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On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. With out the first airplane there would be no bombings or dogfights.
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During World War II, 276,000 aircraft were manufactured in the US. In total, 43,581 aircraft were lost during the war. Over 14,000 aircraft were lost in the continental U.S. due to accidents. Between training and aircraft malfunctions. America averaged 170 planes lost a day from 1942-1945. That’s 7 per hour. For three years straight!
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World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on September 3. The war between the U.S.S.R. and Germany began on June 22, 1941, with the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Aircraft will be significantly used in this war.
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The Germans were known for Blitzkrieg attack. These lightning fast attacks would serve to make breaks in enemy lines from the air. As breaks were made in the line by the planes, the Germans on the ground would move into the enemy hold. The planes would fly in to the zones in groups, hit quickly, and then move our quickly. This method was how Germany was able to successfully invade Poland.
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Germany and Japan took combat to the skies immediately during World War II, launching aggressive air strikes. Technological advances in aviation during the war included improvements to long-range bombers, experimentation with jet-powered aircraft, and the use of radar to find enemy targets and detect enemy planes. Planes became faster, and fuel consumption also improved during the war. Radar would allow for more precision attacks on the enemy.
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The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British press and originated from the term "Blitzkrieg", the German word for 'lightning war'. This strategy is how the Germans gained Poland, they did not gain Great Britain.
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Japan was known for its kamikaze pilots. These were suicide pilots who would attack the Allies by diving into the targets. The name kamikaze means “divine wind.” By the end of World War II, over 2500 Kamikaze pilots had scarified themselves. Over 5000 Allied members died because of the Kamikaze attacks.
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In the early morning of December 7, 1941 the Japanese came into the islands of Hawaii in two waves of attack. At 7:48 a.m. 353 Imperial Japanese Air force torpedo planes, bombers, and fighters damage the Allied airplanes, battleships, destroyers, and base facilities. This attack, along with other building issues pushed the United States to enter World War II.
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On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. 80,000 people died. Three days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. 70,000 died. So in four days 150,000 Japanese died. Japan surrendered September 2, 1945.
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The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. Lewis during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. It was the plane to drop the two bombs on Japan.
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