Sentence examples for axis aircraft from inspiring English sources

Some 35,000 Bf 109s were manufactured in all, more than double the number of any other Axis aircraft.

However, on 16 April, 13 Spitfires ran into a large formation of Axis aircraft.

The NASAF claimed 201 Axis aircraft destroyed including 40 in the air.

Some 80 90 Axis aircraft were counted, poorly camouflaged and vulnerable.

Until then Axis aircraft could fly inland almost at will as long as they remained at low altitude.

For his efforts in the destruction of Axis aircraft during this period, Brennan was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Ironically, the most capable all-around Axis transport aircraft of the war was the Japanese navy's L2D3, a military version of the DC-3 that was manufactured under license in Japan from data purchased from Douglas Aircraft in 1938.

The end of the airlifts at Stalingrad and in the Kuban allowed the expansion of Axis transport aircraft to 185 by 10 March.

When they reached the Sicilian coast, Axis anti-aircraft fire shot down thirty-seven and a further ten were damaged and forced to abort their mission.

Open image in new window Fig. 9 Axis of an aircraft.

Following the outbreak of World War II on 3 September 1939, Centaur was equipped with a stern-mounted 4 inches Mark IX naval gun and two.303 Vickers machine guns located on the bridge wings for protection against Axis warships and aircraft.