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During the airborne phase of the Normandy invasion on the night of 5 – 6 June 1944, British 6th Airborne Division captured all its key objectives in advance of the seaborne assault, including the capture and holding at all costs of a vital bridge over the Caen Canal, near Ouistreham.
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During the Ecuadorian – Peruvian War, the Peruvian army had also established its own paratrooper unit and used it to great effect by seizing the Ecuadorian port city of Puerto Bolívar, on July 27, 1941, marking the first time in the Americas that airborne troops were use in combat.
During the debate, the contribution of British airborne forces in the Far Eastern theatres was perhaps underplayed, to the long term detriment of the argument.
During large airborne operations, heavy equipment is dropped just prior to personnel and it is possible to combine loads on the same aircraft.
During the invasion of the Netherlands, the Germans threw into battle almost their entire Luftlandekorps, an airborne assault army corps that consisted of one parachute division and one division of airlanding troops plus the necessary transport capacity.
During the Ecuadorian – Peruvian War, the Peruvian army established its own paratrooper unit and used it to great effect by seizing the Ecuadorian port city of Puerto Bolívar, on July 27, 1941, marking the first time in the Americas that airborne troops were used in combat.
During the Cold War, a general and various support personnel from the base were airborne 24-hours a day on an EC-135 from February 3, 1961 to July 24, 1990 in Operation Looking Glass, creating an airborne command post in case of war.
During this period she provided air power presence and airborne intelligence support ( the airwing flew over 900 sorties over Iraq ) to the Combined Joint Task Forces of Operation Provide Comfort and Operation Northern Watch enforcing the northern " no-fly zone " in Iraq.
During the next six months, about 60 Guardsmen were rotated through the latter installation on 30 to 60 day tours in Operation " Commando Buzz ," Their aircraft served as flying radar stations and airborne control platforms for U. S. air operations in SEA until January 1971.
During the Second World War, he volunteered to work on Aviation Medicine at Farnborough and was subsequently transferred to the Telecommunications Research Establishment ( TRE ) where he worked on the development of centimetric radar, including the design of the Village Inn AGLT airborne gun-laying system.
During World War II, Operation Begonia was the airborne counterpart to the amphibious Operation Jonquil, conducted by British SAS and Eighth Army Airborne between Ancona and Pescara, Italy, from 2-6 October, 1943.
During World War II, Operation Keystone was a Special Air Service patrol consisting of a number of jeep-mounted and airborne teams that operated south of IJsselmeer in the central Netherlands in early April, 1945.
During this period, the activities of the division were primarily based around airborne training, as well as taking part in several training exercises.
During this training process, the division took part in several training exercises, including the Knollwood Maneuver, in which it played a vital part in ensuring that the airborne division remained as a military formation in the United States Army after the poor performance of American airborne forces in Sicily.
During the iron and steel era a pall of ' red dust ' hung over the town ; airborne iron oxide from the steel-making plant.
During the early 1960s, Keesler lost many of its airborne training courses but Keesler still remained the largest training base throughout the 1970s.
* During Operation Market-Garden, the drive into the Netherlands in September 1944, a complete operations order with maps and graphics for the airborne phase of the invasion, which was not supposed to be brought with the invading troops, was inadvertently left behind on a transport glider.
During World War II, the pathfinders were a group of volunteers selected within the Airborne units who were specially trained to operate navigation aids to guide the main airborne body to the drop zones.
During the Allied landings in North Africa British airborne units landed in Tunisia.
During airborne operations, when large numbers of airborne parachutists were moved to the airfield, tents would be pitched on the interior grass regions of the airfield, or wherever space could be found to accommodate the airborne forces for the short time they would be bivouacked at the station prior to the operation.
During World War II, the German Air Force ( Luftwaffe ) raised a variety of airborne light infantry ( Fallschirmjäger ) units.
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During this stretch, the Orioles began to phase out their veteran infield by replacing Davey Johnson and Brooks Robinson with younger stars Bobby Grich and Doug DeCinces, respectively.
During the more radical phase of the Revolution from 1793 to 1794, the usage and depiction of Hercules changed.
During the Uruk phase, colonists and traders from Southern Iraq established important quarters in settlements throughout the northern part of the Levantine region ( e. g. Amuq ).
During the first phase of whaling the hauls were generally good, some exceptional.
During the second phase the hauls were much lower.
During the scientific research phase of his career, he tried to answer the question of whether man had a hidden aquatic potential that could be evoked by rigorous physiological and psychological training.
During phase transitions, the heat flow required to maintain this heating or cooling rate will change.
During their nomadic phase, the Lombards created little in the way of art that was not easily carried with them, like arms and jewellery.
During the Mississippian subperiod an important phase of orogeny occurred in the Appalachian Mountains.
During the launch phase of the mission, the Mercury spacecraft and astronaut were protected from launch vehicle failures by the Launch Escape System.
During the AGB phase, the star undergoes mass loss, emitting a circumstellar shell of hydrogen gas.
During the second phase two dikes were built parallel to each other, which took 2 years.
During the first phase, sprouts emerge from the seed potatoes and root growth begins.
* < div id =" drive knee "> Drive knee: During the plant phase, the knee is driven forward at the time of " takeoff " to help propel the vaulter upward .</ div >
During the development phase, 80 % of the 944's mechanical components were either significantly modified or completely replaced by the engineers, leaving so little of the outgoing S2 behind that Porsche management chose to introduce the variant as a new model, entitling it 968.
During the building phase Potsdamer Platz was the largest building site in Europe.
During the support phase, the foot is in contact with the ground and supports the body against gravity.
During the transitional phase of Sega dropping out of the console race to concentrate on software and game development, all of its main departments were separated from the main company and established on semi-autonomous subsidiaries.
During the next major phase of activity, 30 enormous Oligocene-Miocene sarsen stones ( shown grey on the plan ) were brought to the site.
During the Silicon Graphics Inc .' s second bankruptcy phase, it was renamed to Graphics Properties Holdings, Inc .( GPHI ) in June 2009.
During this early phase of history, the majority of Turkmenistan's inhabitants were either adherents of Zoroastrianism or Buddhism and the region was largely dominated by Iranian peoples.
During the canal ’ s planning phase, many small towns along the northern shores of Maumee River heavily competed to be the ending terminus of the canal knowing it would give them a profitable status.
During the 1940s, Onsager studied the statistical-mechanical theory of phase transitions in solids, deriving a mathematically elegant theory which was enthusiastically received.
During fractional crystallization, Sr tends to become concentrated in plagioclase, leaving Rb in the liquid phase.
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