Dee ihe na-aga n'ihu maka paragraf a - P-80C malitere mmepụta na 1948; na 11 June, ugbu a akụkụ nke USAF, P-80C bụ onye a na-akpọ 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 nọchibidoro Berlin
, otu ndị agha nke 56th FG nke Colonel David C. Schilling duziri mere njem mbụ nke ọdịda anyanwụ na ọwụwa anyanwụ nke Atlantic site na otu ụgbọelu na-agba ọsọ na July, na-efega Germany maka ụbọchị 45 na Operation Fox Able I. Ejiri 36th Fighter Group nke F-80 ọhụrụ 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.