Air Campaign

Sumatra 1944-45: The British Pacific Fleet's oil campaign in the Dutch East Indies

Malaya & Dutch East Indies 1941-42: Japan's air power shocks the world

Central Pacific 1943-45

Rabaul 1943-44: Reducing Japan's great island fortress

Tokyo 1944-45: The destruction of Imperial Japan's capital

New Guinea 1942-43: Halting the last Japanese advance

South China Sea 1945: Task Force 38's bold carrier rampage in Formosa, Luzon, and Indochina

The Oil Campaign 1944-45: Draining the Wehrmacht's lifeblood

South Atlantic 1982: The carrier campaign in the Falklands War

Bloody April 1917: The birth of modern air power

Operation Ro-Go 1943: Japanese air power tackles the Bougainville landings

Kursk 1943

Operation Crossbow 1944: Hunting Hitler's V-weapons

Normandy 1944: The 'Transportation Plan' to cut D-Day communications

France 1940: The first great clash of World War II airpower

D-Day 1944: The deadly failure of Allied heavy bombing on June 6

“Big Week” 1944: Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe

Legion Condor 1936-39: The Luftwaffe develops Blitzkrieg in the Spanish Civil War

Six-Day War 1967: Operation Focus and the 12 hours that changed the Middle East

Operation Allied Force 1999: NATO's airpower victory in Kosovo

Chrome Dome 1960-68: The B-52s' high-stakes Cold War nuclear operation

Holland 1940: The Luftwaffe's first setback in the West