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[PDF File] Airlift and Airborne Operations in World War II - U.S.
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Allied use of extensive bombing as well as tactical air strikes. Mitchell’s planned aerial assault, moreover, included dramatic use of airborne forces. He proposed an airdrop of an entire U.S. infantry division behind the German lines, using Handley-Page bombers from the British Royal Air Force (RAF), followed by subsequent air cargo missions ...
A war won in the skies: Air superiority in the Second World War
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The skies burned over Europe as the gleaming wings of thousands of metal. warplanes took to the air to do battle; the fate of the world hung in the balance. From. 1939 to 1945 the Allied and Axis powers waged a constant struggle to stake their claim. as masters of the land, sea, and air.
[PDF File] Patrol Aviation in the Pacific in WW II - NHHC
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the combined Allied Forces attacked a fleet of 31 Japanese ships in Makas- sar Strait, and for a short time turned the Japanese back. Patrols continued. Toward the end of February, the wing moved south to Darwin. On February 19, the Japanese attacked, destroying all the planes there and badly damaging Preston.
[PDF File] THE LUFTWAFFE AND THE BATTLE FOR AIR …
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Allied bomber raid on Cologne. 13. Even after local uni fication, however, the regional organizations were never subordinated to an overarching defense command, re sulting in unnecessary competition for resources and poor coordination. 14 . Prewar Luftwaffe doctrine was pessimistic about defensive fighter effectiveness, illu
THE ITALIAN WAR EFFORT AND THE STRATEGIC …
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100,000 Allied airmen and at its peak absorbed 40 per cent of the industrial capacity of Britain alone; 600,000 civilians were slaughtered and well-built ... production, which reached 424 planes a month in March 1941, dropped to 227 in November 1941.13 Yet it is not true that Germany starved her ally of necessary supplies: by and large Germany ...
[PDF File] The WWII Fighter Gun Debate
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2 McKay, Gorka L. Martinez Mezo, Yuji Sasaki, and Antonio Maraziti. If you have any additional information for this page, you can e-mail me at gustin@uia.ua.ac.be.
[PDF File] What were the Roles and Capabilities of Allied Airpower …
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The Allied air interdiction campaign from 19 March to 10 May 1944, Operation STRANGLE, represented an unrealistic enthusiasm of airpower capabilities based on its prior successes. Attempting to break the stalemate in Italy solely through airpower, STRANGLE’s objective was to force a German withdrawal by interdicting supply lines, inflicting ...
[PDF File] Operation POINTBLANK: A Tale of - United States Air Force …
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German armament production. Allied intelligence authorities had estimated that German reserves of bearings were so low that any disruption of the industry would have made its efforts felt immediately on aircraft production. Finally, the industry was highly concentrated geographically; 64% of German
Louisiana State University LSU Scholarly Repository
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Allied air forces dropped nearly 2.7 million tons of bombs, flew 1,440,000 bomber sorties and 2,680,000 fighter sorties. The number of men lost in air action was 79,265 Americans and 79,281 British. More than 18,000 American and 22,000 British planes were lost or damaged beyond repair. Bombing raids on Germany destroyed 3,600,000
The History of Close Air Support - JSTOR Home
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ground force commander. Centralized control of airpower under the Allied Expeditionary Air Force (AEAF) was also a façade. United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe (USSTAF) and particularly Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris’s RAF Bomber Command played to their own sheet of music, unless browbeaten by Ike.
[PDF File] FACT SHEET The D-Day Invasion at Normandy – June 6, 1944
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Invasion Area The Allied code names for the beaches along the 50- mile stretch of Normandy coast targeted for landing were Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. Omaha was the costliest beach in terms of Allied casualties. The Armada 5,000 ships and landing craft . 50,000 vehicles . 11,000 planes
[PDF File] American Production During WWII - The National WWII …
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The National WWII Museum. “Out-Producing the Enemy:”. American Production During WWIIBefore the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered WWII in December 1941, the American economy was still. weak from The Great Depression. In 1939, the US unemployment rate was high at 17.2% and America’s military was small, …
[PDF File] United States Strategic Bombing Survery: Summary Reports …
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American and 22,000 British planes were lost or damagedbeyond repair. In the wakeofthese attacks there are great paths ofdestruction. In Germany, 3,600,000 dwelling units, approximately 20%ofthe total, were destroyed or heavily damaged. Survey estimates show some300,000 civilians killed and780,000 wounded. Thenumber madehomeless …
[PDF File] LOSSES IN THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY JUNE 3-7, 1942
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Carrier Aircraft Lost: 109. Grumman F4F-3/-4, "Wildcat" Fighter Douglas SBD-2/-3, "Dauntless" Dive. Carrier Bomber. Nakajima B5N2, "Kate" Carrier Attack Plane Lost in Midway Air Strike: 6 Lost in Combat Air Patrol: 12 Lost in Attacks Against U.S. Carriers: 24 Lost with Carriers when They Sunk: 219. TOTAL: 261.
