Reference Lists/World War II
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World War II Era Reference List
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- Air War Plans Division
- Battle of Kasserine Pass
- Battle of Malta
- Command Structure of the Soviet Air Forces
- Development of Soviet Air Defense Forces
- First Helicopter Rescue by the U.S. Military
- French-Thai War
- Growth of the Soviet Air Force
- Kachinsk Military Aviation School
- Luftwaffe C3I on the Eastern Front
- Operation Aphrodite
- Operation August Storm
- Operation Bagration
- Operation Barbarossa
- Operation Frantic
- Operation Lusty
- Operation Neptune
- Operation Pointblank
- Operation Thursday
- 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
- Orenburg Military Pilots School
- Radio Communications Equipment in the Soviet Air Force to 1945
- Reference:Arawasi International
- Reference:Royal Air Force Historical Society Journal
- Second Sino-Japanese War
- Soviet AOB Operation Barbarossa
- Soviet Air Armies
- Soviet Air Force Adoption of New Aircraft Types in 1941
- Soviet Air Force Commanders
- Soviet Air Force Manpower
- Soviet Air Force Personnel
- Soviet Aircraft Factories
- Soviet Aircraft Losses During Operation Barbarossa
- Soviet Aircraft Losses During World War II
- Soviet Aircraft Production and Inventories 1941-1945
- Soviet Aircraft Production by Aircraft Type and Factory, 1941-1945
- Soviet Development of Radar to 1945
- Soviet Invasion of Poland (1939)
- Soviet Military Districts
- Soviet Pilot Memoirs
- Soviet Pilot Memoirs from World War II
- Thach Weave
- Top World War II Fighter Aces
[edit] People
| Adriashenko, Viktor | ||
| Andreev, Aleksandr | ||
| 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 | |
| Arkhipenko, Fyodr | Soviet World War II fighter ace and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| 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. | |
| Astakhov, Fyodor | Soviet military aviator and senior air commander during World War II | |
| Bakhchivandzhi, Grigorii | Soviet test pilot who led the flight testing of the Soviet's first rocket-powered fighter, the BI-1 | |
| Barkhorn, Gerhard | German fighter ace during World War II, and the second highest scoring ace all time with 301 victories, second only to Erich Hartmann | |
| Bartini, Robert | Soviet aircraft designer from the mid-1920s through World War II | |
| Batz, Wilhelm | One of Germany's top-scoring fighter aces of World War II | |
| Beletskii, Evgeniy | Soviet air army commander during World War II | |
| Bibikov, Vasily | Soviet military aviator, participant in the Spanish Civil War, and commander of an air army during World War II | |
| Blagoveshchenskii, Aleksei | ||
| Bob, Hans-Ekkehard | ||
| Bong, Richard | America's top-scoring fighter ace of World War II, with a total of 40 victories | |
| Brereton, Lewis | American World War I aviator and later a senior air commander during World War II | |
| Browning, Miles | U.S. Naval aviator and pioneer in the development of aircraft carrier combat tactics | |
| Budanova, Ekaterina | One of two female Soviet fighter aces during World War II (along with Lidiya Litvyak), credited with six individual and five shared victories. | |
| Bär, Heinrich | One of Germany's top-scoring fighter aces of World War II | |
| Chennault, Claire | Founder and commander of the American Volunteer Group, the "Flying Tigers", during World War II. | |
| Coningham, Arthur | Senior RAF commander during World War II who made significant contributions to the development of tactical air power | |
| Cot, Pierre | French Air Minister from 1933-34 and 1936-1938 | |
| Denisov, Sergei | Soviet military aviator, participant in the Spanish Civil War, and one of the earliest two-time Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Dessloch, Otto | ||
| Dickfeld, Adolf | German fighter ace during World War II, fought on several fronts and ended the war flying the He 162 | |
| Doolittle, James | ||
| 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 | |
| Ehrler, Heinrich | One of Germany's top-scoring fighter aces of World War II, who flew mostly on the Northern Front unlike most other German aces | |
| Emelyanenko, Vasily | Soviet ground attack pilot during World War II, and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Eryomin, Boris | Soviet World War II fighter ace | |
| Evstigneev, Kirill | The Soviet Union's fifth-highest scoring fighter ace of World War II, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Falaleev, Fyodr | ||
| Felmy, Hellmuth | ||
| Galland, Adolf | World War II German fighter ace and air commander | |
| 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 | |
| Glinka, Dmitrii | One of the Soviet Union's top scoring fighter aces during World War II with a total of 50 victories, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Golodnikov, Nikolai | Soviet fighter ace in World War II who served primarily with the Northern Fleet | |
| Golovanov, Alexander | Commander of Soviet long range aviation during World War II | |
| Golubev, Vasiliy | Soviet fighter ace and Hero of the Soviet Union, who served primarily with the Baltic Fleet during World War II | |
| Gorelov, Sergei | Soviet World War II fighter ace and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Goryunov, Sergei | ||
