Sentences with phrase «us bombing raids»

By creating a «smoke curtain» they hope to impede visibility from warplanes that have been carrying out bombing raids.

A group of IRA terrorists carry out a bombing raid in London.

Cohen discusses the now - famous photograph of Omar Daqneesh — a heartbreaking image of a boy covered in rubble, victim of a bombing raid by (presumably) the Assad regime.

WHY are we / NATO still conducting bombing raids in Libya?

I know what it was like for my uncle to be involved in bombing raids to civilian targets in WWII.

Once when the bunker in which the «prominent» prisoners were kept was hit directly during a heavy bombing raid, the prisoners began to scream wildly, but Bonhoeffer stood quietly.

In addition, Tiger has helped care for the wounded after bombing raids on Aba, his home town, and Ogui.

I was among those shouting out at Song for his bombing raids, but I now realized during the Chelsea game (he did the same thing for several matches) that it was the pattern he was told to play by Wenger.

Until the kidnappings, the air force had been mounting near - daily bombing raids since mid-January on the Sambisa Forest and mountain caves bordering Chad.

MPs will vote on Wednesday on whether the UK should join bombing raids in Syria within days, David Cameron has confirmed.

In October 2001, Marsden flew to Pakistan and the Afghan border to highlight the effects of the US bombing raids which had sent waves of refugees across to Pakistan.

When senior Labour MP Mike Gapes was challenged on social media about his attacks on Comrade Corbyn over the Labour leader's disastrous response to the Salisbury poisoning and the Syrian bombing raid, he had a succinct response.

The ex-London Mayor also said he was not in favour of extending RAF bombing raids against ISIS from Iraq into Syria.

ALLIED bombing raids during the second world war inadvertently experimented on the weather by producing huge contrails over south - east England.

First the zoo sustains major damages during a bombing raid, and then German soldiers take over the compound and use it as an armory.

An adjutant provides support for an Allied flight commander and the latter's successor who have to run daylight bombing raids out of England.

The opening credits consist of chunks of rubble, which form from the residuum of a bombing raid.

In an early scene of a German bombing raid, Florya temporarily goes deaf.

Sellers was also slated to play the cornpone captain of the top plane on the bombing raid, «King» Kong, but dropped out for medical reasons (or, perhaps, as some say, because he was having trouble getting the accent).

Yasujiro Ozu's first post — World War II film takes place in an impoverished Toyko neighborhood that has been partly destroyed in bombing raids.

A German bombing raid leaves Veronika homeless and her own family dead.

A kindergarten student was watching the news on television with his grandfather when the initial bombing raids on Iraq were announced in 2003.

With the 30th anniversary of the conflict this task takes a look at the bombing raid on Port Stanley which was at the time the longest bombing raid ever mounted.

After being badly damaged in a WWII bombing raid Oulton Hall and the parkland became government property and in the early fifties a local motor club, the Mid-Cheshire Car Club, began using what was left of the original park roads as a circuit, with the first race taking place in 1953.

Kak, 16, illegally enlists in the Canadian Air Force in 1943 and experiences the horror of war as he battles his fear of flying in the bombing raids over Germany.

During the Blitz, bombing raids instead focused on civilian and industrial targets in London and other cities.

With the help of her accordion - playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.

They would radio each other before bombing raids and we would here them call it «dropping candy.»

Visions of War Above and Below A survey of war art in the age of flight and submarines, from surrealist aeroplanes to bombing raids and war under the sea, this exhibition captures the perceptual extremes of modern conflict.

From mad wallpaper - maker William Morris's Red House in Bexleyheath to Kurt Schwitter's fabled Merzbau in Hanover (which was destroyed during an Allied bombing raid) to Max Ernst's remote deserst compound in Arizona, the fantastically designed homes in this gorgeously illustrated book are important expressions of the artists» inner lives.

Somewhat appropriately for an anti-war style of artwork, it was destroyed during an allied bombing raid in 1943.

He didn't just paint skies; he had flown through them, as a navigator on Flying Fortresses in bombing raids over Europe, eventually being invalided out of the USAF with battle fatigue.

«The force of the magnitude 8.9 earthquake followed by a tsunami is far worse than would be inflicted even by a direct - hit airline crash or bombing raid.

I stayed in a hotel in Santiago opposite the partially destroyed palace where Allende himself had been killed on the first day of the coup in a bombing raid by planes of Chile's own air force.

Not exact matches

For the US, bombing would focus on daytime raids against strategically valuable targets — factories, ports, military bases, and other infrastructure involved in the war effort.

On the fifth day, British Special Air Service — an elite reserve force that typically intervenes during extreme hostage situations and counterterrorism raids — stormed the prison with smoke bombs and stun guns, according to The Scotsman.

On Dec. 8, 1941, Singapore, along with Pearl Harbor, was bombed in a predawn raid.

The radical Islamic group — which recently pledged allegiance to ISIS — is known for campaigns of mass murders, village raids, terrorist bombings and mass abductions.

Boko Haram has killed thousands of people in Nigeria and surrounding areas — most of them Muslims — in village raids, bombings and mass shootings in the last seven years.

Boko Haram has killed 10s of thousands in the region, displaced millions and has committed horrific atrocities including mass kidnappings, indiscriminate murders, village raids, mass rape and dozens of suicide bombings.

On one such raid, early in the morning of July 27, ten thousand tons of high - explosive and incendiary bombs were intentionally dropped on the city's densely populated residential districts.

His legacy will stay there for quite sometimes unless «ze germans» decided to bomb London again and hit the Emirates in one of the raids.

I lived a short walk from Highbury in Finsbury Park but the Germans had bombed our state - of - the - art stadium during one of the Luftwaffe's many air raids.

He insisted the raids were nothing to do with the July 7th bombings on the London transport network last summer.

Damage from the London fogs and the encroachment of the Thames, terrorist bombs and the extensive damage during the great air raid of the 10 May 1941 which destroyed the Commons Chamber.

The militants retaliated by stepping up their bombing campaign in cities and raiding small towns and villages.

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Warriors dive - bombed one another in dramatic airborne raids.

He called the bombing a «counterattack,» a response to government raids at Ruby Ridge, in Idaho in 1992, and outside Waco, Tex., in 1993.