Sentences with phrase «bombing raids on»

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

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

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.

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.

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 districtOn 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 districton the city's densely populated residential districts.

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

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.

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.

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

He also reported on the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the Los Angeles Northridge earthquake, the Branch Davidian raid near Waco, Texas, Hurricanes Andrew and Hugo and NASA's shuttle missions.

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).

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

Exeter had been bombed in retaliation for RAF raids on Lübeck and Rostock.

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.

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.