Reference Lists/Interwar Era
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Interwar Years Era Reference List
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- Air Corps Tactical School
- Battle of Khalkhin-Gol
- Battle of Lake Khasan
- Borisoglebsk Military Pilots School
- Chaco War
- Chinese Civil War
- Command Structure of the Soviet Air Forces
- Command Structure of the Soviet Air Forces, 1918-1941
- Deruluft
- Development of Soviet Air Defense Forces
- Development of U.S. Bombers in the Interwar Years
- Dobrolet
- Early Soviet Military Aviators
- First All-Russia Aviation Congress
- First Soldiers Aviation Congress
- German Aircraft Production to 1941
- Growth of the Soviet Air Force
- Hindenburg
- Imperial Airship Scheme
- Italian Invasion of Albania
- Kachinsk Military Aviation School
- Lipetsk Airfield
- NKO Order No. 2398 on Army Personnel (November 21, 1935)
- NKO Order No. 2488 on Army Personnel (November 28, 1935)
- NKO Order No. 2601 on Army Personnel (December 13, 1935)
- Order of the NKO on Training of Flight Cadre in the Red Army Air Forces in 1940
- Order of the SNK on Awarding Military Ranks to Senior Command Personnel of the Red Army
- Orders of the Soviet NKO
- Orenburg Military Pilots School
- Organizational Structure of the Soviet Air Forces
- Organizational Structure of the Soviet Air Forces, May 16, 1918
- Polish-Soviet War
- Polish-Ukrainian War
- Reference:Air Wars 1919-1939
- Reference:Arawasi International
- Reference:Royal Air Force Historical Society Journal
- Rif War of 1920
- Second Nicaraguan Campaign
- Second Sino-Japanese War
- Soviet Air Force Commanders
- Soviet Air Force Manpower
- Soviet Air Force Personnel
- Soviet Aircraft Production and Inventories to 1941
- Soviet Development of Radar to 1945
- Soviet Military Districts
- Soviet Pilot Memoirs
- Soviet Pilots in Foreign Wars
- Soviet Pilots in the Spanish Civil War
- Soviet Volunteer Pilots in China
[edit] People
| Adriashenko, Viktor | ||
| Akashev, Konstantin | World War I aviator, Bolshevik revolutionary, and the first commander of the Soviet air forces. | |
| Akhmatovich, E. | Soviet revolutionary and early participant in the founding of the Soviet air forces | |
| Alekseev, Pavel | Soviet aviator and general officer who became a victim of Stalin's Military Purges just before the outbreak of World War II | |
| Alksnis, Yakov | Alksnis was the head of Soviet Military Aviation for 11 years during its early, formative period (1926-1937), but then was arrested and executed during the Great Purge. | |
| Andrews, Frank | One of the key figures in the development of American airpower, who served as the first commander of the General Headquarters Air Force and was an advocate of strategic bombing | |
| Andrianov, Nikolai | ||
| Arnold, Henry | An early US military aviation pioneer who went on to become the first Chief of the US Army Air Corps, and the commander of US Army Air Forces during World War II. | |
| Arvatov, Georgii | Early Soviet aviator, participant in the Russian Civil War, and three-time Order of the Red Banner recipient | |
| Arzhenukhin, Fyodor | ||
| Astakhov, Fyodor | Soviet military aviator and senior air commander during World War II | |
| Auzan, Adolf | Soviet aviator during the Russian Civil War, Order of the Red Banner recipient and air force engineer | |
| Bane, Thurman | Early U.S. military aviator, played a key role in laying the foundations for U.S. Air Force research and development | |
| Baranov, Pyotr | Participant in the Russian Revolution and a political officer during the Russian Civil War, who later commanded the Soviet air forces from 1924 to 1931 | |
| Bartini, Robert | Soviet aircraft designer from the mid-1920s through World War II | |
| Blagoveshchenskii, Aleksei | ||
| Browning, Miles | U.S. Naval aviator and pioneer in the development of aircraft carrier combat tactics | |
| Chernikh, Sergei | Soviet fighter pilot, participant in the Spanish Civil War, and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Chkalov, Valery | Famous Soviet test-pilot and long-distance arctic flier, who made the first non-stop flight from Moscow, across the North Pole, to the United States in 1937. | |
| Cot, Pierre | French Air Minister from 1933-34 and 1936-1938 | |
| Denain, Victor | First Chief of Staff of the French Air Force (1932) and later French Air Minister (1934-1936) | |
| Denisov, Sergei | Soviet military aviator, participant in the Spanish Civil War, and one of the earliest two-time Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Dobrolezh, Aleksandr | Soviet military aviator | |
| Douhet, Giulio | ||
| Eaker, Ira | One of the key figures in the development of American airpower and one of the main architects of the American strategic bombing campaign in Europe during World War II | |
