Sentences with phrase «during air raids»

As a child, he and his family hid in the basement during air raids where he could hear and feel the explosions and bombings but had to resort to his imagination to visualize them.

He or she will launch blitzkriegs by pinning down ground forces with his or her own before sending in bombers for the coup de grâce; command infantry to guard extensive supply lines; and withdraw vulnerable units underground during air raids.

Battlefield sequences look a bit generically set, likewise routine sequences of Britain's denizens flowing underground during air raids.

Article 316 bis fourth: Theft crimes that take place during air raids shall be punished for by imprisonment.

When one of the Nazis, hit by a falling beam during an air raid, was listed as killed, again there was applause.

A great mini play set in 1940 that tells the story of one family's experiences during an air raid in a fictional town.

During an air raid, 16 year old Noah and his little sister Renie seek shelter in a bunker.

In 1941, the Lecture Hall and Library building suffered significant damage during an air raid and was later demolished.

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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.

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.

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.

«Days later, a female serving Nigerian Air Force officer reported that her relative whom she identified as Mr. Andrew Anthony, a pastor of a church was killed during the raid and that he was not a militant.

German scientist Ernst Stromer collected the first fossils of the animal in 1912 in Egypt, but the bones were destroyed during World War II when the Munich museum housing them was flattened in an air raid.

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.

As a child, Lotte may not have been fully aware of the dangers and struggles around her, but her memories of rationing, evacuation to Herefordshire and the Home Counties, barrage balloons, blackouts, air raid sirens and bunkers give an incredible insight into life during wartime Britain.

Between 1940 and 1945, the city was the target of 363 air raids, with an estimated 20,000 civilians killed during the period.

Thirty years later, Elspeth disappears after a nightly air raid during WWII, and the newly discovered letters become her daughter's only clue to finding her.

During the Closed Beta, players will experience the first level of the progression system as they compete in races across all first four disciplines — Street Race, Rally Raid, Powerboat and Aerobatics — against the backdrop of a fully redesigned U.S.A via land, water and air.

London's Kensington Gardens, where Wylie recalls seeing dogfights in the sky as a child during the Blitz (the artist's older brothers taught her to recognize different aircraft), are the subject of Park Dogs & Air Raid, a new four - canvas painting created specifically for the Serpentine exhibition.

Brandt followed crowds during the nightly air raids and produced eerily beautiful images of the makeshift bomb shelters and the people who fled to them.

In Allora & Calzadilla's video Raptor's Rapture (2012), installed in the Weinberg Bunker (which housed up to 10,000 civilians during war - time air raids), a musician, specializing in prehistoric instruments, tries to serenade a griffon vulture with a 35,000 - year - old flute made from the wing bone of that same species.

In the large, recent work Park Dogs and Air Raid (2017), based on a childhood memory of watching British Spitfires and Nazi Messerschmitts slug it out during the Blitz in 1940, planes zap each other with explosive cartoon flashes while, on the ground below, ducks dabble in the lake in front of the Sackler Gallery.

During World War II, her mother was an air - raid warden and worked in a factory during the day, wiring submarine During World War II, her mother was an air - raid warden and worked in a factory during the day, wiring submarine during the day, wiring submarine parts.

Margaret Bourke - White Night view of Allied anti-aircraft tracer bullets during German air raid, Algiers, Algeria, 1943 Gelatin silver print; printed c. 1943 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches

Recent canvases (now on view at Jack Shainman Gallery's The School in Kinderhook, New York) embedded with acoustic foam respond to research into violent sounds, such as the air raid siren she heard as a child during the Gulf War; while others adopt poses from a U.S. military pamphlet filled with pictograms around scenarios involving hostages, smuggling, and weapon identification.

The journey through is visceral and disorienting — an experience that can surely only approximate the uncertainty and anxiety that must have been rife in these same rooms during air - raid blackouts over half a century ago.