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    The “Night Witches” were all-female air force units from the Soviet Union that dropped bombs over nazis during World War II. They were the creation of Maria Raskova, the first female navigator in the Soviet Air Force. Women from all over the Soviet Union were allowed to apply. Most of the hundreds of women who were chosen were young students (between the ages of 17 and 26), all of whom were further educated at Engels School of Aviation. The squadron was created because Raskova was receiving many

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    The Battle of Britain was the first battle in World War 2 where the Germans had suffered a big loss. It was an aerial battle between the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). It was the first battle fought entirely by the air force and would last from the 10th of July to the 31st of October 1940. The Battle of Britain was an extremely influential battle that occurred and would influence the outcome of World War 2 as the Luftwaffe had received a lethal blow, and would never fully

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    Harry Parr Soon after the German Luftwaffe began blitzing London, Harry Parr moved his family to Yatton in Somerset. He obtained work as a designer with The Bristol Aeroplane Co., at their factory in Filton, Malcolm Parr was at the time a serving soldier, and Parr used to meet him off the train at Yatton station when he came home on leave. My father was part of the team designing ejector seats for fighter planes. He made a full size model of the ejector seat in clay. He said that he had sat on it

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    In the spring of 2011 a series of protests in the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Damascus escalated into armed confrontations between protesters and Syrian Security Forces. By June 12th of the following year, the UN had declared Syria in a state of civil war. Since the announcement, over 191,000 men, woman, and children have been killed in the fighting. Syria has also seen a wave of violent crime and kidnapping since the start of the fighting. As the alarming death toll continues to rise, the world

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    As it approaches its second decade of employment, the Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules has secured its place as an integral part of aviation units around the globe. With a diverse range of variants, each serving a specialized role, the C-130J Super Hercules’s presence in the United States Marine Corps flies in the form of the KC-130J Super Hercules tanker modification. The specifications of the KC-130J tanker and its participation in the missions of the United States Marine Corps will be primary

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    the summer and fall of 1940, the first major air battle of history took place after the Fall of France in World War 2. The British fought to defend their skies against the force of the Germans. The Battle of Britain also marked the first major defeat of Hitler's military forces during the war, with air superiority seen as the key to victory. England and Germany viewed air power in different ways. Germany viewed air power as support for ground forces and had no strategic bomber development. Meanwhile

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    This film took me on an emotional rollercoaster. From beginning to end the film shook me up and kept me on my toes. I decided not to look up the movie before hand so I wouldn’t expect anything or see things coming. I can honestly say I was invested the entire time. The story was phenomenal and the filming was superb. I thought I was going to dislike this film but its now in my top 20. The film is set in 1939 in a small town in London, during World War Two. They live on the river in a beautiful

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    The first priority was to attain air superiority by destroying the Germany aircraft industry and operational fighters. The second priority was to destroy the German electrical power grid, transportation networks, and oil industry. The third priority was to provide tactical support for the ground invasion of Europe. The Allied success in the European theater depended on achieving air superiority. They wanted their air forces to have the ability to operate anywhere without opposition

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    auxiliary force, but a new form of warfare: There is absolutely no limit to the scale of its future independent war use. And the day may not be far off when aerial operations with their devastation of enemy lands and destruction of industries and populous centres on a vast scale may become one of the principal operations of war, to which the older forms of military and naval operations may become secondary and subordinate. It was upon this recommendation in a report written to the Air Ministry and

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    Long-Term Franchise (BOT or LDO) Around the world, long-term franchises for infrastructure facilities are usually referred to as BOT projects, because under this type of contractual agreement the private sector builds, operates, and eventually transfers to government the facility in question. When a lease of the underlying land is involved, this type of arrangement is sometimes called Lease-Develop-Operate (LDO); in this case the “transfer” back to government is implicit approach is widely used

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