| Filin, Aleksandr | Soviet test pilot in the 1930s, and commander of the Soviet Air Force Scientific Testing Institute (NII) | |
| Franko, Pyotr | ||
| Frunze, Mikhail | One of the Soviet Union's foremost military thinkers, and an early advocate for the development of Soviet airpower | |
| George, Harold | World War I aviator, head of the Air War Plans Division at the start of World War II, and later commander of the Air Transport Command | |
| Grigorovich, Dmitry | Soviet aircraft designer | |
| Gritsevets, Sergei | Soviet fighter ace who participated in the Spanish Civil War, and was one of the first people to become a two-time Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Gromadin, Mikhail | One of the early Soviet Air Defense (PVO) commanders and the first to command the National Air Defense Forces (PVO Strany) | |
| Gromov, Mikhail | Soviet military aviator and test pilot, senior air commander during World War II, and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Gusev, Aleksandr | Soviet fighter pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union who served in the Spanish Civil War, the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol, and World War II | |
| Gusev, Konstantin | Soviet military aviator and senior commander prior to World War II | |
| Gvaita, Evgeniy | Early Soviet aviator who participated in the Russian Civil War | |
| Ingaunis, Felix | An experienced and well respected Soviet aviator who fought during the Russian Civil War and rose to the rank of Corps Commander in charge of the Kiev Military District Air Forces, before becoming a victim of Stalin's Military Purges in 1937. | |
| Jordanoff, Assen | Bulgarian-American aviation pioneer, aviator, and engineer responsible for designing the first Bulgarian-built airplane during World War I | |
| Kagan, Mikhail | ||
| Kamanin, Nikolai | Soviet air officer, Hero of the Soviet Union, and participant in the Soviet space program | |
| Kesselring, Albert | Luftwaffe Chief of Staff (1936-37) | |
| Khripin, Vasily | ||
| Klisheiko, Franz | ||
| Kokhanskii, Vladislav | ||
| Kokkinaki, Vladimir | Soviet test pilot for the Air Force Scientific Test Institute and later the Ilyushin Design Bureau, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Konkin, Yakov | Early Soviet aviator, commanded air forces for the 8th Army on the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War | |
| Konokotin, Viktor | Early Soviet aviator and observer who served in airships during the Russian Civil War | |
| Kopets, Ivan | Soviet volunteer pilot in the Spanish Civil War and commander of the Western Special Military District--which was hit hardest by the German attack--at the start of World War II | |
| Korotaev, Pyotr | ||
| Kozhevnikov, Aleksandr | ||
| Kravchenko, Grigorii | Soviet fighter ace and one of the first to become a two-time Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Kutsevalov, Timofey | Soviet fighter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, and senior air commander during World War II | |
| Lapchinskii, Aleksandr | One of the leading airpower theorists in the Soviet Union leading up to WWII | |
| Lapin, Albert | ||
| Lavinovskii, Boris | ||
| Lavrov, Vasily | ||
| Lazarevich, Vladimir | ||
| Liddell Hart, Basil | Renowned British military historian and theorist, and an early proponent of airpower | |
| von der Lieth-Thomsen, Hermann | German aviation pioneer and Luftstreitkräfte Chief of Staff during World War I | |
| Loktionov, Alexander | Commander of the Soviet air forces from 1937 to 1939 | |
| Lopatin, Vsevolod | ||
| Lyapidevskii, Anatolii | Soviet naval aviator, participant in the rescue of the stranded crew of the Chelyuskin, and first ever Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Maltsev, Victor | Early Soviet aviator who later ran afoul of the Communist Party and ended up collaborating with the Germans during World War II, ultimately as commander of air forces for the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR) | |
| Mecozzi, Amadeo | Italian World War I ace fighter pilot and airpower theorist who advocated the use of airpower in close cooperation with ground forces, in contrast to the theories of fellow Italian Giulio Douhet | |
| Mednis, Artur | Mednis was the first in the USSR to write a study specifically on ground attack aviation. | |
| Mezheninov, Sergei | Russian General Staff officer and commander in the Soviet army and air forces | |
| Mezheraup, Pyotr | An early Soviet aviator, Russian Civil War participant, and three-time recipient of the Order of the Red Banner | |
| Mironov, Aleksei | Early Soviet aviator and air commander who served in the Black Sea Fleet during World War II | |
| Mitchell, William | ||
| Moiseev, Yakov | Soviet pilot, participant in the Russian Civil War, test pilot, and three-time Order of the Red Banner recipient | |
