Force Historical Study No 69 (Copy No. 2) |page=250 (index) }}</ref>