The Strategic Role Airpower Played in World War II
This is the destruction of property by enemy agents in time of war.
What is sabotage?
This is the number of Allied planes that BG Billy Mitchell coordinated in the Battle of Saint Mihiel in France in 1918.
What were 1,500 planes?
This is an Air Force unit consisting of two or more flights.
What is a squadron?
This was the general who thought up the combat box formation?
Who was General Curtiss Lemay?
Germany occupied these two territories without firing a shot.
What were Austria and Czechoslovakia?
The term for military persons lost through death, wounds, injury, imprisonment, or missing in action.
What are causualties?
This was the pilot who taught General Hap Arnold how to fly. He was the first pilot, historically speaking.
Who was Orville Wright?
This is an Air Force unit that has two or more elements.
What is a flight?
This was the formation designed to protect heavy bombers against fighter attack during WW II.
What was the combat box formation?
This is the equipment and supplies of a military force.
What is materiel?
This term came to mean the mass murder of some six million Jews, mostly in death camps.
What is Holocaust?
This was one reason the use of airpower morphed so quickly between 1914 and 1918.
What was that no country wanted their soldiers to die in huge numbers?
This is war conducted with great speed and force (also known as "lightning war").
What is a blitzkrieg?
This was one of the main reasons that Allied bombers took such heavy losses in the early part of WW II.
What was not being escorted by fighters?
This is what the United States and Britain decided that the first objective of the Allies would be after the U.S. entered WW II.
What was to defeat Germany?
This country lost more than half of the total number of civilian and military killed worldwide in WW II.
What was the Soviet Union (Russia)?
World War II began in this year and ended in this other year.
What were 1939 and 1945?
this is the term for the coordinated efforts of different military branches.
What are combined arms?
You remember he was the first enlisted pilot... all the way back in WW I.
Who was Vernon Burge?
Question- This was the air campaign that pitted the Royal Air Force against the Luftwafe and began in August 1940.
What was The Battle of Britain?
This was the name Germany gave to its air force.
What was the Luftwaffe?
For the first time in history, this was the key to victory in a major world war, WW II.
What was air power?
He became the chancellor of Germany in 1935.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This is the main result of bombers flying close together and the dropping their bombs.
What was to have a bigger impact over a smaller area?
The Western Allies used this kind of bombers with this piece of technology for daytime precision strikes.
What were B-17 bombers with Norden bombsights?