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WW1 signaled _______? - correct answer Airpower's promise. WWII fulfilled ______? - correct answer The vision. Airpower served as what in every aspect of aerial combat? - correct answer A force multiplier and a vital component of the joint, combined arms campaign. A Superiority proved ______? - correct answer A prerequisite for successful land, sea, or air operations. 1 September 1939, Adolf Hilter launched a massive assault on Poland that spawned the term _______? - correct answer Blitzkreig, "lightning war". The German Air Force is called? - correct answer Luftwaffe The Luftwaffe employed _______________; ____________; and _____________________ to pound Poland's capital, Warsaw. - correct answer Messerschmitt Me-109 fighters; Heinkel He-111; and Dornier Do-17 twin engine bombers. The Luftwaffe used ____________ to attack Polish ground troops and terrorize refugees. - correct answer Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers. In May 1940 _______________. - correct answer Hitler's forces invaded the Netherlands and Belgium. Following the June 1940 defeat of France by the Luftwaffe, the victors faces Britain's Royal Navy in the ____________. - correct answer Battle of Britain, the first all-air campaign in history.
The Luftwaffe had ___ medium bombers, ___ dive bombers, ___ single engine fighters, ___ twin-engine fighters, and ___ long-range reconnaissance aircraft to fight the British Royal Navy. - correct answer 1232, 406, 813, 282, and 50. Opposing the Luftwaffe, ____________ assembled ____ operational aircraft, including roughly _____ Hawker Hurricanes, and ___ Supermarine Spitfires. - correct answer Air Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding's Fighter Command, 704, 400, and 200. Luftwaffe vs SHD's Fighter Command: Despite the mismatch, Luftwaffe suffered major weaknesses: ____________. - correct answer Forces in France need rest and refitting. German equipment, training, and experience proved ill-suited to long- range strategic air campaign. SHD's Fighter Command used Sir Robert Watson-Watts innovation, the ______, to create an effect, integrated air defense system. - correct answer Radar. Sir Hugh Dowding cracked the Enigma machine and an info gained from it was _______ and known as _________. - correct answer Top Secret, ULTRA. Underestimating British radar, German's first attacked the Royal airfields, then after the Royal Air Forced bombed Berlin 24 August 1940, they switched to _____________.
- correct answer A terror bombing against London. By ____ September _____, Hitler abandoned his planned invasion of Britain. - correct answer 15, 1940. Winston Churchill stated, "____________" in tribute to the Royal Air Force Fighter Command. - correct answer Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. President Franklin Roosevelt's to fight Nazi tyranny was bolstered by the ________. - correct answer Fall of France in June 1940. Roosevelt turned to _______ as a major weapon, and called for American industry to build _____ military aircraft. - correct answer Airpower, 50k.
TSgt Whalen - correct answer awarded silver star, hit 3x, Operation Freedom's Sentinel - correct answer Operation where 11,000 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan in 2015 and pursue both continuing the counter-terrorism mission against the remnants of Al-Qaeda; NATO-led SrA Cunningham - correct answer posthumously awarded AF Cross; Afghanistan TSgt/MSgt John Chapman - correct answer posthumously awarded AF Cross 2003; Medal of Honor 2018 (1st AF member to receive medal of honor since Vietnam conflict) SMSgt Colon-Lopez - correct answer received Bronze Star with Valor, Combat Action Medal A1C Elizabeth Jacobson - correct answer first security forces airman & first female to die in Operation Iraqi Freedom; award created for airmen during deployment Operation Iraqi Freedom - correct answer March 2003 Operation where U.S. troops invaded Iraq and Saddam's forces collapsed almost immediately. Baghdad fell, and Saddam and other Iraqi leaders went into hiding. In the months that followed Saddam and many of his supporters were captured Operation New Dawn - correct answer September 1, 2010 marks the end of operation Iraqi Freedom; transition to supporting role and training Iraqi security forces SSgt Scott Sather - correct answer 1st airman killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom, helped overthrow Iraqi regime Operation Odyssey Dawn - correct answer War on Terror--Libya March 20, 2011
Aircraft launched to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1973 Operation Inherent Resolve - correct answer 2014, in response to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL); severe brutality used Operation ARGUMENT - correct answer (AKA Big Week) (Feb 19-26, 1944) o Spaatz o Attacked major aircraft production centers in Germany Destroyed huge number of German fighters o Forced Germans to use irreplaceable fuel supplies and suffer the loss of experienced pilots at a time when their flying schools were unable to make good Also built increased dispersion of several industries (very costly)
