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The spring 1942 Amerika Bomber program also sought to produce useful strategic bomber designs for the Luftwaffe, with their prime design priority being an advanced trans-oceanic range capability as the main aim of the project to directly attack the United States from Europe or the Azores.
A white paper produced by the Royal Air Force for the British government in 1961 claimed that the RAF's nuclear force was capable of destroying key Soviet cities such as Moscow and Kiev before bomber aircraft from the United States ' Strategic Air Command had entered Soviet airspace, " taking into account Bomber Command ’ s ability to be on target in the first wave several hours in advance of the main SAC force operating from bases in the United States .".
For example during the Coventry Blitz on the night of 14 / 15 November 1940, 515 Luftwaffe bombers many flying more than one sortie against Coventry delivered their bombs in a raid that lasted more than 10 hours, while in contrast the much more devastating raid on Dresden on the night of 13 / 14 of February 1945 by the two waves of the RAF Bomber Command's main force, the first wave released their first bomb at 22: 14, with all but one of the 254 Lancaster bombers releasing their bombs within two minutes, and the last one releasing at 22: 22.
Through four years under his command, RAF Bomber Command attempted to destroy the main German cities.
He first appears as the main villain of Bomberman ' 94, in which he attempts to run a comet-disguised ship into Planet Bomber after throwing it into chaos.
Sir Arthur Harris, head of Bomber Command, routed the main bomber force with last-minute dog-legs where their direction would alter towards another target.
* November 10-11 ( overnight ) – 313 Bomber Command Lancasters attack the railway yards at Modane, France, and the main rail line between France and Italy, inflicting serious damage on the railway system.
* August 18 – 19 ( overnight ) – Royal Air Force Bomber Commands Pathfinder Force flies its first mission, with 31 Pathfinder aircraft attempting to mark the target – the German submarine base at Flensburg – for a main force of 87 bombers.
It consisted of specialist squadrons that marked targets for the main attacks of Bomber Command aircraft.
It contains memorials to Fleet Air Arm and RAF Bomber Command pilots, radar and other aviation related material, as well as workshops for work on other vehicles, but the main feature is the collection of New Zealand's civil and some Royal New Zealand Air Force aircraft.
Its main role was to serve as a base for the Halifax Bomber 158 Squadron.

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The landing delay caused by the malfunction in the Command / Service Module's main engine necessitated significant modifications to the mission schedule.
** Land Force Command-Land Force Command is the operational organisation of the RFMF, and is responsible for all of the main units:
Throughout the Star Trek franchise, the main characters ' isolation from Starfleet Command compels them to make and act upon decisions without Starfleet Command's orders or information.
* Titan, a type of main battle bipedal walker carrying a cannon in the Command & Conquer series
The main branches are the Land Forces Command ( Kommando Landstreitkräfte ; KdoLaSK ), Air Command ( Kommando Luftstreitkräfte ; KdoLuSK ), Mission Support ( Kommando Einsatzunterstützung ; KdoEU ), International Missions ( Kommando Internationale Einsätze ; KdoIE ), Command Support ( Kommando Führungsunterstützung ; KdoFüU ) and Special Forces Command ( Kommando Spezialeinsatzkräfte ; KdoSEK ).
: The 919 SOW, located about five miles ( 8 kilometers ) south of Crestview and from Eglin main at Eglin AFB Auxiliary Field # 3 ( Duke Field ) and is the only special operations wing in the Air Force Reserve Command ( AFRC ).
The 91st Missile Wing ( 91 MW ) of the Air Force Global Strike Command ( AFGSC ) is responsible for maintaining the Minuteman III nuclear missiles located in three main fields across North Dakota.
Its main, central Holy Trinity Square is closed on the north by the building of the Military Command, on the west by the Main Guard building and on the east by the Magistrate building ( presently Museum of Slavonia ).
One of the main goals of the game is to build up a character so it is strong enough to venture inward, eventually to the Crown of Command.
The main board was changed ( it had four regions, and " The Beast ", a copy of the Dragon King alternate ending, instead of the Crown of Command ), the heroes and cards were different ( although many were just copies of the original ones with changed names ), and the terminology was changed ( event cards instead of adventure cards, sorcery cards instead of spell cards, etc .).
The main operations of Coastal Command were defensive, defending supply lines in the various theatres of war, most notably the Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres and the battle of the Atlantic.
In March 1937, the then Director of Operations Group Captain Robert Saundby, complained that the role for Coastal Command in war, namely supporting the bomber offensive, and second, the support of naval forces along the British coastline, were too limited and was in danger of diverting the Command from its main concern ; ASW.
For Coastal Command the main concern was the Atlantic.
The Command Module had two DSKYs connected to its AGC: one located on the main instrument panel and a second located in the lower equipment bay near a sextant used for aligning the inertial guidance platform.
On February 13, 1931, the Vickers 6-Ton light infantry tank, under the designator T-26, officially entered service in the Red Army as the " main tank for close support of combined arms units and tank units of High Command Reserve ".
After the 1964 coup d ' état, Brazil's main federation of labor unions, the General Command of Workers ( Comando Geral dos Trabalhadores-CGT ) – which since its formation gathered leaders approved by the Ministry of Labour, a practice tied to the fact that since the Vargas dictatorship, unions had become quasi-state organs – was dissolved, while unions themselves suffered intervention of the military regime.
Its primary units were 84 flying squadrons, mostly equipped with F-51 Mustang and F-47 Thunderbolt fighters with air defense of the continental United States as their main mission, it's units under the jurisdiction of the Continental Air Command of the regular Air Force.
The Last Command by Republic Pictures features Jim Bowie ( Sterling Hayden ) as the main character during the battle of the Alamo and the Texas War of Independence.
There are three main headquarters under Allied Command Operations:

