Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: The P-80C malitere mmepụta na 1948; na 11 June, ugbu a akụkụ nke USAF, na P-80C e eze redesignated na F-80C. The USAF Strategic Air Command nwere F-80 Shooting Stars na ọrụ site na 1946 site na 1948 na 1st na 56th Fighter Groups. Ndị mbụ P-80s na-eje ozi na Europe sonyeere 55th Fighter Group (mgbe e mesịrị redesignated 31st FG) na Giebelstadt, Germany, na 1946, fọdụrụ ọnwa 18. Mgbe Soviet Union
Mgbe ndị agha nke 56th FG nke Colonel David C. Schilling duziri nọchibidoro Berlin, otu ndị agha nke 56th FG mere njem mbụ nke ọdịda anyanwụ-ọwụwa anyanwụ nke Atlantic site na otu ụgbọelu ụgbọelu na July, na-efega na Germany maka ụbọchị 45 na Operation Fox Able I. Ejiri 36th Fighter Group nke ọhụrụ F-80 na Fürstenfeldbruck, 56th FG mere Fox Able II na May 1949. N'otu afọ ahụ F-80s mbụ kwadebere 51st Fighter Group, dabere na Japan.