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Frontal assault or frontal attack: an attack toward the front of an enemy force. Garrison: a body of troops holding a particular location on a long-term basis. Ground zero; Guerrilla tactics: attacking the enemy and the subsequent breaking off of contact and retreating; also referred to as "hit-and-run tactics". Hit-and-run
The Attack on Taranto: Blueprint for Pearl Harbor. Stackpole Books (1995) ISBN 0-8117-1726-7; O'Connor, Christopher Patrick Taranto: The Raid, The Observer, The Aftermath. Dog Ear Publishing (2010) ISBN 978-160844-721-3; Konstam, Angus Taranto 1940; The Fleet Air Arm's precursor to Pearl Harbor. Osprey Campaign Series #288.
The Amiriyah shelter bombing [N 1] was an aerial bombing attack that killed at least 408 civilians on 13 February 1991 during the Gulf War, when an air-raid shelter ("Public Shelter No. 25") in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, was destroyed by the U.S. Air Force with two GBU-27 Paveway III laser-guided "smart bombs".
Royal Air Force Losses of the Second World War: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1942–1943. Vol. II. London: Midland. ISBN 1-85780-075-3. Gilbert, Val. A Display of Lights (9): The Lives and Puzzles of the Telegraph's Six Greatest Cryptic Crossword Setters. London: Macmillan (Telegraph Group Limited), 2008. ISBN 978-0-230-71446-5.
A comparison of the Guernica figures with the figures of dead resulting from air attacks on major European cities during the Second World War exposed an anomaly. James Corum uses the figure of forty tons of bombs dropped on Guernica, and calculates that if the figure of 1654 dead is accepted as accurate, then the raid caused 41 fatalities per ...
Aerial warfare is the use of military aircraft and other flying machines in warfare.Aerial warfare includes bombers attacking enemy installations or a concentration of enemy troops or strategic targets; fighter aircraft battling for control of airspace; attack aircraft engaging in close air support against ground targets; naval aviation flying against sea and nearby land targets; gliders ...
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In a letter dated 13 July 1976, the Supreme Commander's Staff of the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces praised the Israeli commandos for the mission and extended condolences for "the loss and martyrdom" of Netanyahu. [108] F-BVGG, the aircraft in the hijacking of Air France Flight 139, was repaired and returned to service with Air France. [109]