Providing armour support for the initial wave of assault troops was a critical concern for Sea Lion planners and much effort was devoted to finding practical ways of rapidly getting tanks onto the invasion beaches.

After initial successes the Japanese assault on Mongolia was checked by the Red Army that inflicted the first major defeat on the Japanese Kwantung Army.

US and Afghan sources believe at least 200 Taliban and Al Qaida fighters were killed during the initial assault and subsequent rescue mission.

Calrissian's ground defenses, as well as his newly-created shielding technologies, help save Dubrillion from the initial assault.

Preceded by a concentrated bombardment lasting 35 minutes, the initial assault made rapid progress and the village was captured within four hours.

It was a daylight assault, with little initial opposition, and most units achieved high accuracy on drop and landing zones.

With an initial target date of 1 May 1944, the infantry attack was conceived as a joint assault by five divisions transported by landing craft, constituting the largest amphibious operation in military history.

The initial assault waves, consisting of tanks, infantry, and combat engineer forces, were carefully planned to reduce the coastal defenses and allow the larger ships of the follow-up waves to land.

The initial assault was to be made by two Regimental Combat Teams ( RCT ), supported by two tank battalions, with two battalions of Rangers also attached.

A landing craft of the initial assault wave nears the smoke-shrouded coast following a heavy naval bombardment.

With the initial targets unaccomplished, the second and larger wave of assault landings brought in reinforcements, support weapons and headquarter elements at 07: 00 only to face nearly the same difficulties as had the first.

The key geographical features that had influenced the landings also influenced the next phase of the battle: the draws, the natural exits off the beaches, were the main targets in the initial assault plan.

The German defensive strategy was to operate a front line defence of sufficient strength to defend against an initial assault and move operational reserves forward before the enemy could consolidate their gains or overrun remaining German positions.

As the Canadian assault advanced, it overran many of the German guns because there was no means of moving them to the rear on account of many of the horses being killed in the initial gas attack.

He is also impatient to fight the Slayer upon his initial arrival in Sunnydale ; the attack is supposed to coincide with the Night of St. Vigeous ( when a vampire's natural abilities are enhanced ), but he " couldn't wait " to go after the Slayer and recklessly leads a mass assault against Buffy at Sunnydale High, which fails and results in the deaths of many Aurelian vampires.

On September 5, 1972, the Palestinian terrorist movement Black September infiltrated the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, to kidnap 11 Israeli athletes, killing two in the Olympic Village in the initial assault on the athletes ' rooms.

As the army was being defeated and giving up ground in the initial assault, a gigantic operation was staged to move economic capacity from the Western areas that were about to be overrun, to Eastern regions in the Urals and central Asia that were out of reach of the Germans.

Ed remembers that the hillbilly who tried to assault him had no front teeth, and upon initial examination, the dead man seems to have all of them.

Nevertheless, the aid received enabled the liberals to overcome the conservatives ' initial military advantage ; Juárez's government successfully defended Veracruz from assault twice during 1860 and recaptured Mexico City on 1 January 1861.

This was even more pronounced in the variant Seeding Swarm army list published in White Dwarf and later in Chapter Approved, which represented the initial stages of a massive Tyranid assault and even further emphasized the use of many expendable, ' cannon-fodder ' type units.

The terrorists were reportedly all shot to death while unconscious by the police during the first wave of assault on the building, which was evidenced by gunshot wounds in their heads, seen in initial unedited footage of the crisis.

For the initial assault at Bourlon three divisions of Gruppe Arras under Otto von Moser were assigned.

Despite initial successes, in 1259, a Mongol force under Boroldai entered Galicia and Volhynia and offered an ultimatum: Danylo was to destroy his fortifications or Boroldai would assault the towns.

The guns were carefully concealed, often in nearby olive groves, and some were ordered to hold their fire during the initial assault so that they would not immediately reveal their positions to German fighters and dive-bombers.

