While the attack on Taviers went in the Earl of Orkney launched his first line of English across the Petite Gheete in a determined attack against the barricaded villages of Offus and Autre-Eglise on the Allied right.

While Allied forces in 1940 lacked the experience to successfully develop these strategies, resulting in France's capitulation with heavy losses, they characterized later Allied operations.

While the Germans pressed forward, Stalin was confident of an eventual Allied victory over Germany.

While the Allies ' ability to out-produce the Axis is often attributed to the Allies having more access to natural resources, other factors, such as Germany and Japan's reluctance to employ women in the labour force, Allied strategic bombing, and Germany's late shift to a war economy contributed significantly.

While under German occupation, the city was devastated in 1944 during the Battle of Normandy in World War II ; 5, 000 people were killed and 12, 000 homes destroyed, mainly by Allied air attacks.

While stationed in London, the government contributed Norwegian forces to the Allied effort and ordered the Norwegian Merchant Fleet to assist in transportation.

While merchant shipping was suffering these high losses, Coastal Command had proven ineffective at countering air or sea attacks on Allied shipping.

While Lucas consolidated, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, the German commander in the Italian theatre, moved every spare unit to be found into a ring around the beachhead, where his gunners had a clear view of every Allied position.

While Ney was engaged in the glorious but futile 8, 000 man cavalry attack, unsupported by infantry or cannon, on Allied squares on the Brussels side of the ridge, he failed to take La Haye Sainte.

While the Allied propaganda from 1941 often referred to Finland as one of the Axis Powers, Finland was never a signatory to the German-Italian-Japanese Tripartite Pact of September 1940.

While the lion ′ s share of the blame fell on Fredendall, Kenneth Anderson — as overall commander of British, French, and American forces — bore at least partial responsibility for the failure to concentrate Allied armored units and integrate forces, which Generals Harmon, Ward, and Alexander noted had disintegrated into a piecemeal collection of disjointed units and commands.

While easterners hoped with a quadripartite Allied agreement there would be the chance that the Soviet Union will release its prey, many westerners had already come to another conclusion.

While the Treaty of Riga led to a two-decade stabilization of the Soviet-Polish conflict, the conflict was renewed during World War II and the treaty's borders were overridden by decision of that war's Allied powers.

While many missions involve Allied assaults on German targets others include elements of stealth and exploration.

While World War I nose art was usually embellished or extravagant squadron insignia, true nose art appeared during World War II, which is considered by many observers to be the golden age of the genre, with both Axis and Allied pilots taking part.

While General MacArthur had more Australian than US forces under his command in 1942, it has been claimed that he nonetheless decreed that all Australian victories would be reported as " Allied victories ", while American victories would be reported as American.

While only 15 Allied bombers were attacked, eight were successfully destroyed.

While there he met some Chinese men who had been sent to work for the Allied Armies.

While 1 SA and 50th Divisions were preparing for their withdrawal on the Via Balbia, Axis forces were wreaking havoc on the escarpment amongst Allied forces and Rommel dictated his 170mm guns to open fire from the escarpment down onto the Via Balbia as the South Africans and British were destroying their ammunition dumps in the Gazala Line Rommel tasked 15th and 21st Panzer with breaking north and severing the Via Balbia close to Elwet et Tamar, cutting off the two Divisions to the west.

While the British fleet was not vital to the war in the Pacific, it protected the flank of the Allied drive against Japan in 1945.

While Mistel pilots claimed hits, none of these match Allied records ; they may have been made against the hulk of the old French battleship Courbet, which had been included as a component of the Mulberry harbour at Arromanches and specially dressed up as a decoy by the Allies.

While the British 4th Division tackled the small French garrison there, the main Allied army followed Latour-Maubourg south while sending covering forces to watch the Badajoz garrison from Valverde and Albuera.

While he is commonly credited with having devised the tactic of suicide air attacks ( kamikaze ) on Allied aircraft carriers, the project in fact predated his tenure and was one that he originally opposed as " heresy ".

While the Reno Air Races keep this tradition alive, most air shows today primarily feature a series of aerial demos of short duration.

While the family lived in Mobile, his father worked as a sandblaster at Brookley Air Force Base.

While the U. S. Air Force had started a missile development program in 1946, it was not seriously pursued until reports surfaced about the progress of Soviet Union rocket technology and the threat it posed to the US.

While the majority of the missile launches came from United States Department of Defense footage of ICBM missile tests ( mainly Minuteman IIIs from Vandenberg Air Force Base adjacent to Lompoc, California ), all of the stock footage of missile launches were acquired from declassified DoD film libraries.

In February and March 1945, P-40 fighter pilots from 133 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force operating out of RCAF Patricia Bay ( Victoria, British Columbia ), intercepted and destroyed two fire balloons, On 21 February, Pilot Officer E. E. Maxwell While shot down a balloon, which landed on Sumas Mountain, in Washington State.

While creating the GRS, Cousteau only had at his disposal the two remaining Aqua-Lung prototypes made by l ' Air Liquide in 1943.

While a nuclear penetrator ( the " Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator ", or " RNEP ") was never built, the U. S. DOE was allotted budget to develop it, and tests were conducted by the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory.

While the primary focus of the Barksdale campus is to educate Air Force personnel, civilians are permitted to take part in the classes offered at the Barksdale campus if space is available.

While some may view DHL's selection of March Air Reserve Base as its new Southern California hub as a " bright spot ", the March JPA and March Global Port operations that brought DHL have been a matter of considerable controversy.

While on standby status, the airfield was redesignated as Moody Air Force Base on 13 January 1948.

While the first few " Beechcraft " were built in the vacant Cessna Aircraft plant, which had also closed during the depression, Beech later leased and then bought the Travel Air plant from Curtis Wright and moved his factory to this plant.

While looking at the glow to the south caused by the destruction of Miami, the family sees the nuclear explosion and mushroom cloud that destroys Tampa and MacDill Air Force Base, and which temporarily blinds Randy's niece, Peyton.

While at Cannon, the units conducted ground attack training for Air Force pilots.

While U. S. policy is to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons, Air Force officials acknowledge the presence of nuclear weapons on the base, including the W80-1 warhead.

While Mike Mentzer was serving in the US Air Force, he would work 12-hour shifts, and then follow that up with ' marathon workouts ', as was the accepted standard in those days.

While serving at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, Ed Roberts and Forrest M. Mims III decided to use their electronics background to produce small kits for model rocket hobbyists.

While serving as an Air Force major, Stealey founded MicroProse together with Sid Meier in 1982.

While under the aegis of the 366 WG, the 34th's B-1Bs were part of one of the Air Force ’ s composite wings, which also included C / D and E model F-15 Eagles, C / D model F-16 Fighting Falcons, and R model KC-135 Stratotankers.

While the unit ( as an administrative entity ) departed to save Air Force dollars for development of new follow-on B-1 munitions, the organization ’ s aircraft remained at Ellsworth ( in a flying reserve status ) under the able care of its sister unit, the 37th Bomb Squadron.

While the command retained a minimum peacetime force and the Air Ministry had every intention of maintaining it as such, the fleet was further reduced and suffered from procurement problems.

While in the Air Force, Spinney wrote and illustrated Harvey, a comic strip about military life.

While at CBS, Herrmann met Orson Welles, and wrote or arranged scores for Welles's Mercury Theatre on the Air and Campbell Playhouse series ( 1938 – 1940 ), which were radio adaptations of literature and film.

While closed to the public the museum's building was used for a variety of purposes connected to the war effort, such as a repair garage for government motor vehicles, a centre for Air Raid Precautions civil defence lectures and a fire fighting training school.