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* 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
* 1942 – World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island ( the " Akutan Zero ") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
He is also recipient of the Medal of Honor, awarded and presented to him by Jack Ryan ( then President of the U. S .) for the rescue of a downed fighter pilot during his time in Vietnam ( see Without Remorse ).
But their schooner receives critical damage and they end up shipwrecked aboard a raft, along with Piotr Skut, the pilot of the downed plane.
* Marazan ( 1926 ); a convict rescues a downed pilot who helps him break up a drug ring.
* Dominic Gentile, World War II USAAF pilot who was the first to break Eddie Rickenbacher's World War I record of 26 downed aircraft.
A parachuting pilot from the downed A-36 was brought before Bradley.
After the 26 December torture and murder of downed Italian pilot Tito Minniti Badoglio asked for and was given permission to use chemical warfare.
The teenagers find a downed United States Air Force F-15 pilot, Lt. Col. Andrew Tanner and learn about the current state of the war: several cities such as Washington, D. C., Kansas City, and Omaha have been obliterated, America's Strategic Air Command has been crippled in a surprise attack by Cuban saboteurs who had posed as immigrants illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, and the paratroopers the youths have encountered were dropped from fake commercial airliners to seize key positions in preparation for subsequent massive assaults via Mexico and Alaska.
After investigating his background, he was charged with the crime of murdering a downed Allied pilot ( on 21 November 1944 ) and tried by a British Military Court in Burgsteinfurt.
After landing near a downed pilot, the player watches him run off-screen, and then has to wait for several tense seconds — if it were human, the familiar, frantic " tap-tap " noise would be heard from the ship's hatch ; otherwise, the alien Jaggi would suddenly jump back into view, sans helmet, roaring and trying to smash into the cockpit.
As a result of Belenko's defection, fuel was limited for fighters on Sakhalin bases, which required Maj. Gennady Osipovich, the pilot of the Su-15 interceptor that downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007, to return to base almost immediately after the attack.
03: 00 — Forces still struggling to remove the pinned body of Clifton " Elvis " Wolcott, pilot of downed Super Six One.
They fought to establish defensive positions so not to be pinned down by very heavy enemy fire, while treating their wounded, and worked to free the pilot ’ s body from the downed helicopter.
The first military aviators to score five or more victories on the same date, thus each becoming an " ace in a day ", were pilot Julius Arigi and observer / gunner Johann Lasi of the Austro-Hungarian air force, on 22 August 1916, when they downed five Italian planes.
Eighteen years later, in 1991, an unarmed Palestinian protester is killed by an Israeli police official, coincidentally the brother of the downed Israeli pilot.
* A U. S. Navy helicopter from the battleship flies 10 miles ( 16 km ) inland to rescue a downed pilot from the aircraft carrier, a very lengthy rescue mission for the time.
* September 20 – A UH-2 Seasprite makes the U. S. Navys first helicopter rescue of a pilot downed in North Vietnam.
* June 2-F-4 phantom pilot Phil handley scores the first and only supersonic gun kill in history in his F-4E Phantom II while engaging a pair of MIG-19s over thud ridge in support of a rescue operation to save F-4 phantom crewman Roger locher, downed northeast of hanoi 23 days earlier.
Reigart is relieved from command for his actions and is offered a desk job in Washington, D. C., but chooses to retire with the respect of his sailors for the sacrifice he made to recover the downed pilot.
Major Dominic Salvatore " Don " Gentile ( December 6, 1920-January 28, 1951 ) was a World War II USAAF pilot who was the first to break Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record of 26 downed aircraft.
He claimed to a friendly locomotive driver that he was a downed bomber pilot trying to reach his unit, and asked to be taken to the nearest RAF base.
He outmaneuvered villains, salvaged everything from a bicycle to a nuclear missile, and rescued a downed Navy pilot ( in his sunken jet, in the pilot episode ), children trapped in a flooded cave, and even a dog.

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If, during the course of play, a loose ball travels past the goal line and is recovered within the end zone, then it is a touchdown if recovered by the team striving toward that goal, or a touchback if recovered and downed by the team striving toward the goal at the opposite end of the field.
Theramenes, imitating a popular drinking game in which the drinker toasted a loved one as he finished his cup, downed the poison and then flung the dregs to the floor, exclaiming " Here's to the health of my beloved Critias!
In 1781, an encyclopedia mentioned an earlier practice of removing the liver, heart, and blood of a downed stag and mixing it with milk, cheese, and bread ; and then giving it to dogs.
It then reveals that 72 hours earlier Frank and his team are moving through the Congo jungle attempting to located a downed cargo plane shot down by local guerrillas.
* If a fielder puts down either wicket whilst the batsmen are running between the wickets ( or otherwise forward of the popping crease during the course of play ), then the batsman nearest the downed wicket is out run out.
The kid tackles the giant taco to the ground just before reaching home plate ( they start at first base ), then poses triumphantly over the downed mascot.
Miami downed Clemson 14 – 0 in the second Gator Bowl trip, and Colorado led Clemson 20 – 0, then trailed 21 – 20 before finally defeating the Tigers 27 – 21 in the second Orange Bowl.
The Toller then retrieves any downed birds.
To give the boy hope, Morgan also tells him the version of the origin story of challenge coins with the downed WWI pilot crawling through no mans land only to be captured by the French then rescued by his challenge coin being recognized.
Note that if a kick is fielded by the receiving team in its end zone, is advanced beyond the goal line, and then the ball carrier retreats back into his own end zone where the ball is downed, it is a safety because the impetus would then be charged to the receiving team.
* A ball carrier fumbles the ball within the field of play forward into his opponents end zone and the loose ball then goes out of bounds behind or above his opponent's goal line or is recovered and downed by an opposing player in the end zone.
The squad is then ordered to rescue the crew of the downed plane before they can be captured by Afad's men.
On June 19, 1968, Lassen, then a 26-year-old Lieutenant, junior grade flying a UH-2 Seasprite, embarked on a mission to recover two downed naval aviators whose plane had been shot down deep in North Vietnamese territory.
Launched shortly after midnight to attempt the rescue of 2 downed aviators, Lt. ( then Lt.
If a player waves for a fair catch and then fails to touch the ball, it may be downed as normal by the kicking team, but if recovered by the receiving team, may not be advanced.
Once the ball carrier is downed, the play is whistled dead and the ball is placed by the officials at the point where the play ended ; this spot then becomes the line of scrimmage for the ensuing play.
He then gets up from his chair and, as his worried neighbor observes, delivers a final kick to the downed screen.
The Phantoms downed Central Jersey Riptide 3-0 in the quarter finals, and then overcame South Central Division champions Austin Lone Stars 2-1 in overtime in the semis.
The Sheepherders continued for the UWF on and off over the next couple of years, taking time out to participate in the first ever Jim Crockett Memorial Tag Team Cup, in which they beat Hector and Chavo Guerrero in the first round, then downed The Rock ' n ' Roll Express in the second round.
Cassel finished with 78 yards, zero touchdowns, and zero interceptions ; his most notable play, however, was a quick kick punt on third down in the fourth quarter ; with the wind at his back, Cassel's kick landed inside the 20, and then rolled towards the Bills ' end zone before it was downed, stranding the Bills at their own 2-yard line, struggling against the wind, down two scores with five minutes remaining.

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