U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport Command (ATC) Distinctive Insignia (DI)

The ATC was created during World War II as the strategic airlift component of the U.S. Army Air Forces (AAF). It had two main missions: the first being the delivery of supplies and equipment between the United States and the overseas combat theaters; the second was the ferrying of aircraft from the manufacturing plants in the United States to where they were needed for training or for operational use in combat. ATC also operated a worldwide air transportation system for military personnel.

The development of transport aircraft in the 1920s and 1930s added a new dimension to the art of warfare, and around its varied capacities the AAF built an air transportation system such as had never been envisaged. That system, and its functions, soon became synonymous with the organization which controlled it, the Air Transport Command.

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Air Transport Command (AAF) DI manufactured by N.S. Meyer with its original single hallmark on the back, WWII issue, pin-back, mounted on its tag-paper insignia card in mint condition.