| Monastiryov, Sokrat | An early Soviet aviator and three-time recipient of the Order of the Red Banner | |
| Mozhaev, A. | Early Soviet aviator and air commander | |
| Naumov, A. | Soviet aviator, Deputy Commander of the air forces in the early 1930s | |
| Olds, Robert | US Army Air Corps pilot, airpower theorist, Air Corps Tactical School instructor, and proponent of strategic bombing | |
| Pavlov, Ivan | Russian fighter pilot during World War I who sided with the Reds during the Russian Civil War and subsequently served in the Soviet air forces | |
| Petrozhitskii, Ivan | World War I fighter pilot, early Soviet aviator and later air commander during the 1930's, arrested by Stalin in 1938 but freed in 1948 | |
| Polikarpov, Nikolai | Soviet aircraft designer most famous for designing fighters prior to World War II, including the I-153, I-15, and I-16 | |
| Polynin, Fyodr | Soviet bomber pilot, participant in the Second Sino-Japanese War, air commander, and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Proskurov, Ivan | Proskurov participated as a Soviet volunteer bomber pilot in the Spanish Civil War, for which he was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union; in the course of just a few years he rose from the rank of Sr. Lt. to General in charge of Military Intelligence (later known as the GRU), only to be purged by Stalin five days after the Nazis invaded and the Soviets were drawn into World War II. | |
| Pumpur, Pyotr | Soviet fighter ace and fighter group commander during the Spanish Civil War, and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Pushkin, Anatoly | Soviet bomber pilot who served as a volunteer pilot in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and later participated in the Soviet-Finnish War and World War II, earning the title Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Remezyuk, Vasily | ||
| von Rohden, Hans-Detlef | Luftwaffe general staff officer, airpower theorist, and supporter of the use of strategic bombing | |
| Rozengolts, Arkadii | Soviet Communist Party functionary who served as commander of Soviet Air Forces in 1923-24 | |
| Rychagov, Pavel | ||
| Pyzhenkov, Mikhail | ||
| Sakrier, Ivan | Soviet engineer, head of the Air Force Armaments Directorate in 1941 | |
| Salmond, John | British military aviator during World War I, senior RAF commander, and RAF Chief of Staff during the early 1930s | |
| Samoilo, Aleksandr | ||
| Samoilov, Ivan | ||
| Sapozhnikov, Grigorii | ||
| von Seeckt, Hans | German general staff officer who was responsible for rebuilding the Reichswehr after World War I; von Seeckt was not an air officer, but had a keen appreciation for the importance of airpower and contributed significantly to the rebuilding of the Luftwaffe. | |
| Serov, Anatolii | Soviet fighter ace in the Spanish Civil War, test pilot, and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Shakht, Ernst | Swedish-born Soviet bomber pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union who participated in the Spanish Civil War but ultimately became a victim of Stalin's purges | |
| Sharapov, Ivan | ||
| Shelukhin, Pyotr | ||
| Sherman, William | ||
| Shevchenko, Vladimir | Soviet pilot who participated in the Spanish Civil War, the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol, the Soviet-Finnish War, and World War II in bomber and ground attack units and received the Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Shirinkin, Aleksei | Russian fighter ace during World War I, sided with the Soviets and flew in the Soviet air forces and as a test pilot | |
| Slepnyov, Mavrikii | Soviet civilian and later military aviator, who was one of the first to receive the Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Slessor, John | One of the RAF's most brilliant thinkers, and a key advocate of promoting nuclear weapons as an instrument of deterrence during the Cold War | |
| Slyusarev, Sidor | Soviet bomber pilot, air commander, and Hero of the Soviet Union who fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Soviet-Finnish War, and World War II | |
| Smushkevich, Yakov | Soviet Air Force commander and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union who participated in the Spanish Civil War and the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol, and ultimately fell victim to Stalin's Military Purges | |
| Spaight, James | British civil servant, airpower and strategic bombing advocate, and prolific author during the interwar years and into World War II | |
| Sperrle, Hugo | German observer pilot during World War I, commander of the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War, and a senior Luftwaffe commander during World War II | |
