FM 1-15 Army Air Force Field Manual - Tactics and Technique of Air Fighting

An air fight is a combat between aircraft involving fire and movement by the opposing forces engaged. Fighting between aircraft in flight results from or grows out of the attempt to deny air attack and air observation. In air fighting there is no counterpart of the battle between ground forces. Air fighting is incidental to the carrying out of other and potentially decisive air operations. In itself, air fighting is indecisive, except as it affects the success or failure of other technical functions of aviation or ground forces. The permanent effects of air combat are measured in terms of attrition of the forces engaged and reduction in vigor of the enemy's air operations.

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