• Thumbnail for Balkan Air Force
    The Balkan Air Force (BAF) was an Allied air formation operating in the Balkans during World War II. Composed of units of the Royal Air Force and South...
    14 KB (1,103 words) - 16:56, 9 October 2024
  • Air Force (RAF), including the Balkan Air Force, and Soviet Air Forces against the German Luftwaffe, the Italian Regia Aeronautica and the Air Force of...
    14 KB (1,906 words) - 17:01, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yugoslav Air Force
    partisan army included air units trained and equipped by Britain (with Supermarine Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes, see Balkan Air Force) and the Soviet Union...
    40 KB (3,923 words) - 21:19, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Desert Air Force
    The Desert Air Force (DAF), also known chronologically as Air Headquarters Western Desert, Air Headquarters Libya, the Western Desert Air Force, and the...
    30 KB (3,269 words) - 22:09, 20 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Royal Yugoslav Air Force
    Air Force in the Northern Africa initially and then with the Balkan Air Force in Italy and Yugoslavia, with some even going on to join the Soviet Air...
    35 KB (4,228 words) - 04:25, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Croatian Air Force
    Independent State of Croatia Croatian Air Force Legion Yugoslav Partisan Air Force Balkan Air Force Yugoslav Air Force "Odluka o izmjeni i dopuni Odluke o danima...
    66 KB (5,841 words) - 18:01, 21 November 2024
  • by the Partizanska Eskadrila NOVJ and RAF squadrons 351 and 352 (the RAF Balkan Air Force, 1942–1945) Cocardes du monde entier – Roundels of the World...
    158 KB (1,826 words) - 03:03, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Serbian Air Force and Air Defence
    This date is regarded as the official founding of the Serbian Air Force. The First Balkan War broke out in October 1912; Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece,...
    47 KB (3,899 words) - 06:43, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sixteenth Air Force
    The Sixteenth Air Force (Air Forces Cyber) (16 AF) is a United States Air Force (USAF) organization responsible for information warfare, which encompasses...
    25 KB (2,328 words) - 15:20, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Allied bombing of Yugoslavia in World War II
    States Army Air Force (USAAF) and Royal Air Force (RAF), including the Balkan Air Force (BAF), between 1941 and 1945, during which period the entire country...
    16 KB (1,776 words) - 21:46, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for German Air Force
    The German Air Force (German: Luftwaffe, lit. 'air weapon' or 'air arm', German pronunciation: [ˈlʊftvafə] ) is the aerial warfare branch of the Bundeswehr...
    98 KB (7,736 words) - 17:43, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hellenic Air Force
    Hellenic Air Force (HAF; Greek: Πολεμική Αεροπορία, romanized: Polemikí Aeroporía, lit. 'Military Aviation', sometimes abbreviated as ΠΑ) is the air force of...
    101 KB (9,508 words) - 03:54, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for South African Air Force
    African Air Force (SAAF) is the air warfare branch of South African National Defence Force, with its headquarters in Pretoria. The South African Air Force was...
    123 KB (10,673 words) - 17:03, 28 October 2024
  • Adriatic, the heavy bombers of the U.S. 15th Air Force and the light and medium bombers of the Balkan Air Force. The attacks paralysed movement of the German...
    10 KB (1,315 words) - 20:44, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Italian Air Force
    Italian Air Force (Italian: Aeronautica Militare; AM, lit. 'military aeronautics') is the air force of the Italian Republic. The Italian Air Force was founded...
    19 KB (1,498 words) - 19:32, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air Force Special Operations Command
    operations component of the United States Air Force. An Air Force major command (MAJCOM), AFSOC is also the U.S. Air Force component command to United States Special...
    60 KB (4,359 words) - 01:00, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Operation Rösselsprung (1944)
    ground forces were also subjected to Allied air attacks by Air Vice-Marshal William Elliot's Balkan Air Force throughout the day, called in by the British...
    69 KB (8,521 words) - 06:29, 21 October 2024
  • list of Royal Air Force commands, both past and present. Although the concept of a command dates back to the foundation of the Royal Air Force, the term command...
    15 KB (408 words) - 20:49, 16 November 2024
  • in its inventory, becoming the largest air force in the Balkans and the Middle East. The growing inventory of air brigades required another structural change...
    84 KB (6,841 words) - 10:29, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fifteenth Air Force
    Fifteenth Air Force (15 AF) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force's Air Combat Command (ACC). It is headquartered at Shaw Air Force Base....
    44 KB (4,704 words) - 09:52, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Romanian Air Force
    The Romanian Air Force (RoAF) (Romanian: Forțele Aeriene Române) is the air force branch of the Romanian Armed Forces. It has an air force headquarters...
    82 KB (6,930 words) - 13:06, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Elliot (RAF officer)
    William Elliot (RAF officer) (category Royal Air Force air marshals of World War II)
    continued has war service as Air Officer Commanding RAF Gibraltar and then as Air Officer Commanding the RAF's Balkan Air Force during 1944 until he was made...
    7 KB (474 words) - 16:28, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yugoslav Partisans
    recognition as the legitimate national liberation force by the Allies, who subsequently set up the RAF Balkan Air Force (under the influence and suggestion of Brigadier-General...
    118 KB (12,790 words) - 02:01, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air warfare of World War II
    tactical superiority into complete air supremacy—to totally defeat the enemy air force and obtain control of its air space. This could be done directly...
    154 KB (21,061 words) - 05:31, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Balkans
    The Balkans (/ˈbɔːlkənz/ BAWL-kənz, /ˈbɒlkənz/ BOL-kənz), corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula (Peninsula of Haemus, Haemaic Peninsula),...
    118 KB (10,551 words) - 04:59, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Adriatic campaign of World War II
    Adriatic campaign of World War II (category Balkans campaign (World War II))
    airstrip about 750 yd (690 m) long, from which four Spitfires of the Balkan Air Force were operating. At the west end of the island was the Port of Komiža...
    34 KB (4,116 words) - 22:06, 15 May 2024
  • No. 1435 Flight RAF (category Royal Air Force independent flights)
    1943, and operated over Sicily and in Italy. It was assigned to the Balkan Air Force, carrying out operations over Albania and Yugoslavia until the end...
    14 KB (1,347 words) - 16:04, 5 October 2024
  • Lieut. R.T. Joyner, Lieut. N.K. McCallum, and Lieut. A.C. Villiers) to Balkan Air Force on 9 December 1944, flying Spitfire V's on loan from No. 318 (Polish)...
    17 KB (2,658 words) - 23:12, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport
    Co-Belligerent Air Force (Aviazione Cobelligerante Italiana, or ACI), or Air Force of the South (Aeronautica del Sud), and the Balkan Air Force. After the...
    21 KB (1,113 words) - 00:04, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bulgarian Air Force
    The Bulgarian Air Force (Bulgarian: Военновъздушни сили, romanized: Voennovazdushni sili) is one of the three branches of the Military of Bulgaria, the...
    80 KB (7,975 words) - 15:42, 14 November 2024