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In the Six-Day War of 1967, the Israeli Air Force launched pre-emptive strikes which destroyed opposing Arab air forces on the ground. [129] The Yom Kippur War of 1973 saw the Arab deployment of mobile 2K12 Kub (SA-6) missiles which proved effective against low-flying Israeli aircraft until they were neutralized by ground forces.
Axis and Soviet air operations during Operation Barbarossa took place over a six-month period, 22 June – December, 1941. Aviation played a critical role in the fighting on the Eastern Front during this period, in the battles to gain and maintain air superiority or air supremacy, to offer close air support to armies on battlefield, interdicting enemy supply lines, while supplying friendly forces.
Air warfare was seen as a growing threat to Germany, and it became a means of national mobilization and redemption. Nazi Germany believed that air warfare would allow the country to rebuild itself in a racial compact. During World War II, air warfare became a means for rejuvenating authority domestically and increasing imperial influence abroad.
Air Enthusiast (82): 18– 23. ISSN 0143-5450. Bedford, Alan (September–October 1999). "Early American Carrier Jets: Evolving Jet Operations with the US Fleet, Part Three". Air Enthusiast (83): 62– 67. ISSN 0143-5450. Fahey, James C. 1946 U.S. Army Aircraft 1908-1946; Grossnick, Roy A. United States Naval Aviation 1910–1995. Naval ...
United States Army in World War II: The War Department (series), United States Army Center of Military History; Craven, Wesley Frank, and Cate, James Lea, editors (1983). The Army Air Forces In World War II, Air Force Historical Studies Office, ISBN 0-912799-03-X (Vol. 1). (1948).
Interwar military aircraft are military aircraft that were developed and used between World War I and World War II, also known as the Golden Age of Aviation.. For the purposes of this list this is defined as aircraft that entered service into any country's military after the armistice on 11 November 1918 and before the Invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II, [2] the ROCAF participated in attacks on Japanese warships on the eastern front and along the Yangtze river and interdiction and close-air support during the Battle of Shanghai in 1937. Chinese sources estimated the Japanese could field ...
Pre World War II Westland Wapiti: United Kingdom: Liaison: 1933 1942 28 [1] World War II Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta: United Kingdom: Transport: 1941 1944 5 Avro Anson I United Kingdom: Basic trainer: 1942 1945 7 [2] Boulton Paul Defiant TT.III United Kingdom: Target tug: 1944 1945 ? Bristol Blenheim I United Kingdom: Bomber: 1941 1942 5 de ...