During the spring of 1999, AMRAAMs saw their main combat action during Operation Allied Force, the Kosovo bombing campaign.

Allied assault on the Schellenberg – taken by coup de main on 2 July – provided the Allies with an excellent river crossing.

At 02: 00 on 13 August, 40 squadrons were sent forward towards the enemy, followed at 03: 00, in eight columns, by the main Allied force pushing over the Kessel.

Axis fighter aircraft focused on defending against Allied bombers while Allied fighters ' main role was as bomber escorts.

With the growing possibility of an Allied invasion in the Balkans, the Axis began to divert more resources to the destruction of the Partisans main force and its high command.

The German Navy purchased 14 Zeppelins, named L1 to L14 ; the main use of the airships was in reconnaissance over the North Sea and the Baltic, where the endurance of the craft led German warships to a number of Allied vessels.

This plan, defined as the mandate system, was adopted by the " Council of Ten " ( the heads of government and foreign ministers of the main Allied powers: Britain, France, the United States, Italy, and Japan ) on 30 January 1919 and transmitted to the League of Nations.

The entire process was done quickly and in the main without difficulty, after which the vessels were studied, scrapped, or given to Allied navies.

* July 17 – August 2 – WWII – Potsdam Conference: At Potsdam, the three main Allied leaders hold their final summit of the war.

During World War II, the city was badly affected by Allied bombings, and after German occupation in 1943, Milan became the main centre of the Italian resistance movement.

The port city was also the main objective of German armies in December ; the inability of the Allies to end the war in 1944 meant that Allied troops had to winter in Belgium, during which time the Ardennes Offensive was launched by the Germans, resulting in heavy fighting on Belgian soil that lasted into 1945.

Its main mission was democratization but part of the agenda was also the prohibition of any criticism of the Allied occupation forces.

These RAF commandos accompanied the Allied invasion forces in all theatres ; their main role was to allow the forward operation of friendly fighters by servicing and arming them from captured air fields.

* The Big Four ( World War I ), the main Allied leaders and participants in the Paris Peace Conference

The main five Allied prisoners ( three Americans, one British, one French ) bunked in " Barracks 2 " ( a goof here was that whenever the door was open, another building labeled " Barracks 3 " could be seen, even though the barracks were supposed to be directly in front of the ' Kommandantur ', which was, unlike actual prison camps, situated inside the wire.

The crossroads of Baugnez where the Malmedy massacre happened is surrounded by a circle. Hitler's plans for the Battle of the Bulge gave the main goal ( breaking through Allied lines ) to the 6th SS Panzer Army, commanded by General Sepp Dietrich.

As the second Dutch attack on Fontenoy went in, the main Allied formation moved towards the French position on the plateau.

Spanish troops under Gastañaga joined the main Allied army, as did the Count of Tilly with troops from Liège and Brandenburg on 22 July.

The flooded Weißeritz cut the left wing of the Allied army, commanded by Johann von Klenau and Ignaz Gyulai, from the main body.

Following his successes with the Six Days Campaign ( 10 to 14 February 1814 ) in smashing the Allied drive on Paris, Napoleon headed southward towards Seine River where the main Austrian Army under Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, was threatening Paris from the southeast.

There was no pursuit of the defeated Allied main body.

After the siege of the Japanese GHQ camps in the main province between the Japanese and Allied ground force.

At the beginning of 1945, prior to the arrival of American ground forces, Allied war planes attacked the main train station of Salzwedel, killing 300 people.

Unless one counts the Allied occupation following World War II, the Japanese main islands have never been successfully invaded in recorded history.

Although initially disappointed that the main French fleet was not at Alexandria, Nelson knew from the presence of the transports that they must be nearby.

The French initially reported just 11 British ships, as Swiftsure and Alexander were still returning from their scouting operations at Alexandria, and so were to the west of the main fleet, out of sight.

By 16: 00, Alexander and Swiftsure were also in sight, although some distance from the main British fleet, and Brueys gave orders to abandon the plan to remain at anchor and instead for his line to set sails, although Blanquet protested the order on the grounds that there were not enough men aboard the French ships to both sail the ships and man the guns.

Cleopatra now earnestly advised that garrisons should be put into strong towns, and that the main fleet should return to Alexandria.

" His next order was to turn away by two points, and, in any case, a few minutes later he reversed his fleet's course to fulfill its anticipated role of leading the German forces towards the main British fleet.

* Failing in his role as fast armoured scout to report to Jellicoe the exact position of the German ships he encountered, or to keep in contact with the German fleet while he retreated to the main British Grand Fleet.

This information was important to Jellicoe to know how best to position the main fleet to make the most of its eventual engagement with the German High seas fleet.

This was partly a consequence of his ships being stationed at Rosyth, rather than Scapa Flow with the main fleet, since local facilities at Rosyth were limited, but this was a problem identified months before Jutland which Beatty had failed to correct.

With his main objectives reached and with winter approaching Germanicus ordered his army back to their winter camps, with the fleet occasioning some damage by a storm in the North Sea.

The main Ottoman fleet remained inside the Dardanelles for the early part of the war, while the Greek destroyers continuously patrolled the straits ' exit to report on a possible sortie.

The plan envisaged a main fleet of 100, 000 men, 49 battleships and 28 battlecruisers by 1920.

The main fighting forces of the navy were to become the High Seas Fleet, and the U-boat fleet.

They landed and decided to name the island " Prins Maurits van Nassaueiland ", after Prince Maurits ( Latin version: Mauritius ) of the House of Nassau, the stadtholder of Holland, but also after the main vessel of the fleet which was called " Mauritius ".

The main naval base for the British fleet Scapa Flow in both the First and Second World Wars was situated at Lyness in the south-east of the island.

Externally, Columbia was the first orbiter in the fleet whose surface was mostly covered with High & Low Temperature Reusable Surface Insulation ( HRSI / LRSI ) tiles as its main thermal protection system ( TPS ), with white silicone rubber-painted Nomex — known as Felt Reusable Surface Insulation ( FRSI ) blankets — in some areas on the wings, fuselage and Payload Bay Doors.

Rivers mined with Confederate torpedoes were often cleared by Unionists placing captured Confederate soldiers with knowledge of the torpedoes ' location in small boats ahead of the main fleet.

These ships, which, after the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 1905 ), became known simply as destroyers, were basically enlarged torpedo boats, with speed equal to or surpassing the torpedo boats, but were armed with heavier guns that could attack them before they were able to close on the main fleet.

Solid line: main fleet ; dashed line: a possible route of Hong Bao's squadron ; dotted line: a trip of seven Chinese sailors, including Ma Huan, from History of Kozhikode | Calicut to Mecca on a native ship.

* Autumn – Second Dutch Expedition to Indonesia: After being separated from the main Dutch fleet of Admiral Wybrand Van Warwyck, three ships under Jacob Cornelisz.

* 1274 – November 20 – The Yuan Dynasty under Kublai Khan attempts the first of several invasions of Japan ; after capturing outlying islands, the Yuan forces are repulsed on the main island at the Battle of Bun ' ei by amassed Japanese warriors and a strong storm which batters their forces and fleet.

The British fleet used frigates to keep a constant watch on the harbour, while the main force remained out of sight 50 miles

Charles of Salerno sent a newly raised Provençal fleet to the relief of Malta ; but it was caught by the main Aragonese fleet under Roger of Lauria and destroyed in the Battle of Malta.

Evidently believing the main Aragonese fleet was raiding down the coast, he hoped to destroy the blockading squadron and return to Naples before it returned.