Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I tīmata te P-80C production i roto i 1948; i runga i 11 Pipiri, inaianei wahi o te USAF, te P-80C i mana redesignated te F-80C. Ko te USAF Strategic Air Command i F-80 Shooting Stars i te ratonga mai i te 1946 ki te 1948 me te 1st me te 56th Fighter Groups. Ko nga P-80 tuatahi ki te mahi i Uropi i uru atu ki te 55th Fighter Group (i muri mai ka whakaingoatia te 31st FG) i Giebelstadt, Tiamana, i te 1946, e toe ana 18 marama. I te wā i whakapaea ai a Berlin e te Soviet Union
I te marama o Hōngongoi, ko te kapa o te 56th FG i arahina e Colonel David C. Schilling te tuatahi ki te uru-ki te rawhiti o te Moana-a-Kiwa i runga i nga waka rererangi kotahi i te marama o Hōngongoi, e rere ana ki Tiamana mo nga ra 45 i roto i te Operation Fox Able I. I whakakapihia e te roopu 36th Fighter Group i Fürstenfeldbruck, i whakahaeretia e te 56th FG te Fox Able II i te Mei 1949. I taua tau ano ka whakawhiwhia e nga F-80 te 51st Fighter Group, kei Japan.