Information:  - The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on 18 September 1947 under the National Security Act of 1947. It is the most recent branch of the U.S. military to be formed, and is the largest and one of the world's most technologically advanced air forces. The USAF articulates its core functions as Nuclear Deterrence Operations, Special Operations, Air Superiority, Global Integrated ISR, Space Superiority, Command and Control, Cyberspace Superiority, Personnel Recovery, Global Precision Attack, Building Partnerships, Rapid Global Mobility and Agile Combat Support.  - The National Security Act of 1947 was a major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II. The majority of the provisions of the Act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense.  - General William Sebastian Stone ( January 6 , 1910 -- December 2 , 1968 ) was an American United States Air Force Major General and the third Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy . His final assignment was as the air deputy to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe . Stone was born at Cape Girardeau , Missouri on January 6 , 1910 . After graduating from high school in St. Louis , he attended the United States Military Academy , and , upon graduation on June 12 , 1934 , was commissioned a Second Lieutenant . Upon completing flying training in October 1935 , he was assigned to the 32nd Bomb Squadron at March Field , California . Two years later , in June 1937 , he entered the California Institute of Technology . He received the degree of master of science in meteorology the following year and was assigned to Fort Lewis , Washington as the Weather Officer . In May 1940 , he was appointed to West Point as an instructor in economics , government and history . After two years at West Point , he was assigned to head the Air Corps Weather Research project at the California Institute of Technology . This assignment was followed by attendance at the Command and General Staff College , Fort Leavenworth , Kansas , and then duty as chief of staff and deputy commander of the Air Corps Weather Wing at Asheville , North Carolina . During this assignment he spent several months on temporary duty in the European , Far Eastern and Pacific theaters . In the summer of 1944 , General Stone was appointed director of Weather Services for the Army Air Force in the Pacific Ocean area and for the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Guam during the bombing raids on Japan . In 1946 , he was appointed chief of staff of the Air Weather Service in Washington , D.C. The following year , he returned to West Point as associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences ; and while in that assignment he earned a master 's degree in economics from Columbia University . In August 1950 , he entered the National War College . Upon...  - The United States Army (USA) is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed (14 June 1775) to fight the American Revolutionary War (17751783)before the U.S. was established as a country. After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784, to replace the disbanded Continental Army. The United States Army considers itself descended from the Continental Army, and dates its institutional inception from the origin of that armed force in 1775.  - The United States Armed Forces are the federal armed forces of the United States. They consist of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. The President of the United States is the military's overall head, and helps form military policy with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), a federal executive department, acting as the principal organ by which military policy is carried out. From the time of its inception, the military played a decisive role in the history of the United States. A sense of national unity and identity was forged as a result of victory in the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War. Even so, the Founders were suspicious of a permanent military force. It played an important role in the American Civil War, where leading generals on both sides were picked from members of the United States military. Not until the outbreak of World War II did a large standing army become officially established. The National Security Act of 1947, adopted following World War II and during the Cold War's onset, created the modern U.S. military framework; the Act merged previously Cabinet-level Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment (renamed the Department of Defense in 1949), headed by the Secretary of Defense; and created the Department of the Air Force and National Security Council.    What entity does 'william s. stone' has the relation 'conflict' with?
world war ii