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use of the word shahid (martyr) for the bomber or martyrdom operation for ... In the book, Dead for Good: Martyrdom and the Rise of the Suicide ...

Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 13, 1981), better known in the boxing world as Joe Louis, and nicknamed the Brown Bomber, is regarded ...

planned to exhibit the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber which dropped atomic bomb ... *The B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay, the airplane which dropped ...

2 are "suicide vests" worn by a bomber, and type 3 devices are vehicles ... Modern military bomber aircraft are designed around a large-capacity ...

*Saab 17 (bomber/dive-bomber) *MFI-15 Safari *Saab 18 (bomber) *Saab 21 (push-prop) *Saab 21R (jet) *Saab 29 Tunnan ...

in 2004, 14-year-old would-be suicide bomber Hussam Abdo, said: ... [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3567791.stm 'Little bomber ...

might aid the Soviets by using a strategic bomber force. The plan was to bomb ... of the air staff, requested Arthur "Bomber" Harris, commander-in ...

it in May 1941, on the withdrawal of the bomber units in preparation for ... supposed fighter airfields fell instead on bomber or coastal defense installations ...

In 1932 Baldwin would tell the Commons: "The bomber will always get through. The only defence is offence." He started a rearmament ...

its role as the main Allied strategic bomber force used against the Japanese ... Force, a Commonwealth long range heavy bomber unit, made up of 10 squadrons ...

The defendants claimed they had no knowledge of the bomber at all. Reitzel, later hinted they knew who the bomber was. After the hangings, ...

First") to the nation for evaluation as a bomber, and in early 1936 the modified design was designated Blenheim Mk.I ===Later career=== ...

*Dive Bomber 1941 *They Died With Their Boots On 1942 *Desperate Journey 1942 *Gentleman Jim 1942 *Edge of Darkness 1943 *Thank Your Lucky Stars 1943 ...

the ocean, and the first woman to fly a bomber across the Atlantic. She ... where she became the first woman to fly a bomber (a Lockheed Hudson V) across ...

and capable of accommodating an entire bomber crew learning how to fly ... **B-17 Flying Fortress, B-17 Bomber simulator in WWII **European Air ...

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first class], a crew chief on an AT-11 bomber trainer, and I had to change ... enemy aircraft, a German Junkers Ju 88 bomber, over the English Channel. ...

and anti-aircraft fire devastated the dive bomber and torpedo plane elements ... Severe losses of dive-bomber and torpedo-bomber crews in the carrier ...

crew bailed out safely over China when their bomber ran out of fuel. By then they had been flying for about 12 hours, it was nighttime, the weather ...

Millennium," the first 1,000-bomber raid by the Royal Air Force ... Millennium," the first 1,000-bomber raid by the Royal Air Force ...

in 1944, Lindbergh took part in fighter bomber raids on Japanese positions ... missions. On July 28, 1944 during a P-38 bomber escort mission with the 475th ...

Daily U.S. bomber raids from the Marianas hit the mainland as part ... to escort and protect the devastating bomber raids. Intelligence sources ...

states "Combat aircraft (to include fighter, bomber, reconnaissance, jet military trainer, and armed helicopter aircraft) will not fly within 10 ...

Soviets, who did not have a similar strategic bomber, decided to copy the B-29. Within a few years they had developed the Tu-4, a near perfect copy. ...

parade was attacked by a suicide bomber, who caused the death of 140 people. Yet Bhutto continued to campaign. Her alliance with Musharaf appeared ...

avoided the problem of the German tactical bomber force since air attacks were ... Command committed 680 machines, while Bomber Command could contribute ...

At 9:49 a.m. on Saturday July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber flying in a thick fog accidentally crashed into the north side of the Empire State ...

be subjected to a single bomb. If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name ... ===The bomber war=== As early as 1940, British aircraft raided targets ...

