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The famous Totentanz by Bernt Notke in Lübeck ’ s Marienkirche ( destroyed during the Allied Bombing of Lübeck in World War II ) presented the dead dancers as very lively and agile, making the impression that they were actually dancing, whereas their living dancing partners looked clumsy and passive.
Reflecting his displeasure with the German Legation in Belgrade, which had advised against pressuring Yugoslavia into signing the Tripartite Pact, when the Bombing of Belgrade took place on 6 April 1941, Ribbentrop refused to have the staff of the German Legation withdrawn in advance, who were thus left to survive the fire-bombing of Belgrade as best they could.
The US Strategic Bombing Survey later estimated that nearly 88, 000 people died in this one raid, 41, 000 were injured, and over a million residents lost their homes.
The 16 July 1992 Tarata Bombing, in which several car bombs exploded in Lima's wealthiest district, killed over 40 people ; the bombings were characterized by one commentator as an " offensive to challenge President Alberto Fujimori.
During 1940, Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) schools were established across Australia to support EATS in Initial Training, Elementary Flying Training, Service Flying Training, Air Navigation, Air Observer, Bombing and Gunnery and Wireless Air Gunnery.
A. C. Grayling in his book Among the Dead Cities makes the point that as the Area Bombing Directive issued to the RAF on 14 February 1942, focused on the " morale of the enemy civil population ", Lübeck, with its many timbered medieval buildings, was chosen because the RAF " Air Staff were eager to experiment with a bombing technique using a high proportion of incendiaries " to help them carry out the directive – the RAF were well aware that the technique was effective against cities and not against industrial targets because cities such as Coventry had been subject to such attacks by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz.
Bombing attacks were stepped up on northern Italy ( by aircraft based in the UK ) and Greece ( by aircraft based in the Middle East ).
Bombing from China was never a satisfactory arrangement because not only were the Chinese forward airbases difficult to supply via " The Hump " ( as the Himalayas ' foothills were called ), but the B-29s operating from them could only reach Japan if they substituted some of the bomb load for extra fuel tanks in the bomb-bays.
The exact chronology of the repression is still debated, however, as trade unionists were targeted for assassination by guerrillas as early as 1969, and individual cases of state-sponsored terrorism against Peronism and the left can be traced back at least to the Bombing of Plaza de Mayo in 1955.
Among the disturbances he investigated were the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing in San Francisco, where he argued strongly that the radical leader Thomas Mooney had been framed and required a new trial.
These squadrons were the 13th Light Bombing Squadron, with Avro Ansons, Bristol Blenheims and Martin Baltimores, and the 335 and 336 Fighting Squadrons, with Hawker Hurricane I and IIs and Spitfire V types.
Bombing attacks were carried out by the Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ) on Beersheba, Tell esh Sheria to the north west, and on the junction of the Beersheba and Jaffa – Jerusalem lines.
16 new DM maps, 5 new CTF Maps, 2 new Double Domination maps and 1 new Bombing Run map were added.
The Corr siblings were appointed honorary MBEs in 2005, in recognition of their music and charitable work which has raised money for the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, victims of the Omagh Bombing and other charities.
The Corr siblings were awarded honorary MBEs in 2005 by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of both their musical talent and their charitable work raising money for Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, victims of the Omagh Bombing, and other charities.
The Corr siblings were appointed as honorary MBEs in 2005 by Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, in recognition of their musical talents and also their charitable work which raised money for Freeman Hospital in Newcastle ( where their mother was treated ), victims of the Omagh Bombing, The Prince's Trust, and other charities.
A variety of BTV ( Ballistic Test Vehicle ) drops were carried out at various heights and speeds at the experimental Bombing Range on Orfordness.
They left Guadalcanal on October 12, 1942 and headed for Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California where they were redesignated yet again as Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 ( VMTB-232 ), flying newly acquired Grumman TBF Avengers.
The crowd greeted Awesome with jeers at the beginning of the match, but by the end — which Awesome won after Awesome Bombing Tanaka to the outside of the ring and through a table and following that up with a slingshot splash — were chanting " This match rules!
Sites 724-A, B, C and 725-A were all located on the Lowry Bombing Range.
On, April 12, 2007, Mohammed Awad, a political party member of the Iraqi National Dialogue Council, was killed at the convention centre canteen of the parliament building, and 22 were wounded, in the 2007 Iraqi Parliament Bombing.
Nine students believed to be linked to the Tarata Bombing — Bertila Lozano Torres, Dora Oyague Fierro, Luis Enrique Ortiz Perea, Armando Richard Amaro Cóndor, Robert Édgar Teodoro Espinoza, Heráclides Pablo Meza, Felipe Flores Chipana, Marcelino Rosales Cárdenas, and Juan Gabriel Mariños Figueroa — were separated from the others and taken away.

