What were the German Air Forces' (Luftwaffe) aircraft divisions.?
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Airborne Divisions\nIn order to keep its existence secret, the first German airborne division was named as if a Flieger ("flier") division in the series of Luftwaffe divisions that controlled air assets rather than ground troops:\n\n7th Flieger Division (often translated 7th Air Division) \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nThe division was later reorganized to start a series of nominally airborne divisions. Though named Fallschirmjäger ("paratrooper") divisions, most were not actually trained for airdrops, and in practice all operated as ordinary motorized infantry throughout their existence. The lower-numbered ones maintaned an élite status, but quality generally declined among the higher-numbered ones.
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Sturmabteilung \n \nThe seal of SAThe  Sturmabteilung? (SA, German for "Storm Division", usually translated as stormtroops or stormtroopers) functioned as a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP – the German Nazi party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s.\n\nSA men were often known as brownshirts from the color of their uniform and to distinguish them from the SS who were known as blackshirts. Brown coloured shirts were chosen as the SA uniform because a large batch of them were cheaply available after World War I, having originally been ordered for German troops in Africa.\n\nThe SA was also the first Nazi paramilitary group to develop pseudo-military titles for bestowal upon its members. The SA ranks would be adopted by several other Nazi Party groups, chief among them the SS.\n\n\nHistory\n \nHitler addressing SA members in the late 1920sThe term Sturmabteilung originally came from the specialized assault troops used by Germany in 1918 in World War I utilising Hutier tactics. Instead of a large mass assault, the Sturmabteilung were organized into small teams of a few soldiers each. First applied during the Battle of Cambrai, the wider use in March 1918 allowed the Germans to push back British and French lines tens of kilometers.\n\nIn Munich in the fall of 1920, Hitler himself created the Ordnertruppen; a body of muscular Nazis, ex-soldiers, and beer hall brawlers in order to protect his speeches and Nazi Party gatherings from Communist disruptions. It originally functioned as a group of bodyguards to enforce order at Nazi gatherings. It was shortly changed to Sportabteilung, a cover name meaning "Sports section," and came to be known by the initials SA. In late 1921, the name was changed to the final version: Sturmabteilung. Under their popular leader Ernst Röhm, the SA grew in importance within the Nazi power structure, eventually claiming thousands of members. In 1922, the NSDAP created a youth section, the Jugendbund, for young men between the ages of 14 and 18 years. Its successor, the Hitler Youth, remained under SA command until May 1932. The SA carried out numerous acts of violence against socialist groups throughout the 1920s, typically in minor street-fights called Zusammenstöße ('collisions'). The SS eventually took over their original role.\n\n \nA rare, complete set of Nazi S.A. tin soldiers, from the 1940s.After Hitler took power in 1933, the SA became increasingly anxious for power and saw themselves as the replacement for the German army. This angered the regular army (Reichswehr) who already resented the Nazi party, and commonly regarded the SA as 'brown scum'. It also led to tension with other leaders within the party who saw Röhm's increasingly powerful SA as a threat to their own personal ambitions. The SA was also considered a dangerous and radical organization, especially since common SA practice was to swear loyalty to local SA commanders rather than Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party as a whole.\n\nSenior Nazis including Himmler faked a dossier which suggested that Röhm had received payment from the French to carry out a coup against Hitler. At first Hitler refused to believe it, but he was painfully aware that the SA had the power to remove him if it so wished. Röhm was unpopular in the party because others saw his ambition as threatening their own, and because he was a homosexual. Eventually the pressure mounted and Hitler ordered the execution of the leadership of the SA, which took place on June 30-July 1, 1934, on what is known as the Night of the Long Knives. Victor Lutze became the new leader of the SA, and the organization was soon marginalized in the Nazi power structure.\n\nThe SA had its own units during the war, known as Feldherrnhalle. These formations expanded from regimental size in 1940 to a fully-fledged armored corps Panzerkorps Feldherrnhalle in 1945.\n\n\nLeaders of the SA\nThe leader of the SA was kno
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"As well as the current MI5 and MI6, there have been a number of British military intelligence groups designated as MI-(section number) existing at various times since the First World War, which have now been abandoned or subsumed by MI5, MI6 or GCHQ. These included MI1 (Directorate of Military Intelligence), MI2 (intelligence in the Soviet Union and Scandinavia), MI3 (Germany and Eastern Europe), MI4 (aerial reconnaissance during the Second World War), MI7 (Military Propaganda during World War I), MI8 (interception and interpretation of communications), MI9 (covert operations and PoW escape), MI10 (weapons and technical analysis), MI11 (Field Security Police), MI12 (German specialists), MI14 (German specialists), MI17 (secretariat for MI departments) and MI18 (Prisoner of War debriefing). MI(R) was responsible for the creation of the secret Home Guard Auxiliary Units. Most British military intelligence is now gathered and analysed by the Defence Intelligence Staff, part of the Ministry of Defence, with support from MI6, GCHQ and allied intelligence organisations."
