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  History of the 505th Bombardment Group
The formation on the Oita raid made a second pass at the target and was jumped by approximately 60 fighters.
Twenty-eight planes were airborne on the night of 9/10 June to sow mines in the fields of Love and Mike in the Shimonoseki Straits area.
On the night of 11/12 June, 26 planes sowed mines in minefields Mike and Zebra, located in Tsuruga Bay, was a new field for this Group.
home.att.net /~sallyann5/b29/505-history2.html   (1597 words)

  
 U.S.-Iraqi raid in Sadr City nets militia suspect - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Angry Shiites denounced the raid and a lawmaker from the district stood outside the Imam Ali hospital holding the body of a boy killed in the attack, vowing he would not return to parliament until all American forces were out of Iraq.
raid Tuesday in the east Baghdad grid of streets lined with tumbledown concrete block structures and vacant lots was the third in four days by U.S. and Iraqi forces, lightning assaults on the Mahdi Army of radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
After the Tuesday raid, legislator Saleh Al-Ukailli cradled the body of the dead child outside the hospital morgue and told reporters Iraq's government should be condemned for allowing such attacks.
usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2006-11-21-sadr-city-raid_x.htm?csp=34   (1058 words)

  
 Night raid kills Nek, four other militants: Wana operation -DAWN - Top Stories; 19 June, 2004
Night raid kills Nek, four other militants: Wana operation -DAWN - Top Stories; 19 June, 2004
Night raid kills Nek, four other militants: Wana operation
The attack was reportedly carried out at 10pm on Thursday night when Nek Mohammad was taking dinner along with his colleagues in the courtyard of the house of his long-time friend, the late Sher Zaman Ashrafkhel, an Afghan refugee from his Ahmadzai Wazir tribe.
www.dawn.com /2004/06/19/top1.htm   (866 words)

  
 Night raid in Baghdad - Salon
A few nights before Thanksgiving, I stood in a light but very cold rain on a dark residential street in Baghdad, loosely surrounded by two tanks, five Humvees, a prisoner transportation truck, 52 soldiers, three Iraqi translators, two armed canine handlers, and one bomb-sniffing dog named Elsa.
The soldiers -- representing both infantry and armor from the 1-36 Charlie Company of the 1st Armored Division -- were preparing to raid a house where a member of the resistance supposedly lived.
Out on the mission that night, I found myself feeling (not surprisingly) terrible for the Iraqi family mistakenly rousted from their home.
www.salon.com /news/feature/2003/12/04/raid/index.html   (1386 words)

  
 Night Raid
The primary goals of the raid were putting the enemy off balance and capturing enough prisoners to identify enemy units and gather intelligence.
Fairlamb recalls "the night was turned into day as our incendiary mortars hit the stone farm building, causing the entire complex to catch on fire.
I could see the outlines of Germans in the frames of windows as they tried to escape the burning buildings." The SS who made the stone farmhouse their CP were mowed down by the 551's withering fire as they attempted to flee the buildings.
www.thedropzone.org /europe/Bulge/fairlamb.html   (796 words)

  
 VN Boards - Drinal: Night Raid
Night Raids will get you flagged for the elemental planes and I have not seen may "ass Hats" there.
There are guilds with 70-80 people at these raids that have raided together for years and still have a hard time.
Many hundreds are elemental flagged, and 1700+ have joined their raids at one time or another.
vnboards.ign.com /Message.aspx?topic=62335764   (1210 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Dispatches from Iraq: Archives
There had been much talk and lead up to the night’s raid of five suspected insurgents in a village south of Mosul, but I suspected the somber mood was an equal part sleep deprivation.
The night’s mission was led by the Iraqi Army, but 4-23 provided the true brawn in the background.
The night was frigid and someone had allowed them flocked blankets to wrap around their bodies.
blogs.usatoday.com /iraq/2006/02/night_raid.html   (1248 words)

