Air Army

An air army was a type of large military formation, comprising several corps or divisions, in the forces of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Empire before, during and after the Second World War. Today only the Russian Federation's Russian Air Force retains air armies.

Air army (Soviet Union)
Air army (Japanese Empire)

Famous quotes containing the words air and/or army:

    “Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
    All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “I declare Billy. I like you so much personally I wish I could vote for you. But bein’ a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, I just as leave cut my throat as to vote for a Democrat.”
    —Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)