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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War, episode 94, Interwar Airpower, Part 3, National Overviews.

This week, a big thank you goes out to Dave, Kiano, Isaac, and Daniel

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slash members. While there were some common trends among all air forces during the interwar years,

and we've discussed two of those during the last few episodes with close air support and strategic bombing,

each nation's air force was unique and experienced unique challenges and had different answers

to how they wanted to contribute to their nation's military efforts.

Over the next three episodes, we are going to look at the situation in several of these nations.

We've touched on several of these nations before, with previous episodes discussing France, Germany, and Japan.

But during these episodes, we will try and look at three different questions that can tell us a lot about how each nation viewed air power and how each nation planned to use it in a war.

Question number one, what was the primary role of air power?

Question number two, how were the air units of each military organized and how much freedom did they have? And then question

number three, how did the economic and industrial realities unique to each nation affect their

planning and preparations? In this episode, we're going to cover France, Japan, America, Russia, and Poland.

In the next episode, we will discuss Germany and Italy, and then in the final episode, we will

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