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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 ...11 KB (1,667 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,326 words) - 06:38, 5 April 2024
- 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 ...18 KB (2,632 words) - 01:35, 11 November 2022
- 2 are "suicide vests" worn by a bomber, and type 3 devices are vehicles ... Modern military bomber aircraft are designed around a large-capacity ...13 KB (2,042 words) - 07:18, 17 November 2023
- *Saab 17 (bomber/dive-bomber) *MFI-15 Safari *Saab 18 (bomber) *Saab 21 (push-prop) *Saab 21R (jet) *Saab 29 Tunnan ...20 KB (2,871 words) - 20:36, 17 April 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,560 words) - 21:26, 7 January 2023
- 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 ...44 KB (6,668 words) - 07:18, 17 November 2023
- 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 ...41 KB (6,464 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
- In 1932 Baldwin would tell the Commons: "The bomber will always get through. The only defence is offence." He started a rearmament ...18 KB (2,603 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2022
- 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 ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- The defendants claimed they had no knowledge of the bomber at all. Reitzel, later hinted they knew who the bomber was. After the hangings, ...46 KB (6,999 words) - 15:07, 25 January 2023
- First") to the nation for evaluation as a bomber, and in early 1936 the modified design was designated Blenheim Mk.I ===Later career=== ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- *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 ...9 KB (1,222 words) - 21:24, 20 March 2024
- 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 ...19 KB (3,058 words) - 08:12, 18 March 2024
- and capable of accommodating an entire bomber crew learning how to fly ... **B-17 Flying Fortress, B-17 Bomber simulator in WWII **European Air ...23 KB (3,448 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- org/articles/government-politics/bell-bomber Bell Bomber] {{succession box| title=Commanding General of U.S. Army Europe| before= Joseph T. McNarney | ...11 KB (1,629 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- 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. ...37 KB (5,256 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- and anti-aircraft fire devastated the dive bomber and torpedo plane elements ... Severe losses of dive-bomber and torpedo-bomber crews in the carrier ...45 KB (7,129 words) - 05:57, 11 March 2024
- 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 ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- Millennium," the first 1,000-bomber raid by the Royal Air Force ... Millennium," the first 1,000-bomber raid by the Royal Air Force ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 22:35, 7 January 2024
- 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
