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Nationalist and side
The object of Li's strategy was to maintain a foothold on the Chinese mainland in the hope that the United States would eventually be compelled to enter the war in China on the Nationalist side.
They are held in high esteem by the Beijing government because they fought on the side of the CPC against Chinese Nationalist rule during the Chinese Civil War.
He managed to desert to the Nationalist side during the Battle of the Ebro in September 1938.
However, he was equally ill-treated by the Nationalist side, disliking their fascist influences and being struck and imprisoned by his colonel upon Pujol's expressing sympathy with the monarchy.
The black crosses on the tails are Saint Andrew's Cross, the insignia of the Spanish Nationalist Air Force ( Franco side ).
The Irish Nationalist MP Tim Healy wrote to Bright, wishing him a speedy recovery and " Your great services to our people can never be forgotten, for it was when Ireland had fewest friends that your voice was loudest on her side.
Staffel Jagdgruppe 88 ( J / 88 — 88th Fighter Group ), which was sent to support the Nationalist side under Franco at Ferrol from mid-1937.
The ensuing Battle of Teruel will last until February 22, 1938, and involve 120 fighters, 80 bombers, and 100 other aircraft on the Republican side and 150 fighters, 100 bombers, and 110 other aircraft on the Nationalist side.
With the July 1936 revolt and the ensuing Spanish Civil War, the Carlists fell naturally if uneasily on the side of the Nationalist rebels.
During the war, the Nationalist government repressed Republican militants and sympathizers, as retaliation for the repression of clergy and Nationalist militants on the opposite side.
In spite of the victory of their side, General Franco frustrated the pretensions of the Carlist monarchism ; he subsumed their militias into the Nationalist army and their political party ( Comunión Tradicionalista ) into his National Movement ( Falange Tradicionalista y de las J. O. N. S.
Their superior performance will allow the Republican side to gain air superiority over Nationalist forces.
* February 12 – Spanish Nationalist forces have 600 aircraft, compared to only 40 available on the Republican side.
The conflict that started between the Second Spanish Republic and Francisco Franco's National Sindicalists soon involved Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on the Spanish Nationalist side and the Soviet Union help on the Spanish Republic's side.
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the first unit remained under Republican command, while the second took the side of the Nationalist rebels.
On the Nationalist side Unity equalled the Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) with four seats in 1973 although this had declined to two seats in 1977.
Some 550 first class planes were available on the Nationalist side against only some 35 modern fighters and some 40 second class aircraft of the Spanish Republican Air Force.
After Nationalist forces led by General Emilio Mola's forces took the town three days later, the Nationalist side claimed that no effort to establish an accurate number have been made by the opposite side.
On the Spanish side, threats made prior to the raid by General Emilio Mola to " end the war in the North of Spain quickly " and threats apparently made against Republicans in Bilbao afterward implied a blunting of strategy and that air raids were effective and set to become an increasingly favorite instrument in the Nationalist war effort.

Nationalist and conducted
Zhou participated in two military operations conducted by the Nationalist regime in 1925, later known as the first and second Eastern Expeditions.
Recently, the Macheteros have focused on public education regarding the use of Culebra and Vieques as bombing targets for the U. S. Navy ; the disproportionate number of military bases on the island ( compared to states in the Union ); the proportion of deaths within the ranks of the Independence and Nationalist leadership, including the alleged experimentation with radiation on Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos while he was incarcerated ; the secret testing of Agent Orange on Puerto Rican soil ; and cancer " experiments " administered by Cornelius P. Rhoads, in which he admitted killing Puerto Rican patients and injecting cancer cells to others, working as part of a medical investigation conducted in San Juan's Presbyterian Hospital for the Rockefeller Institute.
On January 17, 1987 a group of ninety demonstrators conducted a " March Against Fear and Intimidation " in Cumming, Forsyth County, Georgia that was met by as many as three hundred counter-protesters including the Forsyth County Defense League ( an independent affiliate of The Nationalist Movement, which advocates the expulsion of all non-whites from the United States ) and the Ku Klux Klan.

