Military Air Forces

Military Air Forces

Military Air Forces

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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 4 to 6
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	5.22

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	challenging words:		combat, aircraft, defend, military, supplies, widely, planes, development, role, during, enemy, nowadays, flight, brothers, than, event
	content words:		World War I., World War, World War II, Pearl Harbor, War II

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Military Air Forces
By Cindy Grigg

¹     Countries have had armies to defend them for thousands of years. Navies, too, have been in use for a very long time. Air forces, though, are less than one hundred years old.

²     The first air forces came into being just before the start of World War I. The first airplane flight had been accomplished by the Wright brothers only a few years before in 1903. By the end of World War I, thousands of planes made up the air forces of the world. World War I boosted the development of aircraft.

³     In World War II, air forces played a major role during the war. .....
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