Air power Quote by Carl Andrew Spaatz

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was…

— Hideki Tojo

Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and…

— Omar N. Bradley

“Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she was winning,…

— Ruth Benedict

The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations…

— Carl Andrew Spaatz

Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.

— Patricia Schroeder

I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence…

— Holland Smith

For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the…

— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later,…

— Peter Bergen

Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.

— Albert Kesselring

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

— Winston Churchill

“To continue to utilize the forces of our Air and Navy without an effective ground element cannot be decisive.”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men had shown…

— Duane P. Schultz