What are facts about war in the air?

Answer 1

1:Air warfare begain in WW1. 2: Actually that's not altogether tue ! Air warfare began with the use of balloons to observe the enemy ! 3:The Fokker E1 Eindekker was the first successful warplane. 4: Zeppelin airships bombed civillian targets in WW1. 5: 2 planes were in production both at the start & end of WW2: The Spitfire & the ME 109. 6: The ME 163 was rocket powered. 7: The ME 262 was the first Jet engined warplane (Although Gloster had a prototype before) 8: The sinking of the British battleships Prince of Wales & Repulse showed that Japanese air power was powerful & far reaching. 9: Pearl harbor was based, to a certain degree, on the British torpedo attack on the Italian Navy at Tarranto. 10: The defeat of Japanese carrier forces at Midway was crucial to the US in the war in the pacific.