Sentences with phrase «by war plane»

Originally worn by war plane aviators in the early 1900s and in the Second World War, the bomber jacket cut was adopted to civilian use by skinheads.

Judith Raphael who is known for her paintings of girls in the poses of classical mythology is here presenting the iconic image «Pandora / Caught Red - handed», of a young girl wielding an open red box surrounded by war planes.

Not exact matches

By the Second World War's end, northern forestry and mining, steel mills in Hamilton and Sault Ste. Marie, Sarnia's Chemical Valley, consumer goods, farm implements and plane building in and around Toronto, and auto factories in Windsor, Oakville and Oshawa made Ontario wealthy.

«As it turns out, GE designed, manufactured or supplied parts or maintenance for nearly every important weapons system employed by the USA during the Gulf War, including the much - praised Patriot and Tomahawk Cruise missiles, the Stealth bomber, the B - 52 bomber, the AWACS plane, the Apache and Cobra helicopters and the NAVSTAR spy satellite system.

Picasso's «Guernica» depicted the horrors of the bombing by Nazi planes of a tiny village during the Spanish Civil War, making striking use of the cross to drive home the inhumanity of modern warfare.

Darryl Greenamyer, of Las Vegas, set a world record for unlimited prop planes by flying his World War II P - 51 at a speed of 413.987 mph at the Reno National Championship air races.

After they visited Republican troops during the Spanish Civil War, Ellen's return plane had been hit by lightning but she arrived back to the Commons just in time to move her Hire Purchase Bill, to protect the poorest in society.

I would say that clear defining point of Nuclear War is when a nation achieves what is called «The Nuclear Triad» which refers to the three ways to deliver a nuke to a target: Ground Based Launches, Sea Based Launches (usually uses Submarines) and Sky based Launches (by both missile systems on a plane and gravity bombs).

But in that case you would first have to prove that war crimes were actually committed by the rebels, accidentally shooting down a civilian planes has never before been considered to be a war crime.

Tell so many lies (plane on ebay, distortions listed by other commentators, belonging to a separatist group is no big deal — that civil war was not really important) that you drive the democrats crazy.

The film opens with Ellsberg, played by Matthew Rhys with a fine, forlorn rabbinical iciness, typing notes in the Vietnam combat field, then listening to McNamara on the plane ride back explain that the war is going terribly — only to watch him turn around and play the war's booster at an airport press conference.

Bruce Greenwood looks quite a bit like the Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, round face, rimless glasses, delivering humor to the movie audience by telling officials on a plane that the war was unwinnable, then facing the TV camera to praise our progress.

Recounting the extraordinary life story of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell, «Starred Up»)-- who ran for America in the 1936 Olympics, survived a plane crash during World War II, stayed afloat for 75 days on a life raft before forced internment in a series of Japanese POW camps — Jolie and company seem to be digging into the Spielberg playbook: The movie offers up sun - dappled nostalgia for Depression - era Southern California, harrowing wartime sequences, and even a shark attack, but it serves them all up with maximum efficiency.

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII - only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

This World War II drama centers on Lou Zamperini, who survived a horrific plane crash only to be captured by the Japanese Navy.

On this scale, soap opera and comedy skit bytes can only go so far, and Infinity War manages a succession of double - page - spread awe that sells the cosmic saga: a marvellous trompe l'oeil shot as a camera move reveals the sorry state of Thanos's rebel adoptive daughter Nebula, the by - now - obligatory mass urban destructions and battles with monster hordes on open planes, and gorgeously imaginative outer - space vistas.

The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.

Instead of luscious grassy planes, deserts, and snowy mountains, in Freedom Wars players must tackle a barren network of run - down urban sectors while being constantly surveyed by the omnipresent Panopticon.

Synopsis: After a near - fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp...

It looks like a war movie about life in England during the London Blitz, when air raids by German planes were a daily fact of life.

Finally, Abrams brought his Star Wars veterans out, one by one: First Carrie Fisher, then Mark Hamill, and finally Harrison Ford, apparently well - rested and recovered from the plane crash he was involved in back in March.

His rigorous conditioning and perseverance as a track star, as well as his childhood of being bullied and ridiculed by his peers for being Italian, gave him the fortitude to go the distance during his days in World War II as an Air Force bombardier whose plane is shot down, forcing him and fellow soldiers to have to survive in a life raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for weeks.