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* 1942 – World War II: Bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese.
Guernica is best known to those residing outside the Basque region as the scene of the April 26, 1937, Bombing of Guernica, one of the first aerial bombings by Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe.
On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica was the scene of the Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe.
* 1945 – The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces began, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
* 1944 – World War II: Bombing of Tokyo – The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.
The deliberate Bombing of Guernica by the German Condor Legion in April 1937 contributed to widespread concerns that the next major war would include extensive terror bombing attacks on civilians.
Bombing of Jaén, Spain by Nazi forces
His books of poetry include Poems 1913 and 1914 ( 1914 ); Poems Translated from the French ( 1914 ); Three Poems ( 1916 ); The Barn ( 1916 ); The Silver Bird of Herndyke Mill ; Stane Street ; The Gods of the World Beneath, ( 1916 ); The Harbingers ( 1916 ); Pastorals ( 1916 ); The Waggoner and Other Poems ( 1920 ); The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War ( 1922 ); Old Homes ( 1922 ); To Nature: New Poems ( 1923 ); Dead Letters ( 1923 ); Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative ( 1925 ); Japanese Garland ( 1928 ); Retreat ( 1928 ); Winter Nights: A Reminiscence ( 1928 ); Near and Far: New Poems ( 1929 ); A Summer's Fancy ( 1930 ); To Themis: Poems on Famous Trials ( 1931 ); Constantia and Francis: An Autumn Evening, ( 1931 ); Halfway House: A Miscellany of New Poems, ( 1932 ); Choice or Chance: New Poems ( 1934 ); Verses: To H. R. H. The Duke of Windsor, ( 1936 ); An Elegy and Other Poems ( 1937 ); On Several Occasions ( 1938 ); Poems, 1930-1940 ( 1940 ); Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ); After the Bombing, and Other Short Poems ( 1949 ); Eastward: A Selection of Verses Original and Translated ( 1950 ); Records of Friendship ( 1950 ); A Hong Kong House ( 1959 ); Poems on Japan ( 1967 ).
However, at a SHAEF press conference on 16 February 1945, two days after the Bombing of Dresden, British Air Commodore Colin McKay Grierson replied to a question by one of the journalists that the primary target of the bombing had been on communications to prevent the Germans from moving military supplies and to stop movement in all directions if possible.
This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles ( 56 km ) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, at the new White Sands Proving Ground, which incorporated the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range.
* Photographs and writings pertaining to the 2002 Bali Bombings — by an expatriate Bali Bombing Resource
The attack known as the 2002 Bali Bombing is the most deadly attack executed by JI to date.
The change can be linked to the nationalist fervour generated by Saunders Lewis and the burning of the Bombing School on the Lleyn Peninsula in 1936, along with a sense of crisis generated by World War II.
* The novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer contains narrative threads dealing with the Bombing of Dresden.
Established as a area by president Harry Truman on December 18, 1950 within the Nellis Air Force Gunnery and Bombing Range
According to a report conducted by the ICTY entitled Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia opined that, " Insofar as the attack actually was aimed at disrupting the communications network, it was legally acceptable " and that, " NATO ’ s targeting of the RTS building for propaganda purposes was an incidental ( albeit complementary ) aim of its primary goal of disabling the Serbian military command and control system and to destroy the nerve system and apparatus that keeps Milosević in power.
The work was written in Dresden, where Shostakovich was to write music for the film Five Days, Five Nights, a joint project by Soviet and East German filmmakers about Bombing of Dresden in World War II.
In 2005, a book about the Graham case was published on the fiftieth anniversary of the bombing: Mainliner Denver: The Bombing of Flight 629 by Andrew J.

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* Text, audio, and video of President Clinton's Oklahoma Bombing Memorial address
On July 16, 1945, he was among the dignitaries present at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range for the Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of an atomic bomb, and was part of the Interim Committee that advised President Harry S. Truman to use atomic bombs on Japan.
From 1944 to 1946, Nitze served as director and then as Vice Chairman of the Strategic Bombing Survey for which President Harry S. Truman awarded him the Legion of Merit.
* Operation Cyanide: Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III, ( 2003 ) suggesting that USS Liberty attack by Israel, with the connivance of President Johnson ( USA ), was to be blamed on Egypt, to justify attacking that country.
* The " Christmas Bombing " of North Vietnam halted by order of U. S. President Nixon, after the North Vietnamese agreed to resume negotiations with Henry Kissinger beginning on January 8.
On 18 December 1972, during Operation Linebacker II ( also known as President Richard Nixon's, " Christmas Bombing "), USAF B-52 Stratofortresses of the Strategic Air Command conducted a maximum effort bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

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