On 8 July, Auchinleck ordered the new XXX Corps commander — Lieutenant-General William Ramsden — to capture the low ridges at Tel el Eisa and Tel el Makh Khad and then to push mobile battle groups south toward Deir el Shein and raiding parties west toward the airfields at El Daba.

On April 14, 1979, the Afghan government requested that the USSR send 15 to 20 helicopters with their crews to Afghanistan, and on June 16, the Soviet government responded and sent a detachment of tanks, BMPs, and crews to guard the government in Kabul and to secure the Bagram and Shindand airfields.

* Three movies have been filmed in part at Eglin Air Force Base or its outlying auxiliary airfields, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo in 1944, Twelve O ' Clock High in 1949, and On the Threshold of Space in 1955.

On 15 April 1961, at about 06: 00 Cuba local time, eight Douglas B-26B Invader bombers in three groups simultaneously attacked three Cuban airfields at San Antonio de los Baños and at Ciudad Libertad ( formerly named Campo Columbia ), both near Havana, plus the Antonio Maceo International Airport at Santiago de Cuba.

On 15 of June, 67 CR. 42s from same units, plus 18 ° Gruppo ( from 3 ° Stormo ), attacked the airfields of Southern France.

On the 14th, a U. S. carrier task force went on alert, and the Second Airborne Brigade stood by to seize selected Laotian airfields.

On 9 September two more squadrons, the Hurricanes of No 302 ( Polish ) and the Spitfires of No. 611 Squadron, were allocated to the " Big Wing " and again Park requested protection of the 11 Group airfields.

On 26 February, the 24th Division advanced through the valley and captured Iraqi airfields at Jabbah and Tallil.

On 1 January, the entire German fighter force took off and attacked 27 Allied airfields in northern France, Belgium and the southern part of the Netherlands in an attempt by the Luftwaffe to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries of Europe.

On 7 April, Eighth Air Force dispatched thirty-two B-17 and B-24 groups and fourteen Mustang groups ( the sheer numbers of attacking Allied aircraft were so large in 1945 that they were now counted by the group ) to targets in the small area of Germany still controlled by the Nazis, hitting the remaining airfields where the Luftwaffe jets were stationed.

On 29 June, clearance was given for B-29 attacks on airfields in North Korea.

On that day, Richthofen sent his units against airfields in southern England.

On May 20, 1941, German paratroopers were dropped over the airfields of northern Crete to occupy the island.

On the first day, 55 Italian bombers and 21 fighters flew over Malta and dropped 142 bombs on the three airfields at Luqa, Hal Far and Ta Qali.

On 18 January, the Germans switched to attacking the airfields at Hal Far and Luqa in an attempt to win air superiority before returning to Illustrious.

On aircraft carriers, as well as military and some civilian airfields, sweeps are conducted before flight operations begin.

On 12 April 1941, six No. 303 Spitfires led by S / L Henneberg carried out a series of strafing attacks on German airfields.

On 13 August, airborne forces under the command of First Allied Airborne Army were moved to airfields in Northern France in readiness to participate in Operation Transfigure, whose objective was to block the retreat of these German forces.

On 22 May 1944, 500th SS Parachute Battalion were transported to airfields at Nagy-Betskerek, Zagreb and Banja Luka, dressed in Wehrmacht uniforms for security reasons.

On the nearby Treasury and Shortland Islands they built airfields, naval bases and anchorages.

On 29 June, clearance was given for B-29 attacks on airfields in North Korea.

On 22 June 1929 a famous aviation barnstormer named Alan Cobham went to Perton trying persuade local dignitaries that they should all have their own local airfields by making speeches and taking the mayors and officials of Walsall, Wednesubry, Wolverhampton, and Stourbridge for flights in his DH-61 Flying Moth ( a ten seater enclosed cabin aeroplane ).

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

On these posts the gates swung open with a squeak and shut with a metallic clang.

Calhoun dealt with this question in his `` Disquisition On Government ''.

On the eve of his return to their native Naxos he speaks with his wife of the masterpiece which rises before them in its completed perfection.

On Sundays, with the permission of Captain Heard, who usually attended with two of his officers, services were held in the double cabin.

On arrival at headquarters he had, however -- in King Stanislas' words to Glayre -- `` found such favor with Pe Potemkin that he made him his aide-de-camp and up to now does not want him to go join Paul Jones.

On the morning of November 17th, Cornwallis and 2,000 men had left Philadelphia with the object of capturing Fort Mercer at Red Bank, New Jersey.

On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.

On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

On the contrary, the frenzy and furor of combat is only the sombre foil against which the sudden illuminations of the human flash forth with the piercing radiance of a Caravaggio.

On their right rose the embankment covered with brush and trees.

On the other side of the church was a quiet, well-kept house with shutters and recently painted.

On Sundays he would walk miles into the campagna to visit with them, and in particular to see their horses.

On the east side of the island of Manhattan the indifferent hawk knew the East River that connected New York Bay with Long Island Sound.

On ships at sea, on railroad trains, in summer hotels with mountain views, they always said, `` I've never done this before ''.

On the other hand, it is no interference with sovereignty to point out defects where they exist, such as that a plan calls for factories without power to run them, or for institutions without trained personnel to staff them.

On September 16, Sam Rayburn will have served as Speaker twice as long as any predecessor and I am proud to join with others in marking this date, and in expressing my esteem for that notable American, Sam Rayburn.

On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.

Held: On the record in this case, the administrative procedures prescribed by the Act were fully complied with ; ;

On the remainder of the clear channels, the dominant ( class 1 ) -- B stations are protected as described above, and the relatively small number of secondary ( class 2 ) ) stations permitted to operate on these channels at night are required to operate directionally and/or with reduced power so as to protect the class 1, stations.

On the basis of what they give us we can know how the young Caruso sang, appreciate the distinctive qualities of Parsifal under Karl Muck's baton, or sense the type of ensemble Toscanini created in his years with the New York Philharmonic.