 The P-80C akatanga kugadzirwa muna 1948; musi 11 June, zvino chikamu USAF, kuti P-80C akanga pamutemo redesignated ari F-80C. The USAF Strategic Air Command aiva F-80 Shooting Stars mubasa kubva 1946 kuburikidza 1948 pamwe 1st uye 56th Fighter Groups. The P-80s wokutanga kushumira muEurope akabatana 55th Fighter Group akazotumidza 31st FG pana Giebelstadt, Germany, muna 1946, yasara 18 mwedzi. Apo Soviet Union yakavhara Berlin, chikwata 56th FG inotungamirirwa Colonel David C. Schilling akaita wokutanga yokumadokero-to-kumabvazuva Atlantic kuyambuka nokuda chete-engined jets muna July, achibhururuka kuGermany kwemazuva 45 muna Operation Fox Able I. Anotsiviwa idzva F-80-vakashongedzerwa 36th Fighter Group pana Fürstenfeldbruck, 56th FG akaita Fox Able II muna May 1949. Gore iroro chairo maF-80 akatanga kugadzirira 51st Fighter Group, yakavakirwa muJapan. 