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The ___MASK87___ ( USAF ) is the aerial warfare service branch of the ___MASK45___ 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 . Sidney K . " Sid " Meier ( born February 24 , 1954 ) is a ___MASK58___ , designer , and producer of several popular strategy video games and simulation video games , most notably the " Civilization " series . Meier co - founded MicroProse in 1982 with Bill Stealey and is the Director of Creative Development of Firaxis Games , which he co - founded with ___MASK77___ and Brian Reynolds in 1996 . He has won several prestigious accolades for his contributions to the video game industry . The ___MASK82___ System / 360 introduced byte - addressable memory with 8 - bit bytes , as opposed to bit - addressable or decimal digit - addressable or word - addressable memory , although its general purpose registers were 32 bits wide , and addresses were contained in the lower 24 bits of those addresses . Different models of System / 360 had different internal data path widths ; the ___MASK82___ System / 360 Model 30 ( 1965 ) implemented the 32 - bit System / 360 architecture , but had an 8 bit native path width , and performed 32 - bit arithmetic 8 bits at a time . F - 19 Stealth Fighter is a combat flight simulator developed and released in 1988 ( DOS ) and 1990 ( Amiga and ___MASK21___ ST ) by MicroProse , featuring a fictional United States military aircraft . It is the 16 - bit remake of the 8 - bit game " Project Stealth Fighter ", which was released for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1987 ; in 1992 , it was also ported to the NEC PC - 9801 in Japan only . Critically acclaimed , the game was followed by "" in 1991 . In April 2015 the original game was re - released on Steam distribution platform . F - 19 was developed before the F - 117 stealth bomber was publicly revealed , and the aircraft of the game bears little resemblance to actual F - 117 . Instead , game designers relied on the F - 19 model kit released by Testors in 1986 . The appearance of aircraft that appears in " Night Hawk : F - 117A Stealth Fighter 2 . 0 " matches the real F - 117 , however players of the second game are offered the choice of flying a fictitious version that carries more stores . World War II ( often abbreviated to WWII or WW2 ), also known as the Second World War , was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 , although related conflicts began earlier . It involved the vast majority of the world ' s nations  including all of the great powers  eventually forming two opposing military alliances : the Allies and the Axis . It was the most widespread war in history , and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries . In a state of " total war ", the ___MASK84___ participants threw their entire economic , industrial , and scientific capabilities behind the war effort , erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources . Marked by mass deaths of civilians , including the Holocaust ( in which approximately 11 million people were killed ) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres ( in which approximately one million were killed , and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities . These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history . The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc ( the Soviet Union and its satellite states ) and powers in the Western Bloc ( the United States , its NATO allies and others ). Historians do not fully agree on the dates , but a common timeframe is the period ( the second half of the 20th century ) between 1947 , the year the Truman Doctrine ( a U . S . policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism ) was announced , and 1991 , the year the Soviet Union collapsed . The ___MASK52___ , also known as the C64 , C - 64 , C = 64 , or occasionally CBM 64 or VIC - 64 in Sweden , is an 8 - bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International . It is listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest - selling single computer model of all time , with independent estimates placing the number sold between 10 and 17 million units . Volume production started in early 1982 , marketing in August for . Preceded by the Commodore VIC - 20 and Commodore PET , the C64 took its name from its of RAM . It had superior sound and graphical specifications compared to other earlier systems such as the Apple II and ___MASK21___ 800 , with multi - color sprites and a more advanced sound processor . The ___MASK21___ ST is a line of home computers from ___MASK21___ Corporation and the successor to the ___MASK21___ 8 - bit family . The initial ST model , the 520ST , saw limited release in the spring of 1985 and was widely available in July . The ___MASK21___ ST is the first personal computer to come with a bit - mapped color GUI , using a version of Digital Research ' s GEM released in February 1985 . The 1040ST , released in 1986 , is the first personal computer to ship with a megabyte of RAM in the base configuration and also the first with a cost - per - kilobyte of less than US $ 1 . Project Stealth Fighter is a combat flight simulator released in 1987 by MicroProse , featuring a fictional United States military aircraft . During the time of the game ' s release there was heavy speculation surrounding a missing aircraft in the ___MASK87___ ' s numbering system , the F - 19 . " Project Stealth Fighter " was later remade for the 16 - bit systems as " F - 19 Stealth Fighter " with much improved graphics . F - 117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2 . 0 is the 1991 sequel / remake of the 1988 - 1990 Cold War combat flight simulator video game F - 19 Stealth Fighter by MicroProse ( itself a remake of the 1987 ' s Project Stealth Fighter ) . The original PC version was updated with a corrected aircraft model once the F - 117 Nighthawk was declassified and with 256 - color VGA graphics instead of the original ' s 16 - color EGA , among other changes . Tommo Inc . purchased the rights to this game and digitally publishes it through its Retroism brand in 2015 . In October 2014 the game was released on Steam . The Amiga is a family of personal computers sold by Commodore in the 1980s and ___MASK25___ . Based on the ___MASK24___ 68000 family of microprocessors , the machine has a custom chipset with graphics and sound capabilities that were unprecedented for the price , and a pre - emptive multitasking operating system called AmigaOS . The Amiga provided a significant upgrade from earlier 8 - bit home computers , including Commodore ' s own C64 . John Wilbur " Wild Bill " Stealey Sr . ( born 1947 ) is a retired ___MASK87___ lieutenant colonel and the current CEO of iEntertainment Network . MicroProse was an American video game publisher and developer founded by " Wild " Bill Stealey and ___MASK9___ in 1982 as MicroProse Software Inc . It developed and published numerous games , many of which are regarded as groundbreaking , classics and cult titles , including starting the " Civilization " and " X - COM " series . Most of their internally developed titles were vehicle simulation and strategy games .