USAF Band WWII Holiday Flashback 

Thank you for your service sir

I agree, I too am a veteran and grew up listening to this music at home and radio. It's wonderful to hear great music!

Amen🇺🇸🙏❤🇺🇸

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Great- thank you!

Another relative was in the 383rd Pacific Anti Air Defense Command. He stated that at the end, of the war, they were being taught to use anti aircraft weapons as howitzers for the invasion of Japan.

Excelente

+medford briggs Love the vintage uniforms. :)

+medford briggs --I wish the military would go back to those uniforms - as a class A; the "Austrian Green" (Modern Army Green it was called ) was crappy looking.

very sharp indeed! that what i would called a very handsome officers!

congrats. you know that in WWII it was known as the Army Air Corps. My hubby was in the Air Evacuation Unit; never fired a gun, never rushed a fortified enemy, but he was our hero.

@@margaretvogelsang4510 i think it changed to the Army Air Force in 1944.

Right?!?!

We love big band too! Be sure to check out the Airmen of Note playlists!

I, too, am an Air Force brat. Dad was a West Pointer who went with Army Air Corp which became the Air Force. 33 years as a pilot. His father was career Army colonel. His father was career Army Cavalry and he received the Congressional Medal of Honor and it just keeps going back.

well as you say in the USA "go big or go home", eh?

I agree with their excellence but the Marine Band are no slouches.

It was called the US Air Force Museum. Now it called National Museum of the United States Air Force. Things were simpler when I was a kid.

Thanks!

+Frank Lane It was the worst of times and the best of times, now it's all worst.

The greatest Nation? Probably. The most compassionate peace time military in the world? Yes; But, Such a peaceful branch of the US Military can bring upon it's enemy is devastating.

ItalianProud1978 i love your pizza and pasta. 🍕🍝

Thank you!

Not even close. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q49NOyJ8fNA.html

Hi Italy. I'm 1\4 Italian... actually Sicilian. I hope to visit one day. Greetings and Merry Christmas from the U.S.A. 😀

Thanks!

Glad you enjoyed this performance, and thank you for your service!

The U.S. Army will soon be wearing a uniform based on the World War II uniform.

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How? By going back to the 40s? Hardly.

sjtom57: Sadly I had the opposite feeling. Did you or anyone hear any non P.C. words like, GOD? or CHRISTMAS? In this taxpayer funded, Air Force's [de-tribute] to strip God, Christ, Baby Jesus from HIS birthday, so as to promotes Satan's happy snowy, winter solstice celebration, in this once Creator inspired nation? No wonder most folks are going to Hell for Eternity on completion of this short, boot camp [like] training life. It's so sad.

Until you see all the phones. Why don't they just enjoy the moment?

You are not the only one. My dad served in the Navy in the Pacific and I was in Vietnam when he died in an airplane accident in California. After the war, he formed his own dance band and played at the American Legions and VFWs keeping this music alive. He was 46 when he died, I'm 70 now. So many years gone by.

@@TEAMERICA96 I’m so sorry you lost your Dad so young. Thank you very much for your service. Welcome home.

At least some of these musicians are the Airmen of Note who I believe are based at Bolling AFB, which is about a 10 minute drive from Union Station where this was performed.

Duuude I re-watched it and I just noticed that all of the rankings are period correct. Even the Technical Sergeants with the T. But this is kinda funny too since the US Army will be be adopting uniforms very similar to the USAAC historical uniforms.

Hi I'm French from Paris. It's really amazing and I really enjoyed this moment. Thanks very much. Hope they will come in France so I will be able to see them. Merry Christmas to all of you 💓

@@Jo-un6es Duh, This IS a USAF band. Don't you think they would have ALL the reference material they could EVER need to make sure the uniforms are "Period Correct"? BTW, the USAF Bands often get waivers for Uniform requirements for the purpose of enhancing the spirit of the show and the mission of providing good entertainment. Therefore, rank insignia is not always required too be displayed. An example would be the ladies that are dancing in civilian clothes. Also, these USAAC uniforms were originally adopted from the US Army uniforms that is why it was the US Army Air Corps.

@@TEAMERICA96 I'm not sure I understand your question? Are you saying you dont think it was filmed where it says? I was only pointing out that the "Airmen of Note" who I think are a large component of the musicians here are from Bolling because someone mentioned the musicians here were based at Wright Pat.. The airmen of note do regular free concerts at the Reagan building downtown too and I've gotten to hear them a few times.

Thanks so much for your story and for your family's service. We love hearing stories of military families.

@@TheUSAFBand My father’s service inspired both myself and my brother to also join the USAF. I only served for 5 years, but my brother retired after 20. I was enlisted (E5), brother was an officer, I think he was a Lt Col when he retired. He had something to do with rockets and getting the first round of GPS satellites in orbit - one of the cogs in the machine, but I was impressed. “Why, yes, my brother IS a rocket scientist!” 😄

the best of all times

The "original" band was the US Army Air Corp band, not the US Air Force band.

Amen, amen, amen.

+Alton Accola Just like how they record live concerts or live albums and shows. Microphones all over. Singers got their individual microphones as well as most of the individual instruments. At 1:41 you see the oboist with the microphone wire hanging from his oboe and a transmitter at his belt. The double bass player and the guitarist attached wires to their instruments before they started. The brass section were literally dragging their microphone stands, violins are equipped with remote mics as well, and so forth. At 4:44 you see a guy on the far right sitting down in front of his computer controlling the sound for the sound box. Some mics are so small these days you can hardly see them. The wires and transmitters are usually concealed on their clothing. You'll be surprised when you go to a live broadway show and learn that the actors/singers mics are attached to a strand of their hair and you wont notice it unless you stand right in front of them and look for it.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Not Christmas 2020. But be nice if we could all rejoice Christmas and Peace be to Earth for All Man Kind. Thank you USAF.

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Add Glenn Miller to the list as well! 👌🏻 :P

+Brad Agee Brad Agee.... You are SO RIGHT... in fact, Colonel Lang actually plays the trombone, and sometimes performs with the band as he is a dead ringer for Glenn Miller!

+Theresa P Day, That's awesome. I think their arranger is amazing. Snuck some pieces of moonlight serenade in for example

Thank you! Happy holidays!

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ISAF?...It's the 2015 USAF band portraying the 1945 USAAC band.

Thanks!

The video was recorded in 2015.

The musicians are undoubtedly Air Force, but those dancers look like they are classically-trained professional dancers.