Hundreds of Israeli civilians died in suicide bomber attacks carries out by Palestinian organizations during the time of the Oslo Accords. Important sections ...

writers for copying portions about World War II bomber pilots from Thomas Childers's The Wings of Morning in his book The Wild Blue.David D. Kirkpatrick ...

Ulrich Rudel of the Luftwaffe. A Stuka dive bomber pilot, Rudel destroyed 518 Russian tanks, 150 flak and artillery positions, 700 trucks, sunk the ...

of 4,900 at Braves Field saw the "The Brockton Bomber" fight for the first time in person. Rocky knocked Weill down in the first round, but ...

He later flew as a turret gunner in an Avenger torpedo bomber. As a radioman-gunner, his unit was assigned to the aircraft carrier ...

bombers"); and fighters for fleet defense and bomber escort duties. Because of the restricted space on aircraft carriers, all these aircraft were ...

Napoleon III), he was hit by another suicide bomber, mortally wounded by an explosion of hand-made grenades and died a few hours later. Nikolai Kibalchich ...

in mastering the Texas accent of bomber pilot, Major "King" ... Kong's (Slim Pickens) renegade B-52 bomber, where his crew try to complete ...

A fixed-wing aircraft, commonly called an airplane or aeroplane, (from the Greek: aéros- "air" and -planos "wandering") ...

Canada to provide early warning of a Soviet bomber attack on North America. The majority of Mid-Canada Line stations were used only briefly from the ...

backpack-mounted device carried by a suicide bomber; a large car bomb, both of which were detonated in or near popular nightclubs in Kuta; and a third ...

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 ...

The Fairey Gordon Bomber, designed to act as part of the RAF's colonial "aerial police force" in the Imperial territories that ...

The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a nine-year period involving the Soviet forces and the Mujahideen insurgents that were fighting to overthrow ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

damage caused by the growing strategic Allied bomber offensive is an indication of the degree of industrial under-mobilization in the earlier years ...

missions over Germany, the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, later called the ... Regiment in Eskisehir, and flew fighter and bomber planes. ...

On August 28, 2005, another suicide bomber attacked the central bus station, seriously injuring two security guards and 45 bystanders. ...

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 ...

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 ...

* Smith, Starr, and Cronkite, Walter. Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot. Bath: Zenith. 2005. ISBN 076032199X * Stewart, James. Jimmy Steward and His ...

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 ...

*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) ...

Known in German history as the second Battle of Smolensk (August 7, 1943–October 2, 1943), this was a Soviet Smolensk Offensive operation ...

Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid-nineteenth through ...

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 ...

erected by the government to mislead would-be bomber pilots. Its most recent threats came from environmental pollution on the banks of the Yamuna ...

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 ...

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 ...

B1 Stealth Fighter, or B2 Stealth Bomber. An alternative version of the theory proposes that the government created these and other advanced ...

1916, he joined Kampfgeschwader 2 ("No. 2 Bomber Geschwader") flying a two-seater Albatros C.III. Over Verdun on April 26, 1916 he fired ...

Bf-109 fighter and Junkers Ju-52 transport/bomber were both used in the Spanish Civil War. The Soviets provided Polikarpov I-15 and Polikarpov ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Military An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts of the armed forces ...

7 Sep 1940.jpg|left|200px|thumb|German bomber over London in 1940.]] ... [[File:Nürnberg, Altstadt, Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945 ...

South African Air Force. A number of joint-force bomber raids on "terr" encampments and assembly areas in Mozambique and Zambia were mounted ...

sometimes called the "antipodal" bomber. E. Saenger and J. Bredt, [http://www.astronautix.com/data/saenger.pdf A Rocket Drive For Long ...

The Battle for Henderson Field, also known as the Battle of Henderson Field or Lunga Point by the Japanese, took place October 23 – October ...

for all it was worth by the American bomber pilots. Beginning at 10:22, Enterprise’s aircraft attacked Kaga, while to the south, Yorktown’s ...

00.html Mandela appeals on behalf of Lockerbie bomber] * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/1144147.stm Analysis: Lockerbie's long road (BBC)] ...

