There was much sickness in the corps, and the men were, in addition, without the clothing, shoes, and blankets needed for the winter weather.

During the late 1970s the U. S. Army saw the need of more sophistication within the attack helicopter corps, allowing them to operate in all weather conditions.

The player commands German units at the corps level and must contend with the computer-control Russians, as well as terrain, weather, supplies and even unit morale and fatigue.

In February 1916, French intelligence on German preparations and a delay in the attack due to bad weather gave the French High Command time to rush two divisions from the 30th Corps — the 72nd and 51st — to the area's defence.

The American glider and parachute infantry of the 82nd ( Operation Detroit ) and 101st Airborne Divisions ( Operation Chicago ), though widely scattered by poor weather and poorly marked landing zones in the American airborne landings in Normandy, secured the western flank of VII Corps with heavy casualties.

The U. S. Army Signal Corps was responsible for weather duty in the late 19th century and established the National Weather Service in 1870.

But, because the Corps had reached the Pacific in late November, they did not have much time to construct a winter fort before the cold weather set in, therefore choosing the Clatsop region because of the abundance of big game and its view of the Pacific — and they hoped to make contact with a fur trading ship to get word back to President Jefferson about the success of their mission.

In 1924, Colonel William Blaire in the U. S. Signal Corps did the first primitive experiments with weather measurements from balloon, making use of the temperature dependence of radio circuits.

On the VI Corps front, progress was made but proved very difficult over the mountainous terrain as the weather deteriorated further with the onset of winter.

However the close contact of the fight in the forest began to negate these advantages, the Austrians could not train their artillery on the close fighting, the damp weather made a cavalry charge risky, and Austrian IV Corps was committed piecemeal to the fighting.

" Apple Scruffs ", from George Harrison's album All Things Must Pass, refers to the Apple scruffs, a group of teenage girls who staked out The Beatles ' Apple Corps offices, Abbey Road Studios, and Paul McCartney's home, often sleeping outside in rough weather, waiting for a glimpse of a Beatle.

The weather cleared up on 5 January and an Australian patrol of the No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, observed 2, 000 or 3, 000 Ottoman soldiers digging defences south of Rafa in the area of El Magruntein.

The poor winter weather, which made armoured manoeuvre and the exploitation of overwhelming air superiority impossible, coupled with the massive losses suffered to its ranks during the autumn fighting, the need to transfer some British troops to Greece ( as well as the need to withdraw the Canadian I Corps to northwest Europe ) made it impractical for the allies to continue their offensive in early 1945.

The campaign was complicated by the weather, which grounded the Corps for long periods, and while the Ju 87s proved effective, they proved vulnerable to RAF fighters.

* Bad weather forces a U. S. Marine Corps pilot down in communist-controlled territory near Tsingtao, China, during the Chinese Civil War.

The Air Corps air space control and ground attack capacity is limited to low level and during clear weather.

* 1980: An Indian Army expedition by the Corps of Engineers led by Jai Bahuguna unsuccessfully attempts the peak driven back by bad weather from 7600m.

: Capacity for action by III Panzer Corps limited by weather and supply situation.

WAAAF personnel housed in this operations bunker collected information from radar and weather stations, as well as reports on air traffic, ship and troop movements collected from airports, army and Volunteer Air Observer Corps reporting posts.

Marine Corps personnel undergoing annual cold weather training above the Arctic Circle do not qualify for additional credit The ribbon is issued for one time service only and there are no devices authorized for additional periods of Arctic service.

During World War II, Watson served as a weather specialist in the United States Army Air Corps.

U. S. Air Force aircraft flew 60 weather reconnaissance missions into the typhoon, making Tip one of the most closely observed tropical cyclones .< ref name =" jtwc "> Rainfall from the typhoon led to a fire that killed 13 Marines and injured 68 at a United States Marine Corps training camp in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan.

He was a student at Harvard when he was drafted in 1943, and in the same year, as a sergeant in the Army Air Corps in Chengdu, China, he received the Bronze Star decoration for breaking the Soviet weather code.