[PDF File] Island Hopping in WW II - NHHC
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Naval Aviation in WW II. Island Hopping in WW II. The Marianas. I n February 1944, with the Mar- shalls in hand and Truk’s weak- ness exposed, Rear Admiral Marc Mitscher headed for the Mariana Is- lands with two of his task groups of Task Force (TF) 58. A Japanese scout plane spotted the force on the 22nd, and the carriers fought …
[PDF File] “P “Winged Tank” Map of Europe Lesson Assignment
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“Although a few -17 planes were used to fight in the Pacific Theatre, most were used for bombing raids over Europe. The B-17s were used to combat the Luftwaffe (Germany’s Air Force) and bomb key military targets in Germany. This was a key component of the Allied strategy in the European Theatre. Watch the video “-17 and the all Turret”
[PDF File] Kamikazes! When Japanese Planes Attacked the U.S.
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When Japanese Planes Attacked the U.S. Submarine Devilfish. by NATHANIEL PATCH. The. image of desperate Japanese pilots purposely flying their planes into American warships in the closing months of World War II figures prominently in American popular culture. When most people hear the term kamikaze, they think of swarms of planes …
[PDF File] Naval Aviation in WW II The Kamikazes: J a P anese Suicide …
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fleets of Allied bombers. The Bachem Ba 349 Natter (Viper), a vertically- launched, rocket-propelled interceptor, was armed with 24 73mm unguided rockets in the nose. The Natter, though flight tested with limited success, was never used in combat. The Japanese were interested in this disposable
[PDF File] Conquering the Night - U.S. Department of Defense
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Allied air forces had established air superiority over the battlefield and behind their own lines, and so Axis air forces had to exploit the night’s protection for their attacks on Allied installations. AAF night fighters sought to deny the enemy use of the night for these attacks. Also, by 1944 Allied daylight
[PDF File] Naval Aviation “in WW II - NHHC
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Operating from bases in the newly won Gilberts, patrol planes flew long-range searches and photoreconnaissance in support f the invasion force. In a near textbook operation, the invasion ofKwajalein and Majuro, supported by the carriers and gunfire support ships ofthe 5th Fleet, was completed on February 4, 1944.
[PDF File] Appendix 3 - Submarines Sunk by Patrol Aircraft During …
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Fate: Sunk 28 January 1944, west of Limerick, in position 53°15'N, 15°52'W, by a PB4Y-1 Liberator of VB-103. 51 dead (entire crew lost). Lieutenant George C. Enloe and crew caught the U-boat on the surface and dropped six depth charges. The submarine quickly set-tled by the stern and slid beneath the surface.
[PDF File] CURRICULUM MATERIALS - The National WWII Museum
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To disrupt the German response to an Allied invasion, the American and British air armadas destroyed bridges, rail yards, moving trains, and airfields in Belgium and northern France. And in a steady succession of massive bombing raids over Berlin and other Nazi production centers, the Allied fighter planes that escorted the heavy
The French Armée de l'Air in May-June 1940: A Failure of
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123 ground-attack aircraft.3 The total number of Allied bombers was about 500, but the French Armee de l'Air was still in the process of re-equipping and, while many of its units had obsolete machines which could only be used at night, those units equipped with the brand new Lior&-et-Olivier LeO 451 were suffering from problems with the overly
[PDF File] combat chronology - U.S. Department of Defense
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12/7/41 International Japan attacks Hawaii and other US and British possessions in the Pacific without warning. Japan already is at war with China, and Great Britain is at war with the Axis powers, Germany and Italy,
[PDF File] THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN The African American Pilots of WWII
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C. Alfred “Chief” Anderson is one of the most famous of the pilots in the Tuskegee Airmen story. In 1929, Anderson had earned his pilot’s license, and went on to become the first African American to earn a commercial pilot’s certification in 1932. In March 1941, Anderson took First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on a 30-minute flight in a biplane.
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