Nationalist and aerial
* April 20 – A new Nationalist advance begins in Vizcaya province in northern Spain, supported by a preliminary aerial bombardment.
* June 11 – An aerial bombardment by German aircraft of the Condor Legion and Italian aircraft precedes a renewed Nationalist offensive against the Basque defensive perimeter around Bilbao, Spain.
The Nationalist aerial bombardment will overwhelm the defenders of Santander, which will fall to the Nationalists on August 26.
Heavy aerial bombardment from 200 Nationalist, German and Italian planes was used far behind Basque lines in August 1937, leading to the fall of Santander after the Battle of Santander on 1 September.
* The Imperial Japanese Navys air arm begins Operation 101, the largest aerial offensive of the Second Sino-Japanese War to date, seeking to destroy Nationalist Chinese air capabilities in Szechuan Province and military facilities around Chungking.
* September 13 – The Imperial Japanese Navys Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter scores its first aerial victories, when a flight of Zeroes attacks 27 Nationalist Chinese fighters over Chungking and claims to have destroyed all of them ; actual Chinese losses probably are 13 to 24 aircraft.
Spanish Nationalists | Nationalist aircraft bomb Madrid in 1936 ; the conflict saw the first modern aerial warfare against urban areas.
At the time, it possessed only earth surface for small biplanes to take off and touch down, where the Nationalist Chinese Air Force Polikarpov I-15 fighters of the 5th Pursuit Group were based for aerial defense of the Chengdu area against Japanese bomber raids ; this following the Chinese retreat from Wuhan to Chongqing as the new provisional capital in face of the Imperial Japanese onslaught.

Nationalist and bombing
* March 22 – Spanish Nationalist leader Francisco Franco orders his National Aviation ( Aviación Nacional ) force to begin a bombing campaign against the Basques in northern Spain.
The damage shocks Spanish Nationalist military leaders, and the Condor Legion engages in no further area bombing during the Spanish Civil War.
The continued Nationalist offensive on Aragon in April – June 1937, including the Battle of Belchite, involved bombing raids and the use of the Legion's ground forces.
Close air support for Nationalist troops, attack bombing of Republican troop concentrations, and strafing became features of the war.
* September 6 – Italian aircraft arriving in Majorca establish a Nationalist bombing capability against Republican Spain.
On the same day, Nationalist forces begin a heavy bombing campaign against Madrid.
* Early January – Nationalist aircraft conduct a heavy bombing campaign against Barcelona, Spain.
It was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country village in northern Spain by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces, on 26 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso's purpose in painting it was to bring the world's attention to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by German bombers, who were supporting the Nationalist forces of General Franco during the Spanish Civil War.
Murfin estimated that 41 % fled the area in fear of Viet Cong reprisals, 37 % feared fighting, shelling, and bombing, and others fled because they were a family related to a Nationalist soldier, or were at one point landowners.

Nationalist and cities
The largest Irish communities are located predominantly in the cities and towns across Britain: in London, in particular Kilburn ( which has one of the largest Irish-born communities outside Ireland ) out to the west and north west of the city, in the large port cities such as Liverpool ( which elected the first Irish Nationalist Members of Parliament ), Glasgow, Bristol and Portsmouth.
With the early successes of the Expedition, there was soon a race between Chiang Kai-shek leading the " right-wing " of the Nationalist Party and the Communists, running inside the " left-wing " of the Nationalists, for control of major southern cities such as Nanjing and Shanghai.
Even so, a Nationalist force landed on the Chinese coast in 1963 and briefly seized 20 towns and cities before the PLA regained control.
Chinese troops, including the Chinese Nationalist 93rd Division, occupied cities as far south as Luang Prabang.
Pedro Albizu Campos was jailed again after the October 30 Nationalist revolts in various Puerto Rican cities and towns against United States rule in 1950.
The fall of Taiyuan was one of the few examples in the Chinese Civil War in which Nationalist forces echoed the defeated Ming loyalists who had, in the 17th century, brought entire cities to ruins resisting the invading Manchus.

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