As the United States Marine Corps transitioned from its utility uniform to the MCCUU, they discarded shined black combat boots, and switched to more functional tan rough-out ( non-shine ) combat boots, with either hot weather or temperate weather versions.

In his testimony he assured the committee that the Air Corps had selected its most experienced pilots and that it had the requisite experience at flying at night and in bad weather.

The Air Corps during the Great Depression, hampered by pay cuts and a reduction of flight time, operated almost entirely in daylight and good weather.

I guess it's this hot weather ''.

I sought out the gardener and asked him what he did to produce such beauties in that weather.

There are even motels for local weather peculiarities in Shamrock, Tex., as I discovered.

When Jo Hopper commented on the figure in Cape Cod Morning “ It ’ s a woman looking out to see if the weather ’ s good enough to hang out her wash ,” Hopper retorted, “ Did I say that?

" There is the coldest weather in Illinois I ever experienced anywhere.

I told the sisters about it so many times yesterday that they got quite fed up, but I could go on telling it masses of times ... What weather we've had!

It's such a fine, pure picture of a small section of American life that I can't imagine its ever seeming irrelevant, either as a social document or as one of the best examples of what's called cinema vérité or direct cinema ... It is fact, photographed and recorded with extraordinarily mobile camera and sound equipment, and then edited and carefully shaped into a kind of cinematic mural of faces, words, motel rooms, parlors, kitchens, streets, television images, radio music — even weather.

The weather is a metaphor for the feelings of the singer: " stormy weather since my man and I ain't together, keeps raining all the time.

The GOES I – M series of spacecraft are the principal observational platforms for covering such dynamic weather events and the near-earth space environment for the 1990s and into the 21st century.

This special interest of the king also resulted in the North Berwick witch trials with caused over seventy people to be accused of witchcraft in Scotland on account of bad weather when James VI of Scotland ( later James I of England ), who shared the Danish king ’ s interest in witch trials, in 1590 sailed to Denmark to meet his betrothed Anne of Denmark.

The present life man, O king, seems to me, in comparison with that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter amid your officers and ministers, with a good fire in the midst whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad ; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door and immediately out another, whilst he is within is safe from the wintry but after a short space of fair weather he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the dark winter from which he has emerged.

I am born of a people who are heroes and heroines [...] Patient because history is on their side, these masses do not despair because today the weather is bad.

After World War I, large, lighted manger scenes in churches and public buildings grew in popularity, and, by the 1950s, many companies were selling lawn ornaments of non-fading, long-lasting, weather resistant materials telling the nativity story.

TIROS I ( or TIROS-1 ) was the first successful weather satellite, and the first of a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites.

TIROS I was designed to test experimental techniques for taking television images of weather patterns from an almost circular orbit, at an altitude ranging from to.

* July 2 – In the homemade Inspiration I, consisting of a patio chair attached to 45 eight-foot ( 2. 4-m ) helium-filled weather balloons, American truck driver Larry Walters lifts off from the back yard of a home in San Pedro, California, planning to drift at an altitude of about 30 feet ( 9. 1 m ) for a few hours before using a pellet gun to shoot out some balloons and descend gradually.

" Two television advertisements described his position: In one he looked directly into the camera and said, " I guessed wrong on the weather before the city ’ s biggest snowfall last winter.

In later years, the Via Egnatia was revived as a key road of the Byzantine Empire ; Procopius records repairs made by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I during the 6th century, though even then the dilapidated road was said to be virtually unusable during wet weather.

Part I celebrates the creation of the primal light, the Earth, the heavenly bodies, bodies of water, weather, and plant life.

And so where I live, who I interact with, what I hear, what the weather ’ s like, what my granddaughter says to me, and so on, they all affect the music.

War, economic, political, and weather conditions sometimes led to cancellation of some or all major parades, especially during the American Civil War, World War I and World War II, but the city has always celebrated Carnival.