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On 7 July 1937 a military clash between Japanese Army and Chinese Army units broke out near Beijing (Peking), while early in August a Japanese Marine officer was killed in Shanghai. These incidents were employed as āCause cĆ©lĆØbresā to allow what rapidly became a full-scale war to develop between the two countries which would last until 1945. Nevertheless, it remained…
Departing for Tripoli Colonel Westbrook launched and recovered planes at RAF Lakenheath for Exercise Salty Nation until 1500 U.K. time on Monday, 14 April. After that time all planes taking off from the British base would be bound for Tripoli. The F-111F mission crews started gathering at 48 TFW in…
Hitting Qaddafi On the evening of 14 April the attention of the Qaddafi regime was still focused on the carriers of Task Force 60, not the F-111Fs approaching from the west, but that was about to change. As the F-111Fs and their support aircraft traveled the long way in getting…
āToday, We Have Done What We Had to Doā At approximately 1913 Washington time, Weinberger and Crowe received their first post-strike report. CINCEUR tersely stated, āRaid commander reports all aircraft feet wet.ā Everyone in the command center was overjoyed. It appeared that the raid had been carried out without any…
Before exploring aviationās contribution to the Russian battlefield in 1916, it is important to consider some of the differences between the Eastern and Western fronts. The Western Front was much shorter, only about 400 miles, yet its combat zone contained a significant concentration of British, French, and German soldiers, accompanied…
The German seaplane base on Lake Angern posed a threat not only to the aviation presence on Runo Island but also to the passage of Russian naval vessels in the gulf. The Russians responded quickly. Using the radio unit on Runo, the navy ordered the Second Bombing-Reconnaissance Squadron to send…
Art by Romain Hugault During the 1941ā2 campaign in Burma the Japanese Army and Navy Air Forces had swept from the skies the Royal Air Forceās older fighters and bombers, which simply could not compete with the newer types of Japanese aircraft. The main Japanese fighter, the Ki-43, could even…
The construction of FlaktĆ¼rme (Flak towers) in major cities began in response to the first…
Douglas A-20 Havoc Douglas Aircraft developed the Model 7B twin-engine light attack bomber in the…
Russian MiG-15 Aces in Korea, from left to right: Aleksandr P. Smorchkov (8 kills), Nikolai…
Final Encounter (Spitfire v Messerchmitt) by Michael Turner. Wing Commander J E Johnnie Johnson, Spitfire…
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