Examples of air raid in the following topics:
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- However, the Chinese nationalist government mobilized the army and air force to attack Japanese Marines in Shanghai on August 13, 1937, which led to the Battle of Shanghai.
- The Japanese government retaliated by ordering massive air raids on civilian targets nearly every major city in China, leaving millions dead, injured and homeless.
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- It is a military strategy distinct from both close air support of ground forces and tactical air power.
- The Royal Air Force (RAF) carried out its first strategic bombing raid on Germany at Mönchengladbach on May 11, 1940.
- In Asia, the Allies dropped over 18 thousand bombs on Thailand and in August 1942, the United States undertook the first air raids in French Indochina.
- In mid 1942, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) arrived in the UK and carried out a few raids across the English Channel.
- The USAAF commanders in Washington, D.C. and in Great Britain adopted the strategy of taking on the Luftwaffe head on, in larger and larger air raids by mutually defending bombers flying over Germany, Austria, and France at high altitudes during the daytime.
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- The Battle of the Coral Sea, May 4-8, 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.
- Luring the American aircraft carriers into a trap and occupying Midway was part of an overall "barrier" strategy to extend Japan's defensive perimeter, in response to the Doolittle air raid on Tokyo.
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- La Guardia also formalized the creation of Civil Air Patrol (CAP) -
the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force - with Administrative Order 9, signed on 1 December 1941 and published 8 December 1941.
- The order outlined the Civil Air Patrol's organization and named its first national commander as Major General John F.
- Under the CAP and its Coast Guard counterpart, the Coast Guard Auxiliary, civilians were trained to spot air raids, participate in search-and-rescue missions, and help with transportation.
- The air crews of the patrol aircraft were to keep in touch with their bases and notify the Army Air Forces and Navy in the area when a U-boat was sighted, and to remain in the area until relieved.
- Examine the role of the Civil Air Patrol and the Civil Defense Corps in monitoring home-front security during World War II.
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- From September 1941, convoys, coming mainly from North America and predominantly going to the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, were protected for the most part by the British and Canadian navies and air forces aided by ships and aircraft of the United States.
- The United States entered the war in the west with Operation Torch in North Africa on 8 November 1942 although in
mid-1942, the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) arrived in the UK and carried out a few raids across the English Channel.
- In January 1943, at the Casablanca Conference, it was agreed Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command operations against Germany would be reinforced by the USAAF in a Combined Operations Offensive plan called Operation Pointblank.
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- The first phase saw the capitulation of the Netherlands, Belgium and France during May and June 1940 and continued into an air war between Germany and Britain that climaxed with the Battle of Britain.
- Emphasis for re-armament was given to air forces with the view that these would be most useful in any future war with Germany.
- During this period, (known as the Phoney War - the period between the fall of Poland and the German invasion on the Low Countries and France), the RAF carried out small bombing raids and a large number of propaganda leaflet raids (code named "Nickels") and the Royal Navy imposed a coastal blockade on Germany.
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operations of the Luftwaffe against the Royal Air Force became known as the
Battle of Britain.
- Air power for the operation was a more even divide.
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- The JCS designated Nimitz as "Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas," with operational control over all Allied units (air, land, and sea) in that area.
- Nimitz's staff also concluded that the Japanese operation might include carrier raids on Allied bases in Samoa and at Suva.
- Nimitz calculated that the aircraft on his three carriers, plus those on Midway Island, gave the U.S. rough parity with Yamamoto's four carriers, mainly because American carrier air groups were larger than Japanese ones.
- In addition, Nimitz also ordered the United States Army Air Forces to mine the Japanese ports and waterways by air with B-29 Superfortresses in a successful mission called Operation Starvation, which severely interrupted the Japanese logistics.
- He held the dual command of Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac), for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for United States and Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.
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- Brown's raid was
quickly defeated by a detachment of U.S.
- Douglass had
prudently turned down Brown's invitation to take part in the raid.
- Many Northern reactions to John Brown's raid are best characterized as
baffled reproach.
- The South found the North's ambivalent attitude toward John Brown's
raid flabbergasting.
- Compare how Southern and Northern states responded to John Brown’s raid
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- For example, it was making no studies of trench warfare, poison gas, or tanks, and was unfamiliar with the rapid evolution of air tactics.
- After the Lusitania was sunk by German U-boats on May 7, 1915, and Pancho Villa launched his raid against Columbus, New Mexico, Wilson's opposition to the Preparedness Movement changed.
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- The Italians halted to bring up supplies, and Operation Compass, a British five-day raid in December 1940, led to the destruction of the Italian 10th Army.
- By early December, German and Italian divisions had been shipped from Europe and the remoteness of Allied airfields from the front line gave the Axis clear air superiority over the battlefield.