Noun
an attack by armed planes on a surface target
Source: WordNetAfter Raeder left, Hitler told von Brauchitsch and Halder that the air attack was to start around 5 August, and eight to fourteen days after that he would decide on the landing operation. Source: Internet
A Japanese heavy cruiser was damaged by a nighttime air attack shortly before the battle; it is likely that Allied airborne radar had progressed far enough to allow night operations. Source: Internet
A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged. Source: Internet
Anzac Day was first commemorated at the Australian War Memorial in 1942, but, due to government orders preventing large public gatherings in case of Japanese air attack, it was a small affair and was neither a march nor a memorial service. Source: Internet
By August 1928, total losses in ground fighting and air attack, on the Yemeni side, were 65 killed or wounded (one RAF pilot was killed and one airman wounded).sfn Between the wars the RAF conducted 26 separate air operations within the Aden Protectorate. Source: Internet
Barr (2005), p. 81 The 15th and 21st Panzer Divisions of the Afrika Korps were delayed by a sandstorm and then a heavy air attack. Source: Internet