The " Pensacola convoy " of seven transport vessels gathered at Honolulu and sailed for Manila on 29 November, transporting the 52 A-24 dive bombers of the 27th BG, 18 P-40s intended for the 49th Pursuit Group, 48 pilots of the 35th PG, 39 recent flight school graduates on " casual " status, and the ground echelons of five squadrons, all escorted by the USS Pensacola.

There the President Polk embarked the ground echelons of two squadrons of the 7th Bomb Group ( based at Jogjakarta ) and continued to Java, escorted by the heavy cruiser USS Houston, arriving in Surabaya on 28 January.

:: Note: Only 420th Bombardment Squadron of group arrived with B-29 Aircraft, 464th and 872d Bomb Squadrons only ground echelons arrived.

After the air and ground echelons were united in England in December, the group began ferrying cargo in the British Isles and training with airborne troops and did some training with British paratroops and glider towing.

The movement of the assigned air combat groups began in May 1942 with the shipment by fast troopships ( usually former ocean liners ) of their ground echelons.

There were also two light field ground echelons of the 7th Bombardment Group ( H ), which arrived in the Philippines and were relocated to Mariveles after the evacuation of Manila.

He points out that on that day the DAF bombers were able to attack the Axis ground troops and rear echelons with impunity ; while Marseille probably shot down 15 fighters, while the rest of the Luftwaffe pilots shot down another five confirmed aircraft:

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

The actual surface becomes both ground and background, and it turns out -- suddenly and paradoxically -- that the only place left for a three-dimensional illusion is in front of, upon, the surface.

She was standing on a flat rock three feet above ground and when she saw him she rose to full height and roared, opening her mouth wide, lashing her tail, and stamping at the rock with both forefeet in irritation, as much as to say: `` How dare you disturb me in my sacred precinct ''??

The Sargasso Sea contains large amounts of seaweed and is also the spawning ground for both the European eel and the American eel.

With both sides seeking battle, they soon stumbled upon one other on the dry ground between the Mehaigne and Petite Gheete rivers, close to the small village of Ramillies.

One foot in front of another, with periods where both feet are off the ground.

Tree kangaroos are able to utilize either form of locomotion, most commonly alternating feet when moving arboreally and hopping on both feet simultaneously when on the ground.

There was much speculation and fear about the prospect of a Labour government, and comparatively little about a Liberal government, even though it could have plausibly presented an experienced team of ministers compared to Labour's almost complete lack of experience, as well as offering a middle ground that could get support from both Conservatives and Labour in crucial Commons divisions.

Its seeds ( each one contained within a fruit, which is dried ) are used in the cuisines of many different cultures, in both whole and ground form.

The Confucian idea of " Rid of the two ends, take the middle " is a Chinese equivalent of Hegel's idea of " thesis, antithesis, and synthesis ", which is a way of reconciling opposites, arriving at some middle ground combining the best of both.

Traditionally, spices are used both whole and ground ; cooked or raw ; and they may be added at different times during the cooking process to produce different results.

They used both natural pozzolans ( trass or pumice ) and artificial pozzolans ( ground brick or pottery ) in these concretes.

Someone placed a wooden ladder there sometime before 1852, when the status quo defined both the doors and the window ledges as common ground.

The common chimpanzee is both arboreal and terrestrial and spends its nights in the trees, while most daylight hours are spent on the ground.

Though Herbert's novel Dune seems to describe Harkonnen's suspensor belt as simply enabling him to stand and walk upright rather than actually " fly ," both the 1984 film and the 2000 miniseries feature the Baron utilizing the suspensors to levitate off the ground and float through the air in a flying-like manner.

Other reasons include: a ) changes in plant canopy caused by shifts in plant biomass production associated with moisture regime ; b ) changes in litter cover on the ground caused by changes in both plant residue decomposition rates driven by temperature and moisture dependent soil microbial activity as well as plant biomass production rates ; c ) changes in soil moisture due to shifting precipitation regimes and evapo-transpiration rates, which changes infiltration and runoff ratios ; d ) soil erodibility changes due to decrease in soil organic matter concentrations in soils that lead to a soil structure that is more susceptible to erosion and increased runoff due to increased soil surface sealing and crusting ; e ) a shift of winter precipitation from non-erosive snow to erosive rainfall due to increasing winter temperatures ; f ) melting of permafrost, which induces an erodible soil state from a previously non-erodible one ; and g ) shifts in land use made necessary to accommodate new climatic regimes.

Together with density it is an important element influencing the yield of the energy transmitted for both atmospheric overpressure and ground acceleration.

In the NFL the receiver must touch the ground with both feet, but in most other codes — CFL, NCAA and high school — one foot in bounds is enough.

* push in the back – Any tackle which forces the player forward, into the ground, or both, from behind.

The Fascists and the Italian political right held common ground: both held Marxism in contempt, discounted class consciousness and believed in the rule of elites.

