The bombing Attack of Belgrade was preceded Process_start by the commencement of the ground invasion a few hours earlier , and coincided with air attacks Attack on VVKJ airfields and other strategic targets across Yugoslavia .

The U.S. then constructed airfields on Saipan and Tinian where B-29s were based to conduct strategic bombing missions against the Japanese mainland until the end of World War II , including the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki .

The coral atoll surrounding Surrounding Truk 's islands created Creating a safe harbor where the few points of ingress and egress had been fortified Cause_change_of_strength by the Japanese with shore batteries , antiaircraft guns , and airfields .

Truk remained Presence effectively isolated for the remainder of the war , cut off Having_or_lacking_access and surrounded Surrounding by the American island hopping campaign in the Central Pacific , which also bypassed Departing important Japanese garrisons and airfields in the Bismarck Archipelago , the Caroline Islands , the Marshalls , and the Palaus .

Creating Creating an airlift presented Presence the AAF a considerable challenge in 1942 : it had no units trained Education_teaching or equipped Supply for moving Motion cargo , and no airfields existed Presence in the China Burma India Theater ( CBI ) for basing the large number of transports that would be needed .

The metropolitan operation Military_operation would be led Conquering by Col. Antoine Argoud , with French paratroopers descending on Arriving strategic airfields .

On 22 April all flights and landings were forbidden Preventing_or_letting in Parisian airfields , and an order Request was given Giving to the army to resist Defending the coup Change_of_leadership `` by all means '' .

Units from the 1st Para Brigade dropped Motion_directional near Bône on 12 November , then near Souk el-Arba and Béja on 13 November , and at Pont Du Fahs on 29 November , seizing Conquering airfields , fighting Hostile_encounter as infantry after each action and linking Connect up with an Allied armoured force , supporting Supporting it until December .

On 5 June , Israel launched a series of preemptive air strikes against Egyptian airfields , although there is some debate Communication concerning which side caused Causation the war .

On 1 August , the Luftwaffe was directed Aiming to achieve Achieve air superiority over the RAF with the aim of incapacitating Destroying RAF Fighter Command Request ; 12 days later , it shifted Change the attacks Attack to RAF airfields and infrastructure .

After the battle Hostile_encounter , Allied forces Military_operation continued to expand Expansion their beachhead on Bougainville with the goal of constructing airfields to attack Attack and neutralize Japanese forces Military_operation located at Rabaul and nearby areas .

On that day , 242 Japanese aircraft , in two separate raids Attack , attacked Attack the town , ships in Darwin 's harbour and the town 's two airfields in an attempt to prevent Preventing_or_letting the Allies from using Using them as bases to contest Military_operation the invasion Attack of Timor and Java during World War Military_operation II .

In August , Operation `` Adlerangriff '' ( Eagle Attack ) was launched against RAF airfields in southern England .

To prevent Preventing_or_letting the Germans either relieving Narvik or capturing Conquering airfields within easy range , some small British and French units were deployed Arranging to the southern part of Nordland county early in May .

After the occupation of Buka and Bougainville , the Japanese began Process_start constructing a number of airfields across the island .

The main airfields were on Buka Island , on the nearby Bonis Peninsula and at Kahili and Kieta , while naval bases were also constructed Building at Buin in the south and on the nearby Shortland Islands .

u.s. marines landed Self_motion at cape torokina and established Building a beachhead within which the allies eventually constructed Creating three airfields .