| Graf, Hermann | One of Germany's top-scoring fighter aces of World War II | |
| 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 | |
| Gulayev, Nikolai | The third-highest scoring Soviet fighter ace of World War II, and two-time 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 | |
| Hannig, Norbert | Luftwaffe fighter ace in WW II, credited with 42 kills | |
| Hansell, Haywood | American air commander during World War II, who commanded strategic bombing units in both Europe and the Pacific | |
| Harris, Arthur | ||
| Hartmann, Erich | German fighter pilot during World War II, and the highest scoring fighter ace in history with 352 victories. | |
| Hill, Roderic | ||
| Holle, Alexander | ||
| Ionov, Aleksei | Commander of the Baltic Special Military District's Air Forces at the start of World War II, but arrested by Stalin just a few days after the conflict began | |
| Kamanin, Nikolai | Soviet air officer, Hero of the Soviet Union, and participant in the Soviet space program | |
| Kamozin, Pavel | World War II Soviet Fighter ace with 35 victories and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Keller, Alfred | One of Germany's senior air commanders during World War II | |
| Kenney, George | American air commander in the Pacific theater during World War II, in charge of the US Fifth Air Force, and later of the entire US Far East Air Forces | |
| Kesselring, Albert | Luftwaffe Chief of Staff (1936-37) | |
| Khryukin, Timofei | Soviet aviator, volunteer pilot in the Spanish Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War, senior air commander during World War II, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Khudyakov, Sergei | Soviet Air Force Chief of Staff during much of World War II | |
| Kittel, Otto | Germany's fourth highest scoring fighter ace of World War II, with a total of 267 victories | |
| 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 | |
| Koldunov, Aleksandr | A top-scoring Soviet fighter ace during World War II, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Kondratyuk, Daniil | ||
| 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 | ||
| Korten, Günther | One of the senior German air commanders during World War II | |
| Kozhedub, Ivan | Soviet fighter pilot, three-time Hero of the Soviet Union, and the highest scoring World War II ace of both the Soviet Union and all Allied nations, credited with 62 victories. | |
| Krasovskii, Stepan | Soviet military aviator, senior air commander during World War II, and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Kravchenko, Grigorii | Soviet fighter ace and one of the first to become a two-time Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Kutakhov, Pavel | Soviet World War II fighter ace and later Commander in Cheif of the Soviet Air Forces, 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 | |
| Liddell Hart, Basil | Renowned British military historian and theorist, and an early proponent of airpower | |
| Litvyak, Lidia | Soviet fighter pilot during World War II and one of only two female fighter aces in the world, credited with 12 victories (11 aircraft plus an observation balloon). | |
| Lyapidevskii, Anatolii | Soviet naval aviator, participant in the rescue of the stranded crew of the Chelyuskin, and first ever Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Löhr, Alexander | Commander of the Austrian Air Force in the mid-1930s, and later a senior commander in the Luftwaffe during World War II | |
| 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) | |
| Michugin, Fyodor | Soviet Air Force General in charge of the Odessa Military District's air forces at the start of World War II | |
| Mironov, Aleksei | Early Soviet aviator and air commander who served in the Black Sea Fleet during World War II | |
| Naumenko, Nikolai | ||
| Novikov, Aleksandr | Commander of the Soviet Air Forces (VVS) for most of World War II | |
| Nowotny, Walter | One of Germany's highest-scoring fighter aces of World War II, with 258 victories | |
| Papivin, Nikolai | Soviet senior air commander during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Pokryshkin, Aleksandr | One of the leading Soviet fighter aces of World War II (59 victories), a tactical innovator, and the first person to become a three-time recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union award. | |
| 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 | |
| Popkov, Vitalii | One of the top-scoring Soviet fighter aces of World War II, and a two-time 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. | |
| Pstygo, Ivan | Soviet bomber pilot during World War II | |
| Ptukhin, Evgenii | Commander of the Kiev Special Military District air forces at the start of World War II, but arrested by Stalin shortly after the beginning of the conflict | |
| 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 | |
| Pyatykhin, Ivan | ||
| Rall, Günther | Germany's third-highest scoring ace of World War II, and the third-highest scoring ace of all time with 275 victories | |
| Rechkalov, Grigorii | A top-scoring Soviet fighter ace from World War II, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| von Rohden, Hans-Detlef | Luftwaffe general staff officer, airpower theorist, and supporter of the use of strategic bombing | |
| Rudenko, Sergei | ||
