After that, it requires several minutes of concentrated work, including six separate and deliberate actions by a minimum of three men sitting at three separate stations in a bomber, each with another man beside him to help, for an armed bomb to be released.

** WWII: A Luftwaffe Junkers 88 bomber sinks the British ship RMS Lancastria, which was evacuating troops from near Saint-Nazaire, France, killing some 5, 800 men.

During this period Port Moresby, especially its " villages ", fell into disrepair as the Fifth Air Force under General George Kenney " pushed his bomber line forward 1800 miles " rapidly establishing no less than five air bases around the sparsely populated town, and troops from a variety of nations under MacArthurs ' direction transited through the vicinity ; which became a major allied staging base feeding men and material forward from Brisbane, Australia which lies 1, 800 miles across the Coral Sea and about six hours away by B-17 bomber or C-47 transport.

*" The 13th Mission "-The story of a World War II Lancaster bomber, including the women who built it and the men who flew it, in the context of the war era.

** A U. S. Army Air Forces B-17G Flying Fortress of the 422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bombardment Group ( Heavy ), crashes at Yielden, England, on takeoff from RAF Chelveston, killing all 10 men aboard the bomber and 11 people on the ground.

* October 6 – A U. S. Air Force B-29-100-BW Superfortress bomber on a flight to test the secret Sunseeker infrared homing device later used on the AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile crashes in Waycross, Georgia, shortly after takeoff from Robins Air Force Base, killing nine of the 13 men on board.

* Bomber Mafia, a close-knit group of American military men who believed that long range heavy bomber aircraft in large numbers were able to win a war

Losses in aircrew were equally heavy, with 650 men lost ( killed and POW ) of 2, 900, 22 % of the bomber crews.

At a time when men dominated the cockpits of military aircraft, Feik logged more than 5, 000 hours as a B-29 flight engineer, engineering observer, and pilot in fighter, attack, bomber, cargo, and training aircraft.

All four men on the KC-135 and three of the seven men on the bomber were killed.

In 1943 the training of B-25 bomber crews began and in 1944-45 it became an aerial port of embarkation to the Pacific in preparation for the expected transfer of large numbers of men and aircraft from Europe to the Pacific.

* In the middle of 2006 two men robbed the family of the late Hero of the Soviet Union, WWII bomber pilot Yegor Chalov ( 1919-1983 ) in Novgorod.

The book has two stories that are interwoven throughout – that of Yossarian in the last stages of his life, and that of Sammy Singer and Lew Rabinowitz, two men from Coney Island who also fought in World War II ( the Sammy Singer character makes a brief appearance in Catch-22 as the tailgunner aboard Yossarian's bomber who kept waking up and fainting when he saw Yossarian trying to attend to the wounds of Snowden ).

This bomber, with a crew of seven young men ( five from Ontario, Canada, including pilot Robert Upcott of Windsor, Ontario ), took off in bad weather despite the fact that the Germans had not yet agreed to a ceasefire.

Twelve men survived the sinking of the submarine: the crews of her two deck guns and those who had been on the conning tower.

Anticipating what the world would be like in the year 2000, the book is interesting both for its hits ( trains and cars resulting in the dispersion of population from cities to suburbs ; moral restrictions declining as men and women seek greater sexual freedom ; the defeat of German militarism, and the existence of a European Union ) and its misses ( he did not expect successful aircraft before 1950, and averred that " my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocate its crew and founder at sea ").

* 1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

* 1914 – German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers, HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of nearly 1400 men and boys.

* August 12 – The Russian submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.

* On August 12, 2000, the Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea, killing all 118 men on board.

* February 24 – The, carrying Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to British-controlled Palestine, is torpedoed and sunk by the Soviet submarine Shch 213, killing 768 men, women and children, with only one survivor, a 19 year old man, making it the largest exclusively civilian naval disaster of the war.

* January 27 – A French submarine sinks in the Mediterranean Sea with 52 men.

* May 22 – The U. S. nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

Five OSS men participated in the very first UDT submarine operation with the USS Burrfish in the Caroline Islands in August 1944.

Just as Vostrikov orders the men off the boat so that he can scuttle it, they are rescued by another Soviet submarine.

With the rising tide, the submarine frees itself, and the Russian captain ( Theodore Bikel ) sets out in search of his missing men.

Destroying three aircraft, a fuel dump and numerous buildings, the surviving SBS men had to hide in the countryside for four days before they could reach the waiting submarine.

Kretschmer's usual standards of conduct were evident during the sinking of his boat ; he signaled Walker asking for rescue for his men, taking care to ensure as many left the submarine as possible, and assisted some of his crew towards the rescue nets hung from the British destroyer.