| Stepanov, Evgenii | Soviet fighter ace and Hero of the Soviet Union, who flew an I-15 in the Spanish Civil War and Battle of Khalkhin-Gol | |
| Stroev, Mikhail | Soviet aviator, air commander, and an early participant in the founding of the Soviet air forces | |
| Sudets, Vladimir | Soviet aviator, senior air commander during World War II, and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Thomson, Christopher | British Secretary of State for Air and one of the principal proponents of the Imperial Airship Scheme | |
| Tkachyov, Ivan | ||
| Tkhor, Grigorii | Soviet aviator, participant in the Spanish Civil War and deputy commander of an air division during World War II | |
| Tomashevskii, Apollinarii | Soviet aviator who participated in World War I and the Russian Civil War and later became one of the earliest Soviet test pilots | |
| Trenchard, Hugh | ||
| Trotsky, Leon | Leading Soviet revolutionary, key figure in the formation and early development of the Soviet armed forces, and an early advocate for the development of Soviet airpower | |
| Turzhanskii, Alexander | Soviet aviator and specialist in the development of ground attack aviation tactics | |
| Turzhanskii, Boris | Soviet fighter pilot, participant in the Spanish Civil War, and the first to receive the title Hero of the Soviet Union for action in combat | |
| Udet, Ernst | The second highest scoring German ace during World War I, with 62 victories | |
| Ukhin, Evgenii | Soviet pilot-observer, participant in the Russian Civil War, and three-time Order of the Red Banner recipient | |
| Vasilchenko, Nikolai | ||
| von Richthofen, Wolfram | Brother of the "Red Baron" Manfred von Richtofen and World War I ace in his own right, who became one of the finest tactical air commanders of World War II | |
| Vorotnikov, Alexander | World War I Russian aviator who joined the Reds after the Russian Revolution and became one of the earliest commanders of the Red air forces | |
| Vuillemin, Joseph | World War I French ace and commander of the French air forces from 1938 to 1940 | |
| Walker, Kenneth | American military aviator, proponent of strategic bombing, and Medal of Honor recipient during World War II | |
| Wever, Walther | The Luftwaffe's first Chief of Staff, 1933-1936 | |
| Wilberg, Helmuth | German World War I aviator (with German pilot's license #26) and later a senior commander in the Luftwaffe | |
| Wilson, Donald | American aviator who played a role in the development of US airpower doctrine as an instructor at the Air Corps Tactical School in the 1930s | |
| Yatsenko, Vladimir | Soviet aircraft designer responsible for designing aircraft including the DI-6 and the I-287 | |
| Zalevskii, Adam | ||
| Zimin, Georgii | World War II Soviet fighter ace and air commander | |
| Znamenskii, Andrei | Soviet Communist Party functionary who served as commander of the Red Army Air Forces in 1922-23 |
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| 2I-N1 | The first biplane fighter design created by Soviet aircraft designer Nikolai Polikarpov | |
| ANT-25 | An experimental Soviet long-range aircraft that made a record-breaking, 63 hour non-stop flight from Moscow to Pearson Field, Washington in June, 1937. | |
| Ar 64 | Single seat biplane fighter that was one of the first models built in quantity after the Germans abandoned the Treaty of Versailles | |
| Ar 65 | One of Germany's earliest biplane fighter models built after it abandoned the Treaty of Versailles | |
| B-6 | American biplane bomber that served as a front-line bomber from 1930-1934, and was the last biplane bomber design built by the US military | |
| Breguet 14 | French biplane bomber and reconnaissance aircraft | |
| CR.32 | Italian biplane fighter used in the Spanish Civil War and early in World War II | |
| DB-1 | American single-engine monoplane bomber prototype produced in the early 1920s | |
| Do 11 | German twin-engined transport/bomber built in the early 1930s | |
| Do 13 | Derivative of the Do 11, produced in small numbers during the early 1930s | |
| Do 18 | German seaplane developed in the mid-1930s | |
| Do 19 | Prototype for a German four-engine heavy bomber | |
| Do J | Twin-engined German flying boat | |
| Do Y | German three-engine transport developed as a bomber prototype in the early 1930s | |
| F.60 Goliath | World War I era heavy bomber that was produced too late to see action in the war and was subsequently converted for use as a civil airliner | |
| FG-62 | Soviet version of the F.60 Goliath, which was purchased in small numbers from France and served in the mid-1920s as the USSR's first "heavy bomber" after the retirement of the Ilya Muromets | |
| HD 37 | A late-1920s German biplane fighter design, produced only under license by the Soviet Union in limited quantities as the I-7 | |
| HD 38 | German biplane fighter developed in the late 1920s | |
