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The Spanish airlift of 1936 was a military operation, carried out by the Nationalists during the early phase of the Spanish Civil War. It did not have any specific code name. It did not have any specific code name.
This is a list of all military equipment used by the nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. Weapons. List of Spanish Civil War weapons of the Nationals;
The massive airlift of troops from Spanish Morocco was the world's first long-range combat airlift and allowed Franco's troops to join General Queipo de Llano's forces in Seville. [72] Their quick movement allowed them to meet General Emilio Mola 's Northern Army and secure most of northern and northwestern Spain, as well as central and western ...
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic . [ 10 ]
The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) broke out with a military uprising in Morocco on July 17, triggered by events in Madrid.Within days, Spain was divided in two: a "Republican" or "Loyalist" Spain consisting of the Second Spanish Republic (within which were pockets of revolutionary anarchism and Trotskyism), and a "Nationalist" Spain under the insurgent generals, and, eventually, under the ...
Polikarpov I-16 'Mosca', one of the primary aircraft of the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Civil War. The Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed in 1931 and very soon the republican authorities set up to reform an antiquated military structure that was a financial burden for the Spanish state following the Great Depression. [1]
In the crucial initial phase of the Spanish Civil War, the rebels were able to airlift a significant number of Moroccan troops plus legionnaires across the Straits of Gibraltar, with German and Italian assistance, in order to become the shock troops of the Nationalist battles. [6]
The Condor Legion marching during the Spanish Civil War. The Condor Legion (German: Legion Condor) was a unit of military personnel [nb 1] from the air force and army of Nazi Germany’s Wehrmacht which served with the Nationalist faction during the Spanish Civil War.