Although Durnford-Slater requested that a submarine be sent back for these men, the Admiralty decided that it could not take the risk and as a result the men later surrendered.

On New Year's Day 1915, the Royal Navy battleship was hit by a torpedo from a German submarine off Start Point in South Devon, with the loss of more than 500 men.

The Germans lost over 1, 000 men, the submarine U-64, and eight destroyers ( Hermann Künne, Wolfgang Zenker, Erich Koellner, Georg Thiele, Bernd von Arnim, Erich Giese, Hans Lüdemann and Diether von Roeder.

* The song is used in the Kelsey Grammer submarine comedy Down Periscope, ( sung by the men of USC Concert Chorale ) as the diesel submarine USS Stingray is initially launched.

The wing was put out of action and the personnel were sent back to Italy aboard the RM Città di Messina, but on 14 January 1941 the ship was sunk by submarine, with the loss of 432 men, including 53 members of the 9th.

The ice floe has turned upside down and trapped the two men, while the Sealab crew tries to rescue them in a submarine.

A stock scene in the submarine genre film is the depiction of a grim-faced submarine crew waiting in silence as depth charges explode overhead and bolts fly out of bulkheads in the submarine ( they are dead silent because sound carries extremely well underwater, and so even the sound of men talking on a submarine would be picked up by normal sonar on other ships ).

Before the days of solid-state ( electronics ), inexperienced young men were sequentially directed through a series of supply compartments to request a Fallopian tube for a malfunctioning radio, RADAR, or SONAR set.

One car was reserved for passengers, with two classes provided, each of which had separate compartments for men and women.

The bulkhead should have arrested the blast wave, but it was penetrated by a light air conditioning channel which allowed passage of the blast wave, fire and toxic smoke into the second and perhaps third and fourth compartments, injuring or disorienting the 36 men in the command post located in the second compartment and preventing the initiation of an emergency ballast tank blow to resurface the submarine.

Because of concerns from individual women passengers who might be left with men in the compartment as passengers alighted, a few compartments ( typically the end one in each train unit ) was so allocated.

I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

And men also used vacuum cleaners in both rooms, sucking dust up once more.

Across town, Greenwich Village also saw a growing homosexual community ; both Harlem and Greenwich Village provided furnished rooms for single men and women, which was a major factor in their development as centers for homosexual communities.

Mosques in South and Southeast Asia put men and women in separate rooms, as the divisions were built into them centuries ago.

Holmes says, " I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson, always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much with the men of my year ;... my line of study was quite distinct from that of the other fellows, so that we had no points of contact at all ".

She did try in some ways to minimise disruption by dressing more sedately than usual and by avoiding the bars and smoking rooms frequented by the men.

Shaft's plan is to cause a distraction with an explosive thrown through the window of Marcy's room while Ben and his men come down the hall and deal with the Mafia men as they leave their rooms.

In Tolkien's books, it was mostly populated by men, but hobbit servants worked at the Prancing Pony Inn and special hobbit-sized rooms were available there ; there were also some hobbit homes on the hill.

Chard realized that the north wall, under almost constant Zulu attack, could not be held, and at 6: 00 pm Chard pulled his men back into the yard, abandoning the front two rooms of the hospital in the process.

Until the late 1950s, YMCAs in the United States were built with hotel-like rooms called residences or dormitories ; These rooms were built with the young men in mind coming from rural America and many foreign born young men arriving to the new cities.

Nudity may be acceptable in public single-sex changing rooms at swimming baths, for example, or for mass medical examination of men for military service.

Las Vegas rooms were at a premium when the Rat Pack would appear, with many visitors sleeping in hotel lobbies or cars to get a chance to see the three men together.

Freudenberger House ( referred to by students as " Freddy ") is a five-story, U-shaped residence hall, designed with 2 -, 3-and 4-person rooms to accommodate 740 men and women on single-gender floors.

For example, the barroom were reserved for men but adjacent rooms were places where women could meet, families could come, and female sociability flourish.

Very large tea houses may have several tea rooms of different sizes ; a large, well-equipped mizuya resembling a modern kitchen ; a large waiting room for guests ; a welcoming area where guests are greeted and can remove and store their shoes ; separate toilets for men and women ; a changing room ; a storage room ; and possibly several anterooms as well as a garden with a roji path, an outdoor waiting area for guests and one or more privies.

In the United States, residence halls are sometimes segregated by sex, with men living in one group of rooms, and women in another.

Most colleges and universities offer coeducational dorms, where either men or women reside on separate floors but in the same building or where both sexes share a floor but with individual rooms being single-sex.

A room in such a dormitory often comes with a communal cook ( for the men ) or rooms with furnished kitchen blocks ( for the women ).

Some rooms are frescoed with histories of the city and portraits of its most illustrious men.