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The Spanish Republican Air Force was unable to counteract the deadly low-level attacks and close support of the infantry tactics developed by Wolfram von Richthofen during the Civil War. [27] As an air force it became practically ineffective after the Battle of the Ebro in 1938, when the spine of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces was broken ...
Polikarpov I-16 'Mosca', one of the primary aircraft of the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Civil War. The Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed in 1931 and very soon the republican authorities set up to reform an antiquated military structure that was a financial burden for the Spanish state following the Great Depression. [1]
This is a list of aircraft used by the Spanish Nationalist faction in the Spanish Civil War. The aircraft were mainly received from aid from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Aircraft are in chronological order of adoption by the Spanish Nationalist airforce.
List of Spanish Civil War weapons of the Republicans [1] ... List of aircraft of the Spanish Republican Air Force [2] Ships. Spanish Civil War Republican ship classes [3]
A Caudron C.286 of the Nationalist Spanish Air Force. The terms "Aviación Nacional" ("Nationalist Aviation"), "Fuerza Aérea Nacional" ("Nationalist Air Force") and "Ejército Nacional del Aire" ("Nationalist Army of the Air") refer to military air units supporting General Franco against the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War and ...
Spanish Republican Air Force: 2.5 (in Spain; 39 career) Sergei I. Gritsevets: Soviet Union: Spanish Republican Air Force: 6.5 approx. + 11 shared Julio Salvador Díaz-Benjumea: Spain: Nationalist Air Force: 24 José María Bravo: Spain: Spanish Republican Air Force: 23 Manuel Zarauza Clavero: Spain: Spanish Republican Air Force: 23 Manuel ...
Spanish Civil War Medal awarded to the International Brigades. The Yankee Squadron was a group of mercenary American military aviators who flew for the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish Civil War. [1] [2] [3]
Its history goes from the beginning of the Civil War, through the military dictatorship, until 1978 and the first years of the transition to democracy. During the Civil War and the dictatorship, they called themselves the National Army or simply Spanish Army. Due to their loyalty and obedience to Franco, they are also known as the Francoist ...