Sentences with phrase «day invasion»

The D - Day invasion in Normandy was one of those.

You'll be there for the D - Day invasion on the beaches of Normandy, the violent push into Paris and onward into the heart of Germany itself.

Right from its opening chapter, which takes place during the D - Day invasion of Normandy, Call of Duty: WWII astonishes with its graphical presentation.

The D - Day invasion of Normandy will be included in the game.

The single players story for Earned in Blood is split into three chapters; the first part covers time during initial D - Day invasion; the second part takes place during the liberation and subsequent defense of Carentan - in this chapter players are in command of the 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon; and the final chapter takes place around Saint - Sauveur - le - Vicomte.

Normandy has been the setting for many battles over the centuries, including the D - Day invasion of WWII, and the Normandy Beaches mean different things to different people, so you'll have a rare choice to visit several of its historic sites, such as Utah and Omaha beaches, Juno Beach or the famous 11th - century tapestry depicting the Battle of Hastings.

Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat.

The film is set in the days leading up to the D - Day invasion of Normandy.

The film's lengthy opening sequence recreating the D - Day invasion is pulse - pounding and unforgettable, and the film that follows is truly epic.

The story takes place over the first few days of June 1944, as the Allied military leaders make final preparations for the D - Day invasion.

The bad news is that it is a hash, choosing to jumble the historical record and frame a Churchill bout with depression against the D - Day invasion of France by Allied forces.

He joined the infantry and, as a rifleman in the First United States Infantry Division (aka «the Big Red One»), he participated in the Allied assault on North Africa in 1942, fought his way through Sicily, landed in the first wave on Omaha Beach during the D - Day invasion of Normandy, took part in the liberation of France and Belgium, and marched into Germany, where his squad helped liberate the Falkenau Concentration Camp.

Who: Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth, Bill Pullman and Maika Monroe What: Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat.

They're trained and set loose at a French chateau to kill high - ranking Nazis so that the German chain of command is in shambles during the D - Day invasion.

Salinger becomes more down in the dumps when he's drafted into the Marine Corps after the attack on Pearl Harbor and is in the D - Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

During the WWII D - Day invasion, a squad of soldiers led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) is sent into Normandy to find Private James Ryan (Matt Damon), and return him to his mother in America...

So in the book we use them together — the D - day invasion at Normandy as well as the ground - pounder in Berlin — to try to take out the Nazi leadership.

Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino on Monday said he has no plans to return donations generated by a grassroots organization that used images of the D - Day invasion to raise money for his campaign.

Within seconds of picking up the pace along the course, people in front of me fell like the opening scenes of the D - Day invasion in Saving Private Ryan.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships larger than the D - Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the ark.

To commemorate the occasion, a group of artists and volunteers created 9,000 silhouettes in the sands of Arromanches Beach, one of the sites of the Normandy D - Day invasion of 1944.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Arc.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000 species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!

Had there been no Russian Front, a D - Day invasion would have been impossible for the other allies.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark..

The Nazi strategic answer to this «vise» of attacks was an unexpected, but sharp and powerful attack in the West to drive the Allies back to the D - Day invasion beaches, freeing the Nazis to turn their armies on the Soviet Union.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

His criminal trial on felony invasion of privacy charges begins May 14, four days before the special session.

About 40 years later, the stock market reacted very similarly in the days leading up to, and in the year following, the invasion of Iraq in March of 2003.

Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14 animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

It is a «series of events» by which a war breaks out that will cause the invasion of Israel by the Land of Magog — modern - day Russia — and Persia — modern - day Iran — that will lead up to the «Battle of Armageddon'the appearance of the «Anti-Christ.»

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In the first days of the Lebanon invasion, correspondents talked about an «estimated» 10,000 killed and 700,000 homeless.

The theme that Israel was behaving like Nazi Germany was popular with a great many journalists during the first days of the Lebanon invasion.

But the book takes a rather surprising turn when Besançon discusses how icons came to be, in the author's view, fetishized by the Orthodox churches, especially by Russian nationalists» the most flagrant case being Joseph Stalin's order that icons be displayed in Moscow the day after Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941 to whip up nationalist fervor in his atheist state.

Or the courage of SHAEF commander Dwight D. Eisenhower: Was there ever a decider more alone, and with more weight on his four - starred shoulders, than Ike, making the right call on June 4th (to defer the invasion for a day because of weather) and then getting it right again on June 5th (setting the invasion for June 6th, after the meteorologists told him there was a brief window of opportunity)?

In the days before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. officials spoke of a «democratic domino effect,» by which the installation of a democratic government in Iraq would set off a wave of pro-democratic regime changes elsewhere in the Middle East.

Israel characteristically looked for a future Day of the Lord, but Isaiah may have had the discernment to recognize that a Day of the Lord may have occurred in the events surrounding Sennacherib's attempted invasion of Judah in 701 B.C. 15 But it is difficult to discern the decisive action of God in the vicissitudes of this life.

In the preceding century, in the early days of the Swedish invasion, some missionaries came from England.

In the days of the invasions even abbots as well as bishops donned armor over their cassocks to repel raiders.

A World War II veteran who lived through the invasion of Normandy on D - day, Gene returned home to Petaluma, CA to found what is now one of the most respected dairy processors in the country, and became a pillar of his community, known for his generosity to those less fortunate.

Nearly eight years after Sean Taylor was fatally shot while protecting his family during a home invasion, the free safety's presence is still felt every day by Washington's players and fans

Within two days of the New City home invasion and gun robbery, the Journal News took down the gun map.

In 2004 he signed an early day motion attacking the «so - termed «humanitarian» invasion of Kosovo.»

«The collapse is the most dramatic of any modern - day prime minister, worse even than Neville Chamberlain who in 1940 dropped from plus 21 to minus 27 after Hitler's invasion of Norway,» the Sunday Times said.

Before the 1967 Six Day War, when Israel defeated the Arab invasion and took control of the West Bank and Gaza (which had been under the arm of Egypt), there had never been demands from Palestinians in the disputed Territories for a second Palestinian State, as they were under Jordanian rule.

«Too early to panic,» Alistair Darling told Chris Mullin, 10 days before the invasion of Iraq.

«My colleagues and I have said that the day of the unfortunate invasion was a sad day for democracy.

The Deputy Minister has come under intense criticisms for days after passing uncomplimentary comment about people from the Northern region in the wake of the armyworms invasion.