On September 1, 1939, as the ground forces of Nazi Germany swept into Poland and precipitated World War II, bombers of the Luftwaffe, the German air force, conducted the war’s first air strikes. During the next year, the Luftwaffe played a principal role in the German Blitzkrieg conquest of almost all of Western Europe. More @Wikipedia
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