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- in 1943, in an unarmed De Havilland Mosquito bomber (carried in an improvised cabin in the bomb bay) sent by the RAF. The flight almost ended in ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 09:45, 11 March 2023
- The Fairey Gordon Bomber, designed to act as part of the RAF's colonial "aerial police force" in the Imperial territories that ...21 KB (3,345 words) - 19:07, 4 December 2023
- The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a nine-year period involving the Soviet forces and the Mujahideen insurgents that were fighting to overthrow ...40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
- planned to deploy 45 fighter and 60 bomber aircraft to Guadalcanal once ... next day, attacking one of the Japanese bomber air raids that occurred almost ...54 KB (8,339 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- Maravich was a notorious long-range bomber during his career, but until now he had never played in a league, college or pro, that used the three ...25 KB (3,756 words) - 14:43, 28 March 2023
- RAF Luqa on Malta was extremely crowded with RAF Bomber Command aircraft. The UK deployed the aircraft carriers HMS Eagle, Albion, and Bulwark and France ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- damage caused by the growing strategic Allied bomber offensive is an indication of the degree of industrial under-mobilization in the earlier years ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- missions over Germany, the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, later called the ... Regiment in Eskisehir, and flew fighter and bomber planes. ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- On August 28, 2005, another suicide bomber attacked the central bus station, seriously injuring two security guards and 45 bystanders. ...24 KB (3,637 words) - 10:25, 26 September 2023
- nights of 17th and 18th August 1943 the RAF Bomber Command dispatched raids on the Peenemünde camp employing 596 aircraft and dropping 1,800 tons of ...47 KB (7,340 words) - 17:15, 4 May 2023
- in Terence Rattigan's West End Play for Bomber Command, Flare Path. He returned to the Old Vic in 1946 and stayed through 1948, playing Abel ...26 KB (4,059 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- * Smith, Starr, and Cronkite, Walter. Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot. Bath: Zenith. 2005. ISBN 076032199X * Stewart, James. Jimmy Steward and His ...25 KB (3,865 words) - 16:36, 30 January 2023
- Later in the war two airstrips were built and three bomber squadrons were moved to the islands to conduct raids against Japanese targets in Southeast ...29 KB (4,147 words) - 22:20, 7 January 2024
- *Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team (1942) *Cannery Row (1945) *The Pearl (1947) *East of Eden (1952) *The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957) ...27 KB (4,093 words) - 04:08, 3 May 2024
- Known in German history as the second Battle of Smolensk (August 7, 1943–October 2, 1943), this was a Soviet Smolensk Offensive operation ...33 KB (4,843 words) - 19:49, 13 February 2023
- Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid-nineteenth through ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- on Hiroshima by the crew of the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people. By the end of the year, injury and ...32 KB (4,471 words) - 21:47, 30 January 2024
- erected by the government to mislead would-be bomber pilots. Its most recent threats came from environmental pollution on the banks of the Yamuna ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 03:53, 27 February 2023
- building had served as the headquarters of the Bomber Command of the U.S. 20th Air Force during World War II. The college adopted the name "Indian ...32 KB (4,594 words) - 21:31, 11 November 2021
- gates of Madrid; German Luftwaffe pilots and bomber crews, calling themselves the Condor Legion, were honing their skills as Franco’s air arm. Italy’s ...28 KB (4,420 words) - 22:50, 25 October 2022