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The first Ground Observer Corps was a World War II Civil Defense program of the United States Army Air Forces to protect United States territory against air attack. The 1.5 million civilian observers at 14,000 coastal observation posts performed naked eye and binocular searches to detect German or Japanese aircraft.
The group's true name is TLT-J Special Strategy Mission Group (TLT-J特殊戦略任務班, Tiruto-Jei Tokushu Senryaku Ninmu Han) as members consist of elite cadets in TLT. The squad led by Captain Wakura is known as Night Raider A Unit ( ナイトレイダーAユニット , Naito Reidā Ē Yunitto ) while there are other groups of Night ...
World War II in Yugoslavia (April 1941 to May 1945) Iraq (2–31 May 1941) Syria-Lebanon (8 June – 14 July 1941) Iran (25–31 August 1941) Sicily (9 July – 17 August 1943) Italy (10 July 1943 – 2 May 1945) Corsica (August 1943) Dodecanese (8 September – 22 November 1943) Southern France (15 August – 14 September 1944)
World War II aerial operations and battles of the Eastern Front (2 C, 33 P) Pages in category "Aerial operations and battles of World War II" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
The Douglas C-54 Skymaster is a four-engined transport aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and the Korean War. Like the Douglas C-47 Skytrain derived from the DC-3, the C-54 Skymaster was derived from a civilian airliner, the Douglas DC-4. Besides transport of cargo, the C-54 also carried presidents, prime ...
At the outbreak of World War II, the British government feared a German bombing campaign against the UK mainland. Colonel John Turner, an engineer and retired Air Ministry officer, was tasked, in September 1939, with establishing a broad range of day and night decoys to mislead enemy bombers.
World War II airfields in the China-Burma-India Theater (2 C) E. World War II airfields in the European Theater (8 C, 2 P) R. Royal Air Force stations of World War II ...
On April 27, 1936, the Head of the Italian Government, the fascist leader Benito Mussolini, founded the “Città dell’aria” (Sky City) as the headquarters of DSSE. In 1937 the village was renamed Guidonia-Montecelio to honour Gen. Alessandro Guidoni, a pioneer of the Italian Air Force, who had died while testing a new parachute.