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces this epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived on a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII — only to be caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

Christensen, of course, has gone from playing a young Darth Vader for «Star Wars» creator George Lucas, to starring in Doug Liman's disappointing sci - fi film «Jumper,» to now the cinematic equivalent of hitting rock bottom by working with David R. Ellis, the director of the infamous B - movie «Snakes on a Plane.»

Its first effort, the C8 Spyder, was something of a rich Dutchman's Dodge Viper — a rough - edged brute of a sports car with an interior inspired by World War I fighter planes.

According to Great American Cars of the 50s by Richard M. Langworth and Chris Poole, «VentiPorts» were inspired by World War II fighter planes, such as the P - 51 Mustang.

Inspired by female explorers like Mary Kingsley, who explored Gabon's jungle in the 1890s, and Karen Blixen, who ran a farm in Kenya during World War I, Sovich packed her bags and hopped on the next plane to Africa in search of adventure.

Needless to say, it will be a whole new plane that the tablet war will reach by then and thereafter.

Time editor Chua - Eoan looked after me from a bench along the side of the plane; a Critical Care Air Transport Team — the fully - equipped airborne ICUs deployed for the first time in war to keep soldiers alive until they reached hospitals — stood by to monitor my heart rate.

Coinciding with its release today, EA has debuted a launch trailer for Battlefield 1, the new World War I - set first - person shooter from DICE; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Watch Battlefield 1's single player prologue in 12 minute gameplay video You look into the distance and see planes torn apart by gunfire, their debris raining -LSB-...]

Night Witches is by the very same publisher, and casts players as members of a real - life second world war Soviet bomber regiment made up of women flying outmoded planes.

Well, it was a late - 2001 game about planes flying around tall buildings, so it suffered the fate that the original Advance Wars avoided by a day: a world that just wasn't ready to have fun with that setting.

Directed by Angelina Jolie, Unbroken is a harrowing tale of Olympian Louis Zamperini whom survived a near - fatal plane crash in WWII and was then caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

By placing the Soviet plane in the setting of an empty sky, devoid of potential targets, the artist highlights our cultural tendency to fetishize objects of war, while simultaneously neutering representations of violence — a practice that is particularly manifest in the content of mass - market video games.

He interrupted his art career by enlisting in the Air Force in World War II, serving in the Pacific repairing the ultra-secret Norden bombsight for Boeing B - 24 planes for the entirety of the wWar II, serving in the Pacific repairing the ultra-secret Norden bombsight for Boeing B - 24 planes for the entirety of the warwar.

The public opening of the exhibit in the World War II Gallery represents more than a dozen years and 55,000 hours of fastidious work by staffers and volunteers to renew one of most celebrated planes of the wWar II Gallery represents more than a dozen years and 55,000 hours of fastidious work by staffers and volunteers to renew one of most celebrated planes of the warwar.

He was greatly informed by a Korean shamanist tradition, which is something that he shared with Joseph Beuys, whose plane got shot down during the second world war in the Crimea.

It's not long before we're plunged headlong into war: trenches illuminated by exploding shells, downed planes on fire and a never ending sea of broken chunks of fighter jets in a plane graveyard.

It features some of Beuys's seminal pieces, including the felt suit and fat - laden sled that referred to his creation myth as an artist (being rescued by Tartars when his plane was shot down during the Second World War).

Der Spiegel reports that a recently discovered letter raises further questions about the war record of Joseph Beuys, who once claimed that after his plane was shot down over the Crimea during World War II he was rescued by Tartars, who wrapped his body in fat to help nurse him back to healwar record of Joseph Beuys, who once claimed that after his plane was shot down over the Crimea during World War II he was rescued by Tartars, who wrapped his body in fat to help nurse him back to healWar II he was rescued by Tartars, who wrapped his body in fat to help nurse him back to health.

Artist Statement «This drawing by a 10 - year - old Syrian boy, of life before, during and after the war, shows a plane drops bombs on his house.»

This, now legendary, painting, condemning the ruinous bombing by fascist planes of the Basque town, travelled to Britain to raise support for the republican forces in the Spanish Civil War.

And as our plane landed in Vancouver, we heard 500 Sri Lankan refugees also landed in Canada by boat, escaping discrimination, terror, war, and poverty; wanting just a portion of the life we Canadians take for granted.

Historically, residents of Midwest City have contributed much to the U.S. Airforce and the safety of our country; nearby factories staffed by citizens of Midwest City produced more than half of the C - 47 cargo planes used in World War II.

He says Americans were eager to embrace a «modernistic» design because they were inspired by the functional, unsentimental designs of modern armored tanks and jet fighter planes that helped win the war.