Sentences with phrase «by an enemy plane»

But with so many British and Allied soldiers stranded on the French beaches in 1940, surrounded by enemy planes at every turn, the probability of their evacuation seemed miniscule, the probability of German invasion extremely likely.

Characters are attacked by sharks, shot at by an enemy plane and subjected to dehydration and starvation.

Not exact matches

In June of that year, he led a flight of U.S. defenders against an 80 - plane attack by Japanese forces, disrupting the attack and shooting down seven of the enemy.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

It's like fighting the battle of Britain by grounding the airforce and using the artillery, hoping the odd unescorted plane may do irreparable damage to the enemy's capabilities.

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, on Thursday alleged plot by his political enemies to bomb his plane, saying the alleged plot would fail.

As a rookie pilot, you must demonstrate your courage against enemy planes by fighting in aerial duels.

Alongside that you have Muselpheim, a challenge «plane» where you can earn various rare rewards to upgrade Bayonetta by beating a variety of challenges such as beating a group of enemies with a single combo or in a tight time limit.

After his plane crashed into the ocean, he survived for over 40 days with little food or water but was later rescued by the enemy and taken prisoner by Japanese forces, where he was severely beaten and mistreated.

Scoring is earned by each successful hit on enemy planes via the Blue Flamingo's arsenal (i.e., guns and bombs) and collecting gold coins that drop for each successful take down of enemy groups.

In some stages, Cuphead pilots a plane to defeat his enemies, and this adds even more variety to the gameplay, not to mention new mechanics by which you must thwart your foes.

It did by presenting side - scrolling levels that were laid out across two planes of depth, encouraging players to hop between the foreground and background to fight enemies and find secrets.

When attacked, enemies will come at Batman from angles which will allow the game to utilise the series trademark freeflow combat system by attacking enemies in the background and foreground as well as in the games 2D plane.

First released in arcades in 2000, this enhanced version of the classic shooter retains the classic Buzz system that lets players enjoy the thrill of leveling up by avoiding direct hits and evading enemy attacks just enough to graze their planes.

You might be driving down the road when you have to suddenly slam on the brakes because a pig that is on fire being chased by a bear just ran across the road, or you might be holding off incoming enemies atop a church when a patrolling plane decides to strafe you.

Enemy planes put up a decent fight, and in some missions you'll run into planes flown by other Peanuts characters or the Red Baron himself which will take some work to bring down.

The game is very much an arcade game where the objective is to stay alive the longest and gain the highest score possible by shooting down enemy planes and objects on the hectic battlegrounds you will be thrust onto.

Highlights include a black and white city landscape which invites you to smash buildings as they pop up beneath you whilst fighting off waves of planes doing their best to take you down, and a game that puts you on a circling platform with the ability to destroy various enemies that populate the screen by slinging shots at them from your arms.

Instinctively, Paul Veer decided on a palette inspired by Nintendo's Game Boy, that just used four colors: a beige for the background, white for bullets and clouds, sand brown for the plane, and a dark, brownish red for enemy ships and airplanes.

First of all you are never fighting alone — you're always surrounded by squad mates and as you make your way across the battlefields you'll see other units fighting the enemy, artillery exchanges, and planes roaring overhead.

You'll also need to focus on shooting down enemy planes by using the fire button and keep an eye out for any power - ups that can turn the tides of battle instantly.

Enemies will always be indicated by a red cursor once you're close enough, or by the more obvious fact that they are firing at your plane.

She has become fascinated by the sound of stars from the dark skies of Northumberland, only audible with specific radio devices, and the pre-radar acoustic sound mirrors dotted along the North East coastline that attempted to detect the sound of enemy planes up until 1919.

Lieutenant McLeod was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1918 after he and his observer, Lt. A.W. Hammond, M.C., were attacked by eight enemy planes and crashed in No Man's Land.

Careful planing is necessary so your enemies will suffer terribly, but you won't be harmed by the Law or by your enemies» allies.»