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Introduction Early Air Forces: 1914–18 Airships: 1914–18 Fighters: 1914–18 Bombers: 1914–18 Aircraft on the Western Front Aircraft Losses: 1918 Upheaval in Europe: 1920 The Inter-War Years Empire of the Air Birth of the Luftwaffe Spanish Civil War: 1936–39 Japanese War in China: 1937–41 Clippers: Long-Range Transport: 1934–39 European Air Forces Blitzkrieg: Poland 1939 Scandinavia: Finland 1939–40 Scandinavia: Denmark and Norway 1940 Invasion of the West: 1940 The Battle of Britain: July–September 1940 Bombing: Britain and Germany: 1940–41 Maritime Air Patrol: 1940–41 The Mediterranean: 1940–42 The Balkans: The Fall of Crete Barbarossa: June 1941 Pearl Harbor: December 1941 Fall of Southeast Asia: 1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea: 1942 The Battle of Midway:1942 The Caucasus and Southern Russia: 1942 Stalingrad: 1942–43 Guadalcanal: 1943 Operation Cartwheel Bombing Germany: 1942–44 Attacks on Berlin: 1944 North Africa and the Mediterranean: 1942–43 Sicily and Southern Italy The Eastern Front: March 1943 Ukraine and The Crimea Carriers in The Pacific Battle of the Philippine Sea: June 1944 The Island-Hopping Campaign Closing the Gap: Patrolling The Atlantic D-Day: The Assault D-Day: The Aftermath Market Garden and Varsity: 1944–45 Southeast-Asia: 1944–45 China: 1941–45 Operation Bagration Special Operations: 1941–45 The End of the Reich Bombing the Home Islands: 1945 Nuclear War Berlin Airlift Korea: 1950–53 The Cold War: 1950–89 The Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962 South-East Asia: 1959–75 Indochina and Vietnam Arab-Israeli Wars Air-to-Air Tactics The Falklands War: April–June 1982 The Gulf War: 1991 Afghanistan: 2006 Ukraine 2022 Index