krellin's just a very angry person, isn't he?

An interesting ice breaker for your speech would be a reference to Snoopy always fighting the Red Baron in the skies over Europe...Teacher's *love* that sort of thing, and it will draw the class's attention.

no, murray, not at all. But I *read* the OP, which stated that he had all the info he needed on WWII....I missed his other post. I could make the same "angry" statement about you since you felt the need to attack me, douchebag.

Please don't troll, I'd like to keep this thread clean for about half an hour :)
Second part, this is the last part so far, but it feels a bit incomplete, any ideas? I'm kind of running out of time and inspiration here, so everything's welcome.

In World War 2, the planes were much more effective. Machine guns, bombs and the aircraft themselves became much better.
In Europe, the first important air battle was the Battle of Britain. In 1940, Germany wanted to use their airforce to destroy the British marine and military facilities. However, they had to defeat the British Royal Airforce first. It didn’t go very well. For weeks there were heavy air battles above South England. The German losses increased and their attacks became less frequent. This was the first time the German advance was halted.
After that, a lot of battles and bombing raids followed.
In december 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbour on Hawaii. About 2100 Americans died and 18 ships got hit. This was the reason for the United States to join the war.
In 1944 the Americans executed Operation Market Garden. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time. Around 35000 paratroopers in the Netherlands. The goal was to take several bridges, however, they failed to hold the Arnhem road bridge. It was a failure, however, the planes did their job well.

Man, called a troll and a douchebag back to back. My feelings are hurt, and I have nothing but love in my heart...

Krellin is right about the Snoopy thing, though, your teacher will love that.

Sorry murray....truly. A little verbal dog-fighting, if you will...

"Picture this, a small white dog white black spots sits atop his dog house, scanning the skies, ever vigilant against his foe. His scarf flaps in the wind, and his pilot's goggles are firmly in place. Snoopy, our hero, is always on guard against the Red Baron over the skies of France!

And thus Charles Schultz in his comic strip Peanuts often captured the drama and glory of air combat during WW I. But what was it really like back then?"

You may use this intro....lol

I'm not certain that I'd be talking so much about paratroopers if your subject is supposed to be combat planes. If it's just military aircraft in general, then go for it.
Also, if you're focusing on combat aircraft "firsts," the Battle of the Coral Sea is the first real aircraft carrier battle. It was a naval battle, but the two fleets never fired directly upon one and other--in fact they never even sighted each other. It was entirely fought by aircraft.

Be sure to talk about the introduction of JET aircraft, particularly by the Germans!

In late WWII, that is...they were *death traps*..

military aircraft is the word I was looking for, thanks :)

krellin, I'm really running out of time here so unless you can explain real quick I think I'll leave JET aircraft out... Like 5 minutes max, or maybe I can get up early tomorrow, I suppose I could...

Also, I added a small note to the end which makes it more complete I think:

Also, the 2 atomic bombs dropped on Japan are delivered by planes.
These are some of the most important achievements with planes in WWII.

By end of WWII, Germans were introducing jet aircraft with a very low survivability rate (less than 50%), including blowing up on take-off...so from WWI to WWII, we went from non-combat observation planes to the precursors to modern jet fighters....but best of all, we got Snoopy out of the deal...

The End. ( I gave you a close, too...lol)

Battle of Britain was the largest air battle in history, a majority of the naval battles in the Pacific used air support. So I guess the answer is yes

Fasces, if you're reffering to the OP, it says WWI, not WWII, if that's not what you mean I don't follow.

Also, I know absolutely nothing about Snoopy (well, the dog, but WWII?), feel free to tell me about it, or was it just a joke? Still have to make a powerpoint, so some more time to give advice I suppose... I should've started earlier lol...

As a pedantic point the Americans did not execute Operation Market Garden. It was the brainchild of Field Marshal Montgomery, who was British. The operation was carried out by a mixture of British, Polish and American airborne divisions in roughly equal numbers (obviously significantly fewer Poles). As such it was an Allied operation and probably the last that was British-led.

@Steephie22: My bad, I misread it, since most of the comments are about world war 2.

Regarding snoopy, he would always day dream as a fighter pilot in world war 1.

There weren't any major air battles in world war 1, to my knowledge, but there were still planes and zeppelins used in bombing raids, and intercepting bombing raids.

Thanks Hereward, no problem Fasces!

Thanks everyone who contributed, I've got a 9,0!

10, being best, one worst, not sure if you guys have the same system :)

We had many systems, including out of ten, out of 12, out of 100, and various letters. I had a physics teacher who was fond of the drawn smiley face (and angry face of doom) but none were better than the French class bien, purely for the joy of scribbling les in front of it in other people's books.