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A = Attack \nB = Bomber\nFB = Fighter Bomber \nC = Cargo Transport\nE = Electronic Warfare \nF = Fighter \nKC = Tanker\nO = Observation\nP = Maritime Patrol \nQ = Drone\nR = Reconnaissance\nS = Anti-Submarine\nT = Trainer\nU = Utility\nX = Experimental
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The Axis powers were Germany, Italy, Japan and some other less influential allies.\n\nThe Allied powers were Britain, France, USA, China.\n\nJapan successfully bombed Pearl Harbor, so that is an Axis victory.\n\nJapan successfully invaded Guadalcanal and drove the Americans, Philippines, Australians off the island, so that was an Axis victory.\n\nJames Doolittle successfully bombed Japan, but it was a symbolic bombing: there wasn't any military victory achieved, which you could call an Allied victory.\n\nThe Allies successfully invaded Normandy, thus starting the drive to free Europe from the German Army, which was an Allied victory.\n\nBritish General Bernard Montgomery was successful in defeating the Germans in North Africa, so that was an Allied victory.
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Those fighter pilots(with the help of radar)might, just might, have been a turning point in WWII. The Germans could not neutralize Britain before attacking Russia. Did this keep German troops and air-power, needed on the Eastern Front, facing West, in the wrong direction?. Maybe?
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The Air Force used to be part of the Army.
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Battle of the Bulge in Europe.\nBattle of Midway in the Pacific.
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The Air Corps was part of the Army. The name was changed to Army Air Forces in World War 2 as part of the push to have the air forces made an independent service. When that happened, the name was U.S. Air Force to indicate that it was a single, air service seperate from any other service.
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Allied Armed Forces: \n\n \nBritish Army British Expeditionary Army \nRoyal Flying Corps Royal Navy \nAustralian Imperial Force Canadian Corps \nFrench Army French Navy \nFrench Air Service Belgian Army \nRussian Army Serbian Army \nMontenegrin Army Greek Army \nNew Zealand Army Indian Army \nPortuguese Army South African Army \nNewfoundland Army Rhodesian Army \nUnited States Army United States Navy \nUnited States Air Service Italian Army \n \n\nCertral Powers:\n\nGermany\nBulgaria\nAuttro-Hungry\nTurkey
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Wild chicken, I remember it well. It was where we used to do our mortar gunnery trials. Great food, got to meet German soldiers... I didn't appreciate the blizzard during the winter of 75-76 though.
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http://www.af.mil or airforce.com
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Th Air Force, by far.  Navy, ARmy, Marine Corps- in that order.\nEDWARD< you are incorrect.I actually won a bet on this very question with a squid I used to work with.  We actually added  up every fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft by squadron/unit within each branch- the air force won by over 1000.\n\n\nA RANGER BOY- you are wrong as hell-  The air force still has more aircraft including helicopters- and the Army does not have a SINGLE C-130- they are all air force rides for the Army Dogs.  Hmmm, seems like you would know that if you were a (snicker) a Ranger!  HOOAH!  LACK OF INFORMATION LEADS THE WAY
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The Battle of Britain is the name for the general air war over Britain.  It is also reffered to as the "Blitz".  It started as an attack against the RAF, but switched to a campaign of bombing London in September 1940.\n\nBlitzkrieg refers to the "lightning war" (literal translation) where German armies quickly stormed other countries, defeating them in weeks.  This is opposed to trench warfare, where years are spent moving the frontline only short distances.\n\nUsing air superiority was a tactic of blitzkrieg, to soften enemy defenses before attack.\n\nThe allies also bombed Germany heavily, I believe causing more civilian deaths than British civilian deaths.
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Germany, kind of Poland -germany started the war when it invaded Poland-, Britain, France, Austria, America, Japan, and Russia.
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You will want to double -check these, but here goes. From bottom to top\nRAF: Pilot Officer, Flight Officer, Flight Lieutenant, Wing Commander, Group Captain, Air Commodore, Air Vice Marshal, Air Marshal, Air Chief Marshal\nUSAF: 2d lieutenant, 1st lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, brigadier general, major general, lieutenant general, general (The USAF didn't become a separate service from the army until after WW II, and retained the Army nomenclature. Naval aviators are naval officers, and naval ranks are different.)
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"Swords to plowshares"\n\nAfter the war Germany was under US-martial law. The Allies dissolved the German Army on August 20, 1946.\nAll military were disbanded an (almost) all equipment was molten and made into materials to rebuild Germany and surrounding countries.\n\nRailroads and bridges needed to be rebuilt. Then there was the Marshal-plan.\n\nAlso many tanks were used by their captors. France used some German Panther tanks as late as the late 50's.