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at any rate, heat grew so intense in the main part of the house that it melted the window panes, and fused the K'ang-si pottery to cinders.
On their way, they stopped at every gas station along the main boulevards to question the attendants.
In Mack's the leader at camp, but Jack is here the is of the second main declarative represents is the leader and therefore has stress.
The suds box drain is arranged at the start to deliver into the raised main drain pipe ( thus returning suds to soap box ) and the machine is started.
At this point the drains are readjusted so that the suds box drain will discharge directly into the waste line and the main tub drain is set at the 2-1/2 mark on the drain gauge.
After finding that its coasts led nowhere, however, he turned north again, toward the main, ice-filled passageway -- and the crew, at first uneasy, then frightened, rebelled.
Since then he had worked at this and that, though some said his main interest was gambling.
Cocktails will be served from 6 to 7 p.m., with dinner at 7 and entertainment in the main dining room immediately following.
However well chosen and cleverly arranged, such memorabilia unfortunately amounted to more of an interruption than an auxiliary to the evening's main business, which ( considering the talent at hand ) should probably have been the gathering of fresh samples of the Chicago style.
One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.
At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.
But the rest of it, the main part, wasn't based on logic at all.
Some frogs and toads are toxic, the main poison glands being at the side of the neck and under the warts on the back.
In novels such as Taken at the Flood, After the Funeral and Hickory Dickory Dock he is even less in evidence, frequently passing the duties of main interviewing detective to a subsidiary character.
The parish's main Gaelic football pitch and two secondary schools are on the mainland at Poll Raithní.
Through satellite images and ground investigations, archaeologists have detected at least 8 main roads that together run for more than 180 miles ( ca 300 km ), and are more than 30 feet ( 10 m ) wide.
The main buildings at Pueblo Bonito, for example, are arranged according to this direction and probably served as central places for ceremonial journeys across the landscape.
Armenia's main rail and road border-crossing with Georgia ( at ) is along the Debed river near the Armenian town of Bagratashen and the Georgian town of Sadakhlo.
This suggests that tax collection in Armenia is improving at the expense of ordinary citizens, rather than wealthy citizens ( who have been the main beneficiaries of Armenia's double-digit economic growth in recent years ).
* The British Empire of The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling features a massive water powered engine at Oxford, used by two of the main characters.
Gaudí's multicolored mosaic salamander, popularly known as " el drac " ( the dragon ), at the main entrance, prior to vandalism early in 2007
360 degree view at the main entrance of the park outside the hall of columns
It is possible to view the main city in panorama, with the Sagrada Família and the Montjuïc area visible at a distance.
Vessels may carry a number of anchors: bower anchors ( formerly known as sheet anchors ) are the main anchors used by a vessel and normally carried at the bow of the vessel.
Every yacht should carry at least two anchors – the main or bower anchor and a second lighter kedge anchor.

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