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- 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 ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
- Daily U.S. bomber raids from the Marianas hit the mainland as part ... to escort and protect the devastating bomber raids. Intelligence sources ...41 KB (6,399 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- states "Combat aircraft (to include fighter, bomber, reconnaissance, jet military trainer, and armed helicopter aircraft) will not fly within 10 ...17 KB (2,490 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- 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. ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 19:59, 8 December 2022
- parade was attacked by a suicide bomber, who caused the death of 140 people. Yet Bhutto continued to campaign. Her alliance with Musharaf appeared ...16 KB (2,396 words) - 09:07, 27 September 2023
- avoided the problem of the German tactical bomber force since air attacks were ... Command committed 680 machines, while Bomber Command could contribute ...78 KB (12,110 words) - 11:42, 20 September 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
- 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 ...51 KB (7,918 words) - 14:29, 12 February 2022
- Hundreds of Israeli civilians died in suicide bomber attacks carries out by Palestinian organizations during the time of the Oslo Accords. Important sections ...20 KB (2,928 words) - 04:40, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 06:23, 24 November 2022
- Ulrich Rudel of the Luftwaffe. A Stuka dive bomber pilot, Rudel destroyed 518 Russian tanks, 150 flak and artillery positions, 700 trucks, sunk the ...23 KB (3,657 words) - 13:20, 6 March 2024
- 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 ...19 KB (3,097 words) - 21:32, 16 April 2023
- He later flew as a turret gunner in an Avenger torpedo bomber. As a radioman-gunner, his unit was assigned to the aircraft carrier ...38 KB (5,689 words) - 17:42, 21 November 2022
- bombers"); and fighters for fleet defense and bomber escort duties. Because of the restricted space on aircraft carriers, all these aircraft were ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- in mastering the Texas accent of bomber pilot, Major "King" ... Kong's (Slim Pickens) renegade B-52 bomber, where his crew try to complete ...59 KB (9,500 words) - 19:51, 9 February 2023
- A fixed-wing aircraft, commonly called an airplane or aeroplane, (from the Greek: aéros- "air" and -planos "wandering") ...20 KB (3,021 words) - 07:09, 16 June 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- 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
- B1 Stealth Fighter, or B2 Stealth Bomber. An alternative version of the theory proposes that the government created these and other advanced ...29 KB (4,399 words) - 01:37, 3 May 2023
- 1916, he joined Kampfgeschwader 2 ("No. 2 Bomber Geschwader") flying a two-seater Albatros C.III. Over Verdun on April 26, 1916 he fired ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 17:23, 7 December 2023
- 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 ...34 KB (5,051 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Military An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts of the armed forces ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- 7 Sep 1940.jpg|left|200px|thumb|German bomber over London in 1940.]] ... [[File:Nürnberg, Altstadt, Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945 ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- South African Air Force. A number of joint-force bomber raids on "terr" encampments and assembly areas in Mozambique and Zambia were mounted ...37 KB (5,599 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- sometimes called the "antipodal" bomber. E. Saenger and J. Bredt, [http://www.astronautix.com/data/saenger.pdf A Rocket Drive For Long ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- The Battle for Henderson Field, also known as the Battle of Henderson Field or Lunga Point by the Japanese, took place October 23 – October ...46 KB (6,816 words) - 11:29, 20 September 2023
- 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 ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- 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)] ...40 KB (6,067 words) - 04:28, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...40 KB (6,158 words) - 04:53, 9 April 2024
- 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 ...43 KB (6,775 words) - 01:36, 26 September 2023
- killed in an airplane accident while flying a bomber on a test mission on August 7, 1941."Commando Supremo: Events of 1941," commandosepremo ...40 KB (6,139 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- 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 ...46 KB (7,166 words) - 11:39, 20 September 2023
- 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, ...47 KB (6,891 words) - 04:38, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...47 KB (6,939 words) - 17:34, 14 May 2024
- 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 ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- 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 ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- inland pincer, backed by low-flying RAF fighter-bomber support. This campaign demonstrated the battle-winning ingredients of morale (sickness ...46 KB (7,157 words) - 15:39, 29 September 2023
- pattern, typically involving only the individual bomber and his support team, but these too are spread out based on prevailing capabilities and political ...49 KB (7,286 words) - 23:47, 6 March 2023
- 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 ...55 KB (7,935 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- due to the flawed assumption that the manned bomber was fatally vulnerable to surface to air missiles, was the concept of deterrence via assured ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- The Chechen Republic or, informally, Chechnya, (sometimes referred to as Ichkeria, Chechnia, Chechenia or Noxçiyn), is a republic of Russia ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- 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 ...61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War ( מלחמת יום הכיפורים ; (Romanization of Hebrew transliteration) Milkhemet Yom ...55 KB (8,557 words) - 16:54, 4 June 2023
- = Black-and-white portrait of James Dean wearing a bomber jacket and Lee jeans | caption = Dean in 1955 | birth_name ...56 KB (8,516 words) - 01:32, 8 February 2023
- 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 ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- Japan, and was most likely detonated by a suicide bomber. The United Nations Security Council and the Lebanese cabinet have approved a Special Tribunal ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- 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. ...62 KB (9,133 words) - 16:43, 12 February 2024
- Traveling on a B-24A Liberator bomber, the group toured the Cook Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, Queensland, Brisbane where General Douglas MacArthur ...63 KB (9,757 words) - 04:36, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...68 KB (9,889 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- [https://www.foxnews.com/world/suicide-bomber-kills-32-at-baghdad-funeral-march Suicide bomber kills 32 at Baghdad funeral march] Fox News, January ...70 KB (9,939 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- 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 ...67 KB (9,419 words) - 21:52, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- 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 ...71 KB (11,340 words) - 17:01, 18 March 2022
- weapons systems, including the B-1 bomber, the MX missile, and the Strategic Defense Initiative. Kennedy became the Senate's leading advocate ...80 KB (11,614 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- in Britain and were unable to interfere via bomber attacks. Transport infrastructure in France was severely disrupted by Allied bombers and the ...85 KB (12,450 words) - 21:54, 26 January 2022
- . By seeking enclosed locations, a successful bomber usually kills a number of people. Palestinian television has aired a number of music videos ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...110 KB (16,075 words) - 19:19, 31 July 2023
- 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 ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022