* 1946 Railways and British military airfields were attacked several times.

Air defenses, three army bases, and two airfields in Tripoli and Benghazi were bombed.

In the past there were two further airfields which were in operation during World War II, and into the 1960s, located at Ta ' Qali and Ħal Far.

The low-yield warheads were apparently selected to make the weapon unsuitable as a first-strike weapon against hardened targets in the Soviet Union, but could be used in a retaliatory strike against soft targets, or in a pre-emptive strike against unhardened surface targets such as airfields, SAM sites, radar sites and other similar targets, opening a pathway for heavy bombers.

As of 2009, the CIA stated that there were approximately 44, 000 "... airports or airfields recognizable from the air " around the world, including 15, 095 in the US, the US having the most in the world.

Aided by elements of the military, secret airfields and training camps were established, while Office of Strategic Services and Force 136 agents slipped in and out of the country.

A Naval Construction Battalion ( Seabees ) built a sea plane ramp on the lagoon side of Funafuti for seaplane operations by both short and long range seaplanes and compacted coral runways were constructed at Funafuti, with satellites airfields on both Nanumea and Nukufetau.

Several parachute squadrons of the Royal Air Force Regiment were formed in World War II in order to secure airfields for the RAF-this capability is currently operated by II Squadron.

From one of these airfields, they were driven out after the first wave of reinforcements, brought in by Ju-52s, was annihilated by anti-aircraft fire and fierce resistance by some remaining Dutch defenders.

The other two airfields were recaptured as well.

The first raid on Tokyo was the Doolittle Raid of April 18, 1942, when sixteen B-25 Mitchells were launched from USS Hornet to attack targets including Yokohama and Tokyo and then fly on to airfields in China.

Once Allied ground forces had captured islands sufficiently close to Japan, airfields were built on those islands ( particularly Saipan and Tinian ) and B-29s could reach Japan for bombing missions.

However due to the forward position of these airfields, the Royal Air Force Commandos were also trained to secure and make safe these airfields and to help defend them from enemy counter attack.

In military flight simulators, as well as at airfields, model boards were produced for larger areas that included terrain for practicing low flying and attacking targets.

Most early RAF airfields were named after the nearest railway station ; in this case Northolt Junction, ( now South Ruislip ).

Fighter squadrons at airfields in the south-east of England were directed from the station, which was also visited by the Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the Battle, and other foreign leaders throughout the rest of the war.

Most early RAF airfields were named after the nearest railway station ; in this case Northolt Junction, the original name of South Ruislip station.

The two airfields were on each side of Plough Lane ( the lane running north from Russell Hill near Purley, in the accompanying old map ).

To accommodate the ever increasing number of trainees and aircraft, and several satellite airfields were used as part of the Columbus Army Flying School.

The XI Fliegerkorps was to co-ordinate the attack by the 7th Flieger Division, which would insert its paratroopers by parachute and glider, followed by the 22nd Air Landing Division once the airfields were secure.

Work began immediately on the airfield at Tacloban, and commenced on airfields in central Leyte soon after they were captured.

Installations and airfields were maintained by service forces assigned to the Philippine Department, over which neither officer had any authority.

Within of Manila, the Army had six airfields, two of which were auxiliary strips nearing completion.

Other Mosquitoes would patrol around the known Luftwaffe fighter airfields ready to attack any landing night fighters they came across.

Airfields were being constructed as the battle was still being fought, but the delay in the start of the Palaus operation meant that the airfields were not ready in time for the start of the Philippines operations in October 1944.

The best ways to defend the harbor are to have military airfields in close vicinity, to have naval units based in the harbor on a permanent basis, and to be ready to make the harbor unusable by the enemy if they should overcome your defenses.

* 611th Air Support GroupThe 611th Air Support Group at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska consists of two squadrons that provides surveillance radars, Arctic infrastructure including airfields, communications and worldwide ready EAF warriors for homeland defense, decisive force projection, and aerospace command and control in Alaska.

This was during a time of massive construction of airfields in East Anglia, and the 95th's assigned station, RAF Horham ( Station 119 ) was not yet ready to receive the group.

Although the station was ostensibly only a training establishment, information recently de-classified reveals that Gaydon was still part of the strategic plan and in the event of war it was one of airfields to which Victor bombers would have dispersed ready to carry out nuclear strikes against the enemy.

If we could use all the small airfields we have in this country, we could disperse our strategic aircraft by a factor of 10 or more.

In the opening phase of an operation, air forces sought to gain superiority over enemy air forces by attacking aircraft on the ground, bombing their airfields, and seeking to destroy them in the air.

Its stated goal was “ to destroy the Russian forces deployed in the West and to prevent their escape into the wide-open spaces of Russia .” A key factor was the surprise attack which included the near annihilation of the total Soviet airforce by simultaneous attacks on airfields.

In later years this targeting technique has been demonstrated by the use of cruise missiles to neutralize airfields, SAM sites etc.

* Aircraft carrier-ships that serve as mobile seaborne airfields, designed primarily for the purpose of conducting combat operations by aircraft which engage in attacks against airborne, surface, sub-surface and shore targets.

54 effectives of ' L ' Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade ( largely drawn from the disbanded Layforce ) mounted a night parachute insertion onto two drop zones in Bir Temrad, North Africa on the night of November 16 / 17 1941 in preparation for a stealthy attack on the forward airfields of Gambut and Tmimi in order to destroy the Axis fighter force on the ground before the start of Operation Crusader, a major offensive by the British Eighth Army.

Torch was the first major airborne assault carried out by the U. S. The U. S. 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment flew all the way from Britain, over Spain, intending to drop near Oran and capture airfields at Tafraoui and La Senia respectively and south of Oran.

During the conflict, a shipment of bombs that attempted to land in Ireland from USA to Tel Aviv was denied use of Irish airspace and airfields by the Irish Government.

It was operated by a single person and the field was one of a string of emergency airfields between Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, DC until 1938.

He had been tasked with surveying coastal airfields in Queensland that would be suitable for operation of the B-26 Marauders used by the 22nd Bomb Group.

March is one of the oldest airfields operated by the United States military, being established as Alessandro Flying Training Field in February 1918.

The United Kingdom was considered an unsuitable location for air training, due to the possibility of enemy attack, the strain caused by wartime traffic at airfields and the unpredictable climate, so the plan called for the facilities in the Dominions to train British and each others ' aircrews.

It opened in 1907, and was the world's first purpose-built motorsport venue, as well as one of Britain's first airfields, which also became Britain's largest aircraft manufacturing centre by 1918.

They had left Mindanao none too soon, as the complex of airfields was discovered by the Japanese on December 18, 1941 and attacked the following day by Japanese planes based on the carrier Ryujo.