| He 100 | Pre-World War II German high-performance fighter design that never entered series production | |
| He 42 | German biplane seaplane used as a trainer for naval pilots from the 1930s through the end of World War II | |
| He 45 | German biplane light bomber, produced in the early 1930s | |
| He 46 | German reconnaissance and light bomber introduced in the mid-1930s | |
| He 50 | German dive-bomber and later light night bomber used from the mid-1930s through almost the end of World War II | |
| He 51 | Single-engine biplane fighter that was one of the first types developed under Hitler's secret rearmament program and participated in the Spanish Civil War. | |
| He 51W | Naval version of the He 51 fighter, with floats in place of fixed landing gear | |
| He 59 | German torpedo-bomber and reconnaissance float plane created in the early 1930s | |
| He 60 | German biplane reconnaissance seaplane produced in the mid-1930s | |
| He 70 | German high-speed reconnaissance and light-bomber aircraft developed in the early 1930s | |
| Hinaidi | Twin-engined biplane bomber that served with the RAF from the mid-twenties to the mid-thirties | |
| I-1 | The earliest indigenously designed Soviet fighter to enter series production, albeit with a relatively unsuccessful and short career | |
| I-15 | ||
| I-153 | Soviet biplane fighter that was largely obsolete by the start of World War II | |
| I-16 | ||
| I-207 | One of the last biplane fighter designs created in the USSR, tested between 1937-39 but ultimately never matched the performance of the I-153 and did not enter production. | |
| I-3 | An early fighter design by Nikolai Polikarpov | |
| I-7 | Early 1930's era Soviet single seat biplane fighter, license-built based on the German Heinkel HD 37 | |
| I-Z | Heavily armed but poor performing Soviet fighter plane produced in small numbers during the mid-1930s | |
| IL-400 | Prototype monoplane fighter powered by the Liberty engine that was one of the earliest indigenous Soviet fighter designs, by Nikolai Polikarpov | |
| IL-400b | Refined version of the IL-400 prototype monoplane fighter created by Nikolai Polikarpov | |
| Ju 52 | German transport aircraft that was used extensively by the Luftwaffe, including some use as a medium bomber | |
| Ju 86 | German bomber developed in the mid-1930s that saw limited action in the Spanish Civil War and the German invasion of Poland | |
| KOMTA | An experimental heavy, twin-engined triplane that was one of the earliest types designed entirely in the post-revolution Soviet Union | |
| MB-2 | American biplane bomber that served as the U.S. Air Service's primary multi-engine bomber during the early and mid-1920s | |
| MBR-2 | Soviet reconnaissance flying-boat that served with the Soviet Navy before and during World War II | |
| O2U Corsair | Biplane reconnaissance/light bomber operated by the US Navy starting in the late 1920s and by several export customers | |
| P-1 Hawk | American open cockpit biplane fighter operated by the US Army Air Corps during the 1920s | |
| P-12 | Biplane fighter design that served with the US Army Air Corps and US Navy during the early 1930s until it was superseded by the P-26 | |
| P-16 | Two-seat biplane fighter used by the US Army Air Corps in the early 1930s | |
| Po-2 | Heavily produced Soviet biplane trainer and general utility aircraft that served throughout the 1930s and World War II | |
| R-1 | The first mass-produced Soviet aircraft, an early effort by Soviet aircraft designer Nikolai Polikarpov that was derived from the De Haviland DH. 9A | |
| R-3 | A streamlined, low-wing monoplane design with retractable landing gear that was developed as an air-racer and was an early example of the formula that would be successfully used in the mid-1930s for the Me 109, Spitfire, and the I-16 | |
| R-5 | Soviet biplane reconnaissance/light-bomber aircraft used widely in the USSR during the 1930s | |
| SSS | Ground attack variant of the Soviet R-5 biplane | |
| TB-1 | An early twin-engined Soviet "heavy" bomber design | |
| Tabor | An experimental British triplane quad-engine heavy bomber design produced just after World War I | |
| Vickers Victoria | British biplane transport aircraft, used from the early 1920s to the mid 1930s | |
| XNBL-1 | An experimental triplane six-engine heavy bomber built for the US Army Air Service in the early 1920s | |
| YuG-1 | Soviet version of the Junkers K 30 bomber, purchased in small numbers from Junkers in the mid-1920s and regarded as the first effective "modern" long-range bomber in the Soviet inventory | |
| ZRS-Class Dirigible | The US Navy's ZRS-class dirigibles were flying aircraft carriers that could carry, launch, and retrieve up to five fighters each. |
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