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Threatening a Luftwaffe attack on Prague, Hitler persuaded Hácha to order the capitulation of the Czechoslovak army.
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Many critics, as well as many of those who used the book to justify their support of the invasion, overlooked the more balanced presentation on the pros and cons of war to be found in The Threatening Storm.
McGregor went on to write two additional early graphic novels for Eclipse, each set in contemporary New York City and starring interracial-buddy private eyes Ted Denning and Bob Rainier: Detectives, Inc .: A Remembrance of Threatening Green ( 1980 ), with artist Marshall Rogers, and Detectives, Inc .: A Terror Of Dying Dreams ( 1985 ), with artist Gene Colan, who would become a frequent collaborator.
Currently MAPS is conducting a study on LSD-Assisted Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Anxiety Secondary to Life Threatening Illness.
Threatening OMC's competitiveness was a 1980 Department of Energy proposal that boating be banned on weekends.
Threatening war clouds caused the Regular Army to be reorganized in 1808 to meet the growing threat posed by the Indian nations which lived on the western boundaries of the United States.
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C .; Weinrich, J. D., Definition and Measurement of Sexual Orientation, in Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, vol.
Threatening government officials is another classic way of expressing defiance toward the government and unwillingness to stand for its policies.
* Threatening public officials, especially judges, with prosecution if they don't unduly support their cases.
The young Isaac disliked his stepfather and held some enmity towards his mother for marrying him, as revealed by this entry in a list of sins committed up to the age of 19: " Threatening my father and mother Smith to burn them and the house over them.
Threatening behaviors may be conceptualized as a maladaptive outgrowth of normal competitive urge for interrelational dominance generally seen in animals.
Threatening to lead a mass writers ' exodus, Will successfully wrests his editor-in-chief position back from Alden, and negotiates for additional supervisory powers.
In The Threatening Storm, Pollack argued " the only prudent and realistic course of action left to the United States is to mount a full-scale invasion of Iraq to smash the Iraqi armed forces, depose Saddam ’ s regime, and rid the country of weapons of mass destruction .” Pollack predicted, “ It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars .” Likewise, he wrote, “ we should not exaggerate the danger of casualties among American troops.
Threatening to burn down the capital of Moldavia, the city of Iași, he forced the Moldavian boyars to sign the annexation of Moldavia.
Threatening absolute disappearance just a few years later in 1997, Getafe survived relegation into the fourth level Tercera División following a two-legged playoff victory over Huesca.
Luftwaffe and attack
With the Luftwaffe largely cleared from the skies, Allied fighters increasingly served as attack aircraft.
Luftwaffe Regulation 10, The Bomber ( Dienstvorschrift 10: Das Kampfflugzeug ), published in 1934, advocated air superiority and approaches to ground attack tactics without dealing with operational matters.
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.
* 1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
In his report of the Falangist attack on Guernica, British journalist George Steer reports finding German bomb casings, connecting Luftwaffe planes with the attack.
The chance to demoralise Britain with the loss of one of its most outspokenly patriotic figures may have motivated the Luftwaffe attack.
For years, it was assumed that Adolf Hitler ordered the German Army to stop the attack, favouring bombardment by the Luftwaffe.
Notably, the attack on Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium was conducted by Luftwaffe glider-deployed combat engineers.
Three days after this submarine attack, four Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 bombers raided Scapa Flow in one of the first bombing attacks on Britain during the war.
However, senior Luftwaffe commanders were enthusiastic about the idea of seizing Crete by a daring airborne attack.
Production of the Supermarine Spitfire at its parent company's base at Woolston, Southampton was vulnerable to enemy attack as a high profile target and was well within range of Luftwaffe bombers.
With the loss of Luftwaffe air superiority in the east they became vulnerable to the Red Army Air Force fighters, and from 1943 had begun conversion to the more conventional cannon attack tactics.
After pioneering efforts in World War II by both the Luftwaffe with the Fritz X, and the USAAF with the Azon controlled-trajectory bombs, today's smart bombs have largely reduced the need for dedicated attack platforms.
Von Greim was ordered to get the Luftwaffe to attack the Soviet forces that had just reached Potsdamer Platz and to make sure Heinrich Himmler was punished for his treachery in making unauthorised contact with the Western Allies.
It was hoped that the fear of unrestrained attack against German cities would prevent the Luftwaffe from considering attacks against England.
The last German daylight raid came on September 30 ; the Luftwaffe realized it was taking unacceptable losses and broke off the attack ; occasional blitz raids hit London and other cities from time.
Many losses were due to fire from Luftwaffe anti-aircraft batteries, whose crew members had not been informed of the attack.
Field Marshal von Greim was ordered to get the Luftwaffe to attack the Soviet forces that had just reached Potsdamerplatz ( only a city block from the Führerbunker ).
Unfortunately for its pilots and military passengers, by the outbreak of World War II, the Ju 52 was a thoroughly obsolete military design and unlike many other famous Luftwaffe aircraft, the Tante Ju was cumbersome, slow, and therefore vulnerable to attack.
The Luftwaffe attempted to destroy the Caen bridge with a bomb which failed to detonate, and two German coastal craft which attempted to attack the bridge were also repelled.
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