The initial Russian assault was to be received by the British Second Division, 2, 700 men and 12 guns.

The initial formation of the volunteer SS Estonian legion created in 1942 was eventually expanded to become a full-sized conscript division of the Waffen-SS in 1944, the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS ( 1st Estonian ).

However, two days after Hird's initial comments, he announced that he had changed his mind due to the intense division and speculation over Matthew Knights's future following Hird's initial comments.

This conflict dates back as far as the initial thrust of Islam into Europe, its eventual expulsion in the Iberian reconquest, the attacks of the Ottoman Turks on Eastern Europe and Vienna, and the European imperial division of the Islamic nations in the 1800s and 1900s.

During this time, however, the court was divided 4-4 following the initial conference call because Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, one of the three liberal justices who continuously voted to uphold New Deal legislation, was absent due to an illness ; with this even division on the Court, the holding of the Washington Supreme Court, finding the minimum wage statute constitutional, would stand.

At Waterloo, Jérôme's division was to make an initial attack on Hougoumont, which Napoleon expected would draw in Wellington's reserves, however Jérôme misunderstood the nature of his role and his division became completely engaged attempting to take Hougoumont outright.

" After the initial rush of Volksdeutsche to join, voluntary enlistments tapered off, and the new unit did not reach division size.

Also, whenever the number of contestants is uneven in formation of tribes ( in initial division or switching, but not merging ), the single-outed contestant will be treated as " tribeless " and sent to Exile Island immediately after formation ( as in Survivor: Panama, Survivor: Fiji, and Survivor: Gabon ).

For its initial summer 1957 run, the show was hosted by Win Barron, best known for his voice-over narration of newsreels produced by the Canadian division of Paramount Pictures.

The differences arise from which great circle is object of the initial division and whether the divisions represent units of time, or degrees of distance.

Even though Serbia at the beginning was part of a united alliance of Balkan powers against the Ottomans the initial victory led to squabbles about the division of the spoils and in the second of the two wars it was Bulgaria who was Serbia's main enemy.

In mid-September 1943, nine days after the initial Allied landings, he led the division ashore at Salerno on the Italian mainland, where it fought its way up the peninsula.

At a meeting for investors and analysts in August 2004, a plan was outlined to divest the KBR division through a possible sale, spin-off or initial public offering.

Hill was also absent from his division, and there is no record of where he was during the battle ; this led to a rumor spread through the lines that he had been captured during the initial Union assault.

Starting with Lucien Tesnière 1959, dependency grammars challenge the validity of the initial binary division of the clause into subject ( NP ) and predicate ( VP ), which means they reject the notion that the second half of this binary division, i. e. the finite VP, is a constituent.

As a consequence, initial combat encounters by the 24th Infantry division and other Army units at the Battle of Osan with North Korean armored spearheads proved disastrous.

Before Gleason's initial three-year contract with CBS expired, he was offered a much larger one by CBS and General Motors ' Buick division ( the carmaker having dropped their sponsorship of Milton Berle's Buick-Berle Show after two seasons on NBC ).

Although initial reports blamed the company and claimed four Afghans were killed in the accident, Sayed Abdul Ghaffar, the head of the Kabul police criminal investigations division, told The New York Times that the Afghan driver had caused the accident and said only one Afghan died in the wreck.

A small Bulgarian unit, which soon became a full division moved into the city and immediately started an attempt to establish a condominium in spite of initial assurances to the contrary, showing no intentions to leave.

Although no armored divisions were sent because the initial response from battlefield commanders was " Korea isn't good tank country ", six army infantry divisions and one marine division were deployed.

There was an initial inconclusive clash during which the French got the better of the van division of the British fleet that had become separated from the centre and rear divisions.

Only rudimentary initial training was undertaken before elements of the division began the embarkation process in May and June 1916 as they were moved to the United Kingdom, where the individual sub units concentrated for the first time, received arms and other equipment and began the task of undertaking further training at Lark Hill, on Salisbury Plain.