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  1. n. The act of using aircraft to attack an enemy to assist ground military forces.

Examples

  • “The 16-man team spent 6 weeks marking all the targets and fighting the baddies with no air support to speak of and even took what Shepherd called “blue-on-blue” fire.”

    Simon & Schuster: MY EMPIRE OF DIRT

  • “Tell him we need more air support from the etheric realms above here on the ground down here on earth.”

    Simon & Schuster: Surrender the Dark

  • “The requested air support arrived, but a unit of HE-111s dropped some of its bombs on the 76th Artillery Regiment's 4th and 8th Batteries, commanded by Major Aschoff and Major Graf respectively.”

    Panzer Aces

  • “I was late to the service because the bomb crew and I were assembling bombs and rockets for use by Marine Corps fighter aircraft, providing close air support against the siege of the provincial capital, An Loc.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Book of Miracles

  • “IV Fliegerkorps was to provide 179 combat aircraft to give air support to the attack force.”

    Panzer Aces

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