| Rudorffer, Erich | One of Germany's top-scoring fighter aces during World War II, who fought in all major German theaters of war | |
| Rybalchenko, Stepan | A senior Soviet air commander during World War II | |
| Rychagov, Pavel | ||
| Samoilo, Aleksandr | ||
| Senatorov, Aleksandr | Soviet aviator, Hero of the Soviet Union, and senior air commander during World War II | |
| Serogodskii, Vasily | Soviet fighter pilot in the early part of World War II, and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Serov, Vladimir | Soviet fighter ace during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Shakhurin, Aleksei | Served as the Soviet Minister (People's Commissar) of the Aviation Industry during World War II | |
| Shelukhin, Pyotr | ||
| 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 | |
| Skomorokhov, Nikolai | Soviet World War II fighter ace (46 victories plus 8 partial) and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union. | |
| Skripko, Nikolai | Soviet aviator and air commander, who commanded Soviet Military Transport Aviation (VTA) for 1950-1969 | |
| Slepenkov, Yakov | Soviet naval aviator and fighter ace during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| 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 | |
| Slobozhan, David | Soviet aviator and senior air commander during World War II | |
| 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 | |
| Smirnov, Constantine | Soviet aviator and senior air commander during World War II | |
| Sokolov, Ivan | Soviet aviator and senior air commander during World War II | |
| Spaatz, Carl | Squadron commander during World War I, commander of Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific during World War II, and first Chief of Staff of the US Air Force | |
| 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 | |
| Stepanov, Pavel | Soviet political officers, aviator and senior air commander during World War II | |
| Stepanyan, Nelson | Armenian ground attack pilot in the Soviet Navy during World War II, who fought over Leningrad, the Crimea, and the Baltic and received two Hero of the Soviet Union awards for completing 239 combat sorties, sinking a total of over 80,000 tons of shipping, shooting down two enemy bombers, and destroying another 25 aircraft on the ground. | |
| Stumpff, Hans-Jürgen | One of Germany's senior air commanders during World War II | |
| Sudets, Vladimir | Soviet aviator, senior air commander during World War II, and Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Thach, John | U.S. Naval aviator during World War II who invented the Thach Weave | |
| Tkhor, Grigorii | Soviet aviator, participant in the Spanish Civil War and deputy commander of an air division during World War II | |
| Trautloft, Hannes | Luftwaffe fighter ace (58 victories) who was amongst the first German volunteer pilots to fight in the Spanish Civil War, and went on to fight in Poland, the Battle of Britain, and on the Eastern Front through the end of the war. | |
| Turzhanskii, Alexander | Soviet aviator and specialist in the development of ground attack aviation tactics | |
| Vandenberg, Hoyt | Second U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff | |
| Vershinin, Constantine | Soviet air commander who commanded the 4th Air Army during World War II and later became Commander in Chief of the Soviet Air Forces | |
| Vinogradov, Vasily | ||
| 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 | |
| Vorozheikin, Arsenii | One of the top Soviet fighter aces during World War II, and a two-time Hero of the Soviet Union | |
| Vorozheikin, Grigorii | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Zhdanov, Vasily | Soviet aviator and senior air commander during World War II | |
| Zhigarev, Pavel | ||
| Zhuravlyov, Ivan | Soviet pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union during the Soviet-Finnish War, and senior air commander during World War II | |
| Zimin, Georgii | World War II Soviet fighter ace and air commander |
[edit] Aircraft
| A-20 Havoc | American built World War II era attack and light bomber | |
| A6M Type 0 | The infamous "Zero", a Japanese carrier-based fighter that was one of the lightest and most agile fighters of World War II, but was vulnerable due to its lack of armor. | |
| Admiralty Type 74 | Biplane seaplane that served with the Royal Naval Air Service during World War I | |
| Ar-2 | Soviet World War II-era dive-bomber | |
| B-17 Flying Fortress | American four-engine heavy bomber that served as one of the work-horses for the allied strategic bombing effort during World War II | |
| B-24 Liberator | American four-engine heavy bomber, produced in greater numbers than any other American combat aircraft of World War II | |
| B-29 Superfortress | American four-engine heavy bomber that was the most advanced US bomber of World War II | |
| BB-22 | Soviet twin-engined light bomber produced just prior to the start of World War II | |
| BB-22bis | An enhanced version of the Soviet BB-22 twin-engine light bomber, based on the more powerful M-105 engines | |
| BI-1 | Soviet rocket-propelled interceptor developed prior to the German Me 163. | |
| Bf 109 | The backbone of the Luftwaffe fighter force during World War II, produced in larger numbers than any other fighter in history, and flown by the three top-scoring fighter aces of all time. | |
