Table of Contents

Introduction

Early Air Forces: 1914–18

Airships: 1914–18

Fighters: 1914–18

Bombers: 1914–18

Aircraft on the Western Front

Aircraft Losses: 1918

Upheaval in Europe: 1920

The Inter-War Years

Empire of the Air

Birth of the Luftwaffe

Spanish Civil War: 1936–39

Japanese War in China: 1937–41

Clippers: Long-Range Transport: 1934–39

European Air Forces

Blitzkrieg: Poland 1939

Scandinavia: Finland 1939–40

Scandinavia: Denmark and Norway 1940

Invasion of the West: 1940

The Battle of Britain: July–September 1940

Bombing: Britain and Germany: 1940–41

Maritime Air Patrol: 1940–41

The Mediterranean: 1940–42

The Balkans: The Fall of Crete

Barbarossa: June 1941

Pearl Harbor: December 1941

Fall of Southeast Asia: 1942

The Battle of the Coral Sea: 1942

The Battle of Midway:1942

The Caucasus and Southern Russia: 1942

Stalingrad: 1942–43

Guadalcanal: 1943

Operation Cartwheel

Bombing Germany: 1942–44

Attacks on Berlin: 1944

North Africa and the Mediterranean: 1942–43

Sicily and Southern Italy

The Eastern Front: March 1943

Ukraine and The Crimea

Carriers in The Pacific

Battle of the Philippine Sea: June 1944

The Island-Hopping Campaign

Closing the Gap: Patrolling The Atlantic

D-Day: The Assault

D-Day: The Aftermath

Market Garden and Varsity: 1944–45

Southeast-Asia: 1944–45

China: 1941–45

Operation Bagration

Special Operations: 1941–45

The End of the Reich

Bombing the Home Islands: 1945

Nuclear War

Berlin Airlift

Korea: 1950–53

The Cold War: 1950–89

The Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962

South-East Asia: 1959–75

Indochina and Vietnam

Arab-Israeli Wars

Air-to-Air Tactics

The Falklands War: April–June 1982

The Gulf War: 1991

Afghanistan: 2006

Index

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About the Author

Malcolm Swanston has been writing and mapping history for over thirty years, working on subjects ranging from Ancient Rome to Vietnam and beyond. With his son Alexander, he has created maps detailing key events in warfare for a wide range of publications, including The Historical Atlas of World War II.
Alexander Swanston has been writing and mapping history for a number of years, working on subjects ranging from Ancient Rome to Vietnam and beyond. With his father Malcolm, he has created maps detailing key events in warfare for a wide range of publications, including The Historical Atlas of World War II.