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Juno Beach (section Preliminary bombardment)Courseulles, Bernières and Saint-Aubin. It was hoped that the preliminary naval and air bombardments would soften up the beach defences and destroy coastal strong...72 KB (10,127 words) - 08:07, 15 October 2024
Barrage (artillery) (redirect from Creeping bombardment)the infantry assault could be far more effective than weeks of preliminary bombardment. Barrages remained in use in World War II and later, but only as...32 KB (4,643 words) - 18:41, 12 September 2024
be retaken during the main attack. A preliminary bombardment began on 11 August and the destructive bombardment began two days later but poor weather...120 KB (16,681 words) - 20:04, 18 November 2024
Battle of Kursk (section Preliminary actions)breakthrough was extremely unlikely. Following a preliminary bombardment and Red Army counter bombardments, the 9th Army opened its attack at 05:30 on 5...167 KB (20,279 words) - 22:18, 20 November 2024
effect without alerting the enemy with ranging shots or a lengthy preliminary bombardment. The guns are laid using detailed calculations and surveys to increase...3 KB (437 words) - 19:06, 28 September 2022
Battle of Iwo Jima (section Pre-landing bombardment)Forces began shore bombardment and air raids against Iwo Jima, which would become the longest and most intense preliminary bombardments in the Pacific Theater...105 KB (11,671 words) - 18:25, 27 November 2024
The preliminary bombardment was stretched over three days—initially confined to a limited "slow shoot", building up to a final intense bombardment an hour...42 KB (5,455 words) - 13:14, 10 February 2024
location of the offensive, the weight of the attack and of the preliminary bombardment was an unpleasant surprise. The Germans were also fortunate in...39 KB (4,719 words) - 18:09, 21 November 2024
were to be used to observe the intermittent bombardment, which began in mid-June and the preliminary bombardment, which commenced on 24 June. Low cloud and...128 KB (17,896 words) - 14:59, 14 November 2024
battle was a prelude to the much larger Third Battle of Ypres, the preliminary bombardment for which began on 11 July 1917. In 1916, the British planned to...103 KB (14,715 words) - 23:40, 27 October 2024
Division attacking east from Nijmegen into Germany. Included in the preliminary bombardment, which ended at 09:30, were 16 medium regiments (13 Royal Artillery...8 KB (951 words) - 22:42, 23 July 2023
the occupation of Bataan and Corregidor on 13 February, firing a preliminary bombardment, giving fire support on call, and covering minesweepers opening...15 KB (1,649 words) - 14:18, 15 October 2024
Operation Citadel (section Preliminary actions)breakthrough extremely unlikely. Following a preliminary bombardment and Red Army counter bombardments, the 9th Army opened its attack at 05:30 on 5...75 KB (9,459 words) - 08:23, 22 October 2024- largest in the British sector since September and had a seven-day preliminary bombardment, which was twice as heavy as that of 1 July. The capture of Beaumont...70 KB (10,365 words) - 06:19, 13 May 2024
ended, Hamilton sailed from Eniwetok on 9 July to take part in the preliminary bombardment and sweeping activities at Guam. This time a long period on the...14 KB (1,760 words) - 07:36, 1 November 2023
Battle of Amiens (1918) (section Preliminaries)available in large numbers) to achieve surprise by avoiding a preliminary bombardment. The French First Army lacked tanks and would be forced to bombard...38 KB (4,653 words) - 10:34, 12 November 2024
to hit the front position, parts of which were untouched by the preliminary bombardment. As signs of an Allied offensive increased during 1916, the lessons...32 KB (4,398 words) - 02:32, 10 November 2024
language news program 'Bad News' on a YouTube channel Artpodgotovka ("preliminary bombardment"). In May 2016 Maltsev won the primary elections of the People's...24 KB (3,272 words) - 01:28, 10 November 2024- On 4 November 12th A&SH raided Boyau Hill after three days of preliminary bombardment. Because the enemy were still holding the trenches in strength...46 KB (5,276 words) - 14:31, 10 November 2024
invasion of the Marianas, Operation Forager, called for heavy preliminary bombardment, first by carrier aircraft and U.S. Army Air Forces bombers based...27 KB (2,678 words) - 01:30, 1 November 2024
- launched. As the preliminary bombardment had been so successful at Messines it was decided again to use a long preliminary bombardment lasting 10 days
- 70 It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation
- instrumentation in the laboratory. 1989 saw the first demonstration of fast atom bombardment ionization with Tandem Mass Spectroscopy as applied towards the identification