Forward air control: a Royal Australian Air Force innovation.(military aircraft)

Since military aircraft first appeared in the skies over the battlefield they have threatened to intervene decisively in the land-battle. In World War I evidence of this power was demonstrated in Palestine during the Battle of Armageddon in September 1918. Following a rupture of the Turkish lines by the Allied ground forces, the British 40th Wing (Army), which included No. 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps, devastated the retreating Turkish forces in scenes that prefigured the destruction of the Iraqi army fleeing Kuwait on the "Highway of Death" during the 1991 Gulf War. (1) The