CR.32 fighter and the German Junkers Ju-52 cargo-bomber, and the rather mediocre Heinkel He-51 biplane fighter On September 21, with the head ...

limited number of Junkers Ju 52 transports, bomber units equipped with aircraft wholly inadequate for the role (such as the Heinkel He-111 and He-177 ...

killed in an airplane accident while flying a bomber on a test mission on August 7, 1941."Commando Supremo: Events of 1941," commandosepremo ...

Radford provided two squadrons of B-26 Invader bomber aircraft to support the French. Subsequently, 37 U.S. pilots flew 682 sorties over the course of ...

Bf 110C twin-engined fighters, and several bomber types. Some later combat types, most notably the BMW 801D-powered Fw 190A, F and G series, ...

Oliphant, flew to the U.S. in August 1941 in a bomber to find out what was being done with the MAUD reports, and was horrified to discover that Lyman ...

one of four bases in the nation to house the B-1B bomber. Fort Leavenworth was established in 1827 as a major outpost while Kansas was Indian ...

Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. Washington is located in the uppermost corner of the Pacific ...

inland pincer, backed by low-flying RAF fighter-bomber support. This campaign demonstrated the battle-winning ingredients of morale (sickness ...

pattern, typically involving only the individual bomber and his support team, but these too are spread out based on prevailing capabilities and political ...

VMF-311, equipped with the F9F Panther jet fighter-bomber, was assigned a variety of missions. He flew 63 combat missions in Korea with VMF-311, and ...

due to the flawed assumption that the manned bomber was fatally vulnerable to surface to air missiles, was the concept of deterrence via assured ...

The Chechen Republic or, informally, Chechnya, (sometimes referred to as Ichkeria, Chechnia, Chechenia or Noxçiyn), is a republic of Russia ...

command of Wallace, he saved his ship from a night bomber attack. He devised a plan to launch a raft with smoke floats that successfully distracted the ...

The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War ( מלחמת יום הכיפורים ; (Romanization of Hebrew transliteration) Milkhemet Yom ...

= Black-and-white portrait of James Dean wearing a bomber jacket and Lee jeans | caption = Dean in 1955 | birth_name ...

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan ...

Japan, and was most likely detonated by a suicide bomber. The United Nations Security Council and the Lebanese cabinet have approved a Special Tribunal ...

at the beginning of the war, the Mitsubishi G3M bomber was remarkable for its range and speed, and the Kawanishi H8K was world's best flying boat. ...

Traveling on a B-24A Liberator bomber, the group toured the Cook Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, Queensland, Brisbane where General Douglas MacArthur ...

another year. On August 6, an American B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb used in combat on Hiroshima. On August 9, the Soviet Union renounced ...

[https://www.foxnews.com/world/suicide-bomber-kills-32-at-baghdad-funeral-march Suicide bomber kills 32 at Baghdad funeral march] Fox News, January ...

risky flight in a high-altitude Tupolev TB-7 bomber flew over German-occupied Denmark and the North Sea. From there, he took a train to London to discuss ...

The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita ) was a World War II battle that occurred on the Greek mainland and in ...

bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4206800.stm London bomber: Text in full] BBC News, September 1, 2005. Retrieved March 18, 2022. Other Muslims argue that ...

weapons systems, including the B-1 bomber, the MX missile, and the Strategic Defense Initiative. Kennedy became the Senate's leading advocate ...

in Britain and were unable to interfere via bomber attacks. Transport infrastructure in France was severely disrupted by Allied bombers and the ...

. By seeking enclosed locations, a successful bomber usually kills a number of people. Palestinian television has aired a number of music videos ...

Point in Hawaii, where it conducted fighter-bomber training before rejoining the ship at the end of July. On August 29, 1951, Armstrong saw action ...

apart from the U.S. with a modern strategic bomber force. As of 2005, 330,000 men are brought into the army via conscription annually, though the army ...