| CR.32 | Italian biplane fighter used in the Spanish Civil War and early in World War II | |
| D.520 | French fighter that entered service in small numbers just prior to the German invasion of France and was a close match for the Me 109 | |
| DB-3 | Soviet long-range bomber | |
| Do 17 | German twin-engined light bomber | |
| Do 217 | German World War II-era twin-engined bomber | |
| Do 335 Pfeil | German fighter-bomber design with an unusual push-pull engine layout that saw only limited production prior to the end of World War II | |
| F-82 Twin Mustang | A very long-range escort fighter designed during World War II and used in combat during the Korean War | |
| Fa 223 Drache | German helicopter that saw limited use during World War II and was the first helicopter design to reach series production | |
| Fw 190 | One of Germany's leading fighters during World War II | |
| He 162 | German single-engined jet fighter that entered production towards the end of World War II | |
| He 280 | Germany's first jet fighter prototype, first flown more than 15 months prior to the Me 262 but never developed beyond the prototype phase | |
| He 50 | German dive-bomber and later light night bomber used from the mid-1930s through almost the end of World War II | |
| Hurricane | One of the main British fighters during the early part of World War II, albeit less famous than the Spitfire | |
| I-153 | Soviet biplane fighter that was largely obsolete by the start of World War II | |
| I-16 | ||
| IAR 80 | Romanian designed and built World War II era fighter | |
| Il-10 | Soviet ground attack aircraft introduced towards the end of World War II as a successor to the venerable Il-2 Shturmovik | |
| Il-2 Shturmovik | A heavily armed, heavily armored Soviet World War II ground attack aircraft that was the most famous and most successful Soviet design of the war, produced in larger numbers than any other military aircraft in history. | |
| Il-4 | Soviet World War II-era two-engine long range bomber | |
| Ju 52 | German transport aircraft that was used extensively by the Luftwaffe, including some use as a medium bomber | |
| Ju 88 | German World War II-era twin-engined bomber | |
| L-1 Vigilant | Liaison and light observation aircraft used by the US Army Air Forces during World War II | |
| La-5 | Soviet World War II-era fighter | |
| La-5FN | Soviet World War II-era variant of the La-5 fighter with a "turbo boost" capability that could give the plane an extra burst of power for about ten minutes | |
| La-7 | Soviet World War II-era fighter, flown by leading allied ace Ivan Kozhedub and also distinguished as being the only Soviet fighter to shoot down a German Me 262 | |
| Li-2 | Soviet license-built version of the DC-3 transport | |
| MBR-2 | Soviet reconnaissance flying-boat that served with the Soviet Navy before and during World War II | |
| MS.406 | The most numerous French fighter type in service at the start of World War II, but not equal in performance to the German Me 109 | |
| Me 163 Komet | German built World War II rocket-powered interceptor. | |
| Me 262 Schwalbe | The world's first operational jet fighter, introduced by Germany in late 1944. | |
| MiG-3 | Soviet fighter aircraft deployed just prior to Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, on a par with the leading German fighters of the time. | |
| P-39 Airacobra | US fighter design that saw extensive service during World War II, particularly with the Soviet air forces | |
| P-40 Warhawk | American fighter and ground-attack aircraft that saw extensive use in several different countries over the course of the war | |
| Pe-2 | A highly capable World War II-era Soviet dive bomber. | |
| Pe-3 | Soviet World War II-era high-altitude, long-range two-seat "heavy" fighter | |
| Pe-3bis | Soviet World War II-era two-seat night fighter | |
| Po-2 | Heavily produced Soviet biplane trainer and general utility aircraft that served throughout the 1930s and World War II | |
| SB | Soviet fast bomber that served effectively in the late '30s but was mostly obsolete by the start of World War II | |
| Spitfire | The iconic British fighter of World War II | |
| V-173 | Experimental all-wing V/STOL aircraft design | |
| Vampire | Britain's second type of jet-engine fighter produced during World War II, but not used in combat | |
| XF5U | Experimental US Navy fighter prototype with an all-wing V/STOL design, developed from the V-173 but never flew | |
| YB-40 Flying Fortress | Variant of the B-17 bomber developed by the US Army Air Corps during World War II to test the concept of a heavy bomber escort | |
| YR-4 Hoverfly | The first helicopter used by operationally by the U.S. military, in Burma during World War II | |
| Yak-1 | Soviet fighter aircraft that began entering service just prior to World War II and was comparable in performance to the latest German fighters | |
| Yak-3 | Highly capable, small, and fast World War II-era Soviet fighter plane | |
| Yak-6 | Soviet World War II transport/utility and light bomber aircraft | |
| Yak-7 | Soviet World War II-era high-performance trainer that was also converted for duties as a "heavy fighter" | |
| Yak-9 | Soviet World War II-era fighter that was the most heavily produced Soviet design of the war |
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