Aerial engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Aerial_engagements_of_the_Second_Sino-Japanese_War an entity of type: Thing
The Second Sino-Japanese War began on 7 July 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in the Republic of China and is often regarded as the start of World War II as full-scale warfare erupted with the Battle of Shanghai, and ending when the Empire of Japan surrendered to the Allies in August 1945. The Chinese Air Force faced the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Air Forces and engaged them in many aerial interceptions, including the interception of massed terror-bombing strikes on civilian targets, attacking on each other's ground forces and military assets in all manners of air-interdiction and close-air support; these battles in the Chinese skies were the largest air battles fought since the Great War, and featured the first-ever extensive and prolonged deployment of aircraft carrier fleet
rdf:langString
rdf:langString
Aerial engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War
rdf:langString
Aerial engagements
xsd:integer
4243438
xsd:integer
1116506990
rdf:langString
US Air Forces video: Flying Tigers Bite Back
rdf:langString
Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
rdf:langString
Republic of China Air Force
rdf:langString
American Volunteer Group
rdf:langString
Imperial Japanese Army Air Service
rdf:langString
Soviet Volunteer Group
rdf:langString
United States Army Air Force
rdf:langString
Aerial engagements
xsd:gMonthDay
--08-14
xsd:integer
300
rdf:langString
the Second Sino-Japanese War
rdf:langString
Allied victory
rdf:langString
The Second Sino-Japanese War began on 7 July 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in the Republic of China and is often regarded as the start of World War II as full-scale warfare erupted with the Battle of Shanghai, and ending when the Empire of Japan surrendered to the Allies in August 1945. The Chinese Air Force faced the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Air Forces and engaged them in many aerial interceptions, including the interception of massed terror-bombing strikes on civilian targets, attacking on each other's ground forces and military assets in all manners of air-interdiction and close-air support; these battles in the Chinese skies were the largest air battles fought since the Great War, and featured the first-ever extensive and prolonged deployment of aircraft carrier fleets launching preemptive strikes in support of expeditionary and , and demonstrated the technological shift from the latest biplane fighter designs to the modern monoplane fighter designs on both sides of the conflict. Although a largely dismissed and forgotten war in the Western thinking, the significance and impact of the airwar between China and the Empire of Japan cannot be denied; it was the best opportunity for the Western powers to learn about the development and technological prowess of the enemy that would shock the West with the rude awakening by the end of 1941 when Imperial Japanese ambitions expanded into the Pacific.
xsd:nonNegativeInteger
77814
xsd:string
American Volunteer Group
xsd:string
Imperial Japanese Army Air Service
xsd:string
Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
xsd:string
Republic of China Air Force
xsd:string
Soviet Volunteer Group
xsd:string
United States Army Air Force
xsd:date
1937-08-14
xsd:string
Allied victory
