The Development:
The American Air Force was created as a result of Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, being bombed by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor held numerous amounts of American boats which had approximately 350 planes on them, in case they needed to be deployed from the sea rather than the land. Japan decided to bomb America 's defense force because they wanted to take over the pacific, and in order to do that they had to weaken America 's defense force. When the Japanese destroyed a majority of their already minimal air force, America developed a significantly larger and better air force to declare war on Japan. This was the begging of America 's air force being involved in the Second War.
The purpose behind the development: …show more content…
Therefore American planes during the First World War were mainly used for spotting, where planes would fly overhead of an enemy camp and record notes or draw pictures of what 's happening. Some things that would have been recorded, for instance, was whether trenches were being dug, its location, and its progress to determine whether they 're suspecting an attack or not, however there was only 800 American aircrafts which was significantly less than Germany 's 3,600 and Russia 's …show more content…
Later, instead of buying planes over the course of the Second War, America had their own mass development of planes. The US alone had manufactured around 276,000 planes just for the Second World War. The main planes that were developed were fighters and bombers another less popular type were transports. There were certain planes that were incredibly popular, like the P-47 “More than 15,600 [P-47] Thunderbolts were manufactured between 1941 and 1945 and they served in every theatre of the war.” (MilitaryHistoryNow.com,
The American Air Force was created as a result of Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, being bombed by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor held numerous amounts of American boats which had approximately 350 planes on them, in case they needed to be deployed from the sea rather than the land. Japan decided to bomb America 's defense force because they wanted to take over the pacific, and in order to do that they had to weaken America 's defense force. When the Japanese destroyed a majority of their already minimal air force, America developed a significantly larger and better air force to declare war on Japan. This was the begging of America 's air force being involved in the Second War.
The purpose behind the development: …show more content…
Therefore American planes during the First World War were mainly used for spotting, where planes would fly overhead of an enemy camp and record notes or draw pictures of what 's happening. Some things that would have been recorded, for instance, was whether trenches were being dug, its location, and its progress to determine whether they 're suspecting an attack or not, however there was only 800 American aircrafts which was significantly less than Germany 's 3,600 and Russia 's …show more content…
Later, instead of buying planes over the course of the Second War, America had their own mass development of planes. The US alone had manufactured around 276,000 planes just for the Second World War. The main planes that were developed were fighters and bombers another less popular type were transports. There were certain planes that were incredibly popular, like the P-47 “More than 15,600 [P-47] Thunderbolts were manufactured between 1941 and 1945 and they served in every theatre of the war.” (MilitaryHistoryNow.com,