Description: Fifteenth Air Force during WWII
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The Fifteenth Air Force
Major General Nathan F. Twining
Fifteenth Air Force was established on 1 November 1943 as part of the United States Army Air Forces in the World War II Mediterranean Theater of Operations as a strategic air force and commenced combat operations the day after it was formed. The first commander was General Jimmy Doolittle .