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“Air Force in an Offensive Operation and the Strug- Alliluieva, Nadezhda, x
gle for Air Superiority” (Rychagov), 185 ammunition
air reconnaissance, 251 German reserves of, 132–133
air superiority German seizure of, 131–133, 134, 215
in airborne troop delivery, 77 location of factories, 130
conference paper on, 185 storage issues, 131
loss of Soviet, 71 Ammunition Narkomat, 129, 132
methods of attaining, 66–67 amphibious tank, 53–57
in Mongolia, 105–106 Amur military flotilla, 194, 270, 274
airborne assault troops Amur River, 273
command staff for, 75 animal transport, 241
in Far East campaign, 274 anti-aircraft defense, German, 33
German, in Crete, 235 Anti-Hitler Coalition, 220
in mountainous battle areas, 196 anti-tank defenses, Soviet, 173
scenario for use of, 77–78 Antonov, Alexander, 168
Soviet creation of, 73 Antonov, Oleg, 76
training of, 73–74 Antonov-Ovseenko, A., 21, 102, 207
transport planes for, 75–77 Anttila, A., 137
use as reserve infantry, 80 army. See Soviet army
aircraft and aviation. See also specific platforms artillery
armored aircraft, 67 railroad, 147
aviation arms race, 65 rocket systems, 58–59
comparison of German and Soviet, 69 Soviet superiority in, 133–134
in defensive war, 64 use against pillbox fortifications, 142–143
German anti-aircraft defenses, 33 Arushunyan, Agrat, 198
glider development, 75–77 Ashkhabad earthquake, xvii
mobilization of, 214–215 Augustow canal, 255
in Operation Barbarossa, 242–243 Austria-Hungary, 3
pilot training, 65, 66 automobile roads, 166
Project Ivanov competition, 60 automobiles, in Operation Barbarossa, 241
Soviet air armies, 37 Aviation Narkomat, 129
Soviet-German cooperation in production of, Avtorkhanov, A., 105, 207
17–18 Azarov, I. I., 194, 208, 216
strategic. See strategic aviation
strategic relocation of, 223 B-5N light bomber, 62–63, 64
U.S. in factory construction, 26 Bagramian, Ivan, 75, 198, 199, 209, 210, 253
U.S. use of Soviet airbases, 268 Baltic fleet, 10, 148, 194
Aliabushnev, F. E., 209 Baltic Sea defenses, 147, 148

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