Sentences with phrase «bombing raids»

"Bombing raids" refers to a military operation where a group of planes drop bombs on a specific target or area. Full definition
The row highlights Labour's deep division over defence, including whether it should back RAF bombing raids in Syria or support renewing Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent.
In addition, Tiger has helped care for the wounded after bombing raids on Aba, his home town, and Ogui.
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.
RAF bombing raids in Syria took a step closer tonight after Jeremy Corbyn backed down on plans to force Labour MPs to oppose military action.
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.
Relocated to the large country home of a complete stranger to avoid the dangers of the WWII bombing raids on the cities of Great Britian, Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmond (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy (Georgie Henley) were really just trying to amuse themselves with a simple game of hide and seek.
A German bombing raid leaves Veronika homeless and her own family dead.
WHY are we / NATO still conducting bombing raids in Libya?
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.
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.
An adjutant provides support for an Allied flight commander and the latter's successor who have to run daylight bombing raids out of England.
World War II bombing raids and explosions are depicted.
A kindergarten student was watching the news on television with his grandfather when the initial bombing raids on Iraq were announced in 2003.
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.
During the Blitz, bombing raids instead focused on civilian and industrial targets in London and other cities.
They would radio each other before bombing raids and we would here them call it «dropping candy.»
In the not too distant past the city suffered bombing raids during WWII, and a violent uprising in 1956; scars of both are still visible on the buildings.
ALLIED bombing raids during the second world war inadvertently experimented on the weather by producing huge contrails over south - east England.
In an early scene of a German bombing raid, Florya temporarily goes deaf.
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.
Valerie and Denis» story starts conventionally enough with descriptions of 1930s childhoods, British wartime experiences (Valerie's family lost their home in a bombing raid) and a postwar romance complete with a wedding photograph with Denis in RAF uniform.
I know what it was like for my uncle to be involved in bombing raids to civilian targets in WWII.
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.
Labour's Diane Abbott has responded to criticism on social media for using a simulated image of a bombing raid in Iran while posting on Twitter about the UK's participation in military strikes in Syria.
First the zoo sustains major damages during a bombing raid, and then German soldiers take over the compound and use it as an armory.
The opening credits consist of chunks of rubble, which form from the residuum of a bombing raid.
Important to note, too, that the moment Stauffenberg hits upon his plan for reorganization is during a bombing raid — and that one of the technical advisors to this film suggested they model this scene of domestic terror on his own memories of the bombing raids carried out against the Brits.
Film - makers such as Milica Zec also took viewers inside an experience — in her case a bombing raid in an urban area — but also made the experience a communal one, with three people watching the film at the same time.
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.
Bomb raids every other day, the production is plagued with diva actors like Ambrose Hilliard (Nighy) and too many departments meddling in the screenwriting office.
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.
Now a teenager, he must return to his dream world to search for his younger sister, Renie, who was separated from him during a bombing raid on their hometown.
Deploy your units on the field, improve your base, invest abandoned building and fortify them to place your snipers, harvest old hospitals or call a bombing raid to destroy a bridge or even the whole block!
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.
Joe Cushley, 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.
«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.
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