PDG Study Guide (SSGT) most Important exam with questions fully solved 2023.

WW1 signaled _______? Airpower's promise. WWII fulfilled ______? The vision. Airpower served as what in every aspect of aerial combat? A force multiplier and a vital component of the joint, combined arms campaign. A Superiority proved ______? A prerequisite for successful land, sea, or air operations. 1 September 1939, Adolf Hilter launched a massive assault on Poland that spawned the term _______? Blitzkreig, "lightning war". The German Air Force is called? Luftwaffe The Luftwaffe employed _______________; ____________; and _____________________ to pound Poland's capital, Warsaw. Messerschmitt Me-109 fighters; Heinkel He-111; and Dornier Do-17 twin engine bombers. The Luftwaffe used ____________ to attack Polish ground troops and terrorize refugees. Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers. In April 1940, German forces surprised neutral Denmark and Norway where ____________? Luftwaffe aircraft inflicted significant damage to Britain's Royal Navy, protected inferior German naval forces, and airlifted German troops to Norwegian airfields. In May 1940 _______________. Hitler's forces invaded the Netherlands and Belgium. Following the June 1940 defeat of France by the Luftwaffe, the victors faces Britain's Royal Navy in the ____________. Battle of Britain, the first all-air campaign in history. The Luftwaffe had ___ medium bombers, ___ dive bombers, ___ single engine fighters, ___ twin-engine fighters, and ___ long-range reconnaissance aircraft to fight the British Royal Navy. 1232, 406, 813, 282, and 50. Opposing the Luftwaffe, ____________ assembled ____ operational aircraft, including roughly _____ Hawker Hurricanes, and ___ Supermarine Spitfires. Air Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding's Fighter Command, 704, 400, and 200. Luftwaffe vs SHD's Fighter Command: Despite the mismatch, Luftwaffe suffered major weaknesses: ____________. Forces in France need rest and refitting. German equipment, training, and experience proved ill-suited to long-range strategic air campaign. SHD's Fighter Command used Sir Robert Watson-Watts innovation, the ______, to create an effect, integrated air defense system. Radar. Sir Hugh Dowding cracked the Enigma machine and an info gained from it was _______ and known as _________. Top Secret, ULTRA. Underestimating British radar, German's first attacked the Royal airfields, then after the Royal Air Forced bombed Berlin 24 August 1940, they switched to _____________. A terror bombing against London. By ____ September _____, Hitler abandoned his planned invasion of Britain. 15, 1940. Winston Churchill stated, "____________" in tribute to the Royal Air Force Fighter Command. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. President Franklin Roosevelt's to fight Nazi tyranny was bolstered by the ________. Fall of France in June 1940.