* Takedowns A takedown is used by one grappler to manipulate his or her opponent from a position where both are initially standing, to a position on the ground.

The US Marines in Vietnam also saw some success with this method, under its CAP ( Combined Action Program ) where Marines were teamed as both trainers and " stiffeners " of local elements on the ground.

A possible middle ground position has been suggested, based on the observation that " hacking " describes a collection of skills which are used by hackers of both descriptions for differing reasons.

The Cleric arms himself with a combination of both melee and ranged capabilities, being a middle ground of sorts between the other two classes.

Whitlam proved a far more effective opponent, both in the media and in parliament, and Labor soon began to recover from its losses and gain ground, with Whitlam repeatedly besting Holt in Parliament.

After heavy rains and an onslaught of mice, snow fell on October 15, 1825, and remained on the ground through a winter so cold that the ice on the Red was five feet thick.

He dropped it and carefully ground it to nothing with the sole of his heavy shoe.

Air shows, and other big shows such as agricultural shows, on grassy land, are vulnerable to continued heavy rain waterlogging the ground, and making the cloudbase too low for flying, forcing cancellation, or the show ending early, costing much money for the show's organizers, as people and parking cars have difficulty moving about and turn the land into a morass, and the organizers may be tempted to put straw or cinders down to make movement easier, and the owner of the land cannot accept the resulting damage.

First, the Romans stood their ground and used volleys of pila ( heavy javelins ) to kill thousands of Britons who were rushing toward the Roman lines.

Captive balloons may be more convenient for such experiments, because kite-carried antennas require a lot of wind, which may be not always possible with heavy equipment and a ground conductor.

Range was not key criteria for these tasks and it was not always viable for the Heer to move heavy artillery over recently captured territory to bombard fortifications or support ground forces when faster dive-bombers could do the job more quickly.

The primordia form at ground level in lawns in humid spaces under the thatch and after heavy rainfall or in dewy conditions balloon to full size in a few hours, release spores, and then collapse.

A moose's body structure, with a large heavy body suspended on long spindly legs, makes these animals particularly dangerous when hit by passenger cars with low ground clearances.

This distinction is particularly important for St. John's where a heavy snowfall can be followed by rain so that no snow remains on the ground.

Potatoes are sensitive to heavy frosts, which damage them in the ground.

They have wormlike bodies of 3 to 4 meters in length with two tentacular arms that end in fine tentacles for manipulation and two tentacles that end in paddles that can be used for heavy lifting ( including acting as " legs ", lifting the front of the creature off the ground in a humanoid-like stance ).

Snowfalls can often be heavy, but rain is as common as snow in winter, and it is not unusual for the ground to be snow-free even in mid-winter.

In the first days of the war, there was heavy ground fighting around strategic ports as Iraq launched an attack on Khuzestan.

' Lodging ' occurs when an ear stalk falls over in the wind and rots on the ground, and heavy nitrogenous fertilization of wheat makes the grass grow taller and become more susceptible to this problem.

In most cases, the studio's metal equipment racks are all joined together with heavy copper cables ( or flattened copper tubing or busbars ) and similar connections are made to the technical ground.

For particularly demanding applications, the main technical ground may consist of a heavy copper pipe, if necessary fitted by drilling through several concrete floors, such that all technical grounds may be connected by the shortest possible path to a grounding rod in the basement.

As a result they did not fire and the CH-47 made an entry similar to the first, this time successfully landing the team on the ground amidst heavy machine gun and rocket fire while taking some casualties.

After heavy fighting, primarily by the 4th Infantry Division, VII Corps ' attack ground to a halt.

The French Army of the Rhine, commanded by Marshal François-Achille Bazaine, numbering about 183 infantry battalions, 104 cavalry squadrons, backed by 520 heavy cannon, totaling 112, 800 officers and men, dug in along high ground with their southern left flank at the town of Rozerieulles, and their northern right flank at St. Privat.

Exploiting observation from higher ground to the east, the Germans were able to inflict heavy losses on the British divisions holding the new line beyond Langemarck.

The French First Army and British 2nd and 5th Armies attacked on 9 October on a 13, 500 yards front, from south of Broodseinde to St Jansbeek, to advance half of the distance from Broodseinde ridge to Passchendaele on the main front, led to heavy casualties on both sides, with advances in the north of the attack being retained by British and French troops and most of the ground taken in front of Passchendaele and on the Becelaere and Gheluvelt spurs being lost to German counter-attacks.

Birdwood later wrote that the return of heavy rain and mud sloughs was the main cause of the failure to hold captured ground.

In 2007 Jack Sheldon concluded that casualty figures were irrelevant because the German army could not afford heavy losses or lose the initiative by being compelled to fight another defensive battle on ground of the Allies ' choosing.

Increased ground clearance is useful in climates with heavy snowfall.

For example, soils heavy in clay can act like pavement, moderating the near ground temperature.