  
 Israel commandos seize Lebanese in night helicopter raid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The raid was the most northerly ground attack by Israeli forces since the start of the crisis on July 12, and coincided with regular Israeli army units stepping up operations in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah positions.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said that during the raid "several members of Hezbollah were hit while others have been taken prisoner and brought back to Israel." She said all the Israeli troops involved in the raid had returned to their base.
The raids, which mainly targeted a hospital at the northern entrance of Baalbek, the site of a world famous complex of Roman temples, met heavy resistance from Hezbollah gunmen, police said.
archive.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=135949   (727 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- U.S. night raid in northern Iraq nabs 260, one reported on most-wanted list
Five Iraqi special security forces offers also were caught in the raid – including two Iraqi army generals and a general from Saddam's security forces who had disguised himself as a shepherd.
Commanders for the 1st Brigade had been planning the raid, dubbed "Operation Planet X," for a week after receiving a tip the men were living in the area.
Two explosions were heard after the raid from an area close to the village.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20030515-0619-iraq-raid.html   (1015 words)

  
 Snipers Paradise
Recently, 1st Ranger Battalion conducted three company air assault raids with the terminal training objective to execute the raid at night under live-fire conditions in a "near total" IR spectrum.
In preparation for the night air assault raid, companies use a "building-block approach" to the collective trainup once the chain of command is satisfied that leaders and individual Rangers are proficient at their tasks.
A unit must be able to conduct the squad attack at night as well as they can during the day before they attempt to do the platoon attack drill, or progress to the company night live-fire air assault raid in the IR spectrum.
www.snipersparadise.com /training/ownthenight.htm   (5499 words)

  
 Olmert says 'tasty fishes' caught in night raid - World - theage.com.au
Weary soldiers return to Israel last night at the end of a major ground offensive in Lebanon, including the daring raid to capture alleged Hezbollah fighters.
The raid early yesterday came as about 6000 Israeli troops backed by tanks and aircraft poured into southern Lebanon, engaging in fierce clashes with Hezbollah guerillas on five fronts.
The raid was the deepest Israeli operation into Lebanon since 1994, and began a day on which Israel acted on Mr Olmert's pledge to intensify the conflict.
www.theage.com.au /news/world/tasty-fishes-caught-in-night-raid/2006/08/02/1154198206039.html   (802 words)

  
 Psychology Today: The Late Night Fridge Raid
But snacking throughout the night can be more than a lack of willpower--or illumination.
Night Eating Syndrome is a disorder in which individuals regularly wake one to three times a night to eat, consuming more than half their daily calories during these episodes.
Night eaters had a lowered response to a stress-inducing intravenous hormone, meaning their hormones were already overtaxed.
www.psychologytoday.com /articles/pto-20000103-000001.html   (300 words)

  
 U.S., Iraqis Seize 7 in Baghdad Raid, U.S., Iraqi Forces Seize 7 Militiamen in Dark-Of-Night Raid on Shiite Slum in ...
Al-Sadr is a major political backer of al-Maliki, who had rejected American demands to disband the heavily armed militias and their death squads that have carried out a brutal campaign of revenge attacks on Iraq's Sunni minority in a cycle of violence following the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine.
Al-Maliki, however, looked the other way during most recent joint U.S.-Iraqi raids, an about-face his aides said was prompted by anger over the U.S. soldier's abduction and a mass kidnapping carried out this month by suspected Mahdi Army gunmen.
After Tuesday's raid, a Shiite legislator Saleh Al-Ukailli cradled the body of the dead child outside the hospital morgue and angrily condemned Iraq's government for allowing such attacks.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/11/22/ap/world/mainD8LHRPI03.shtml   (927 words)

  
 FW: Bomber - A Night Raid
The book concentrates on the opposing personnel and actions of the leading bomber squadron of Lancasters and the radar and night fighters that oppose them, and their target.
The target is Krefeld, but the targeting goes awry when the Pathfinder aircraft are hit and drop their indicator bombs a minute or two late on a small town with no military value.
Per the ADC, the Lancaster BT is not used at night.
uncleted.jinak.cz /sbomb2.htm   (558 words)

  
 Cayman Net News: Late night police raid for $20 ticket
The Police Commissioner Stuart Kernohan is reportedly concerned over an incident involving armed officers who raided a house late at night because of an outstanding parking ticket.
The 11:00 pm raid was a demand-for-arrest visit from four, allegedly armed, police officers, to the home of a woman who said she “forgot to pay a parking fine.”
At around 11 O’ clock on Sunday night, (19 November), I was watching television with my wife, and the children were asleep.
www.caymannetnews.com /2005/11/975/raid.shtml   (956 words)

  
 Lexington Herald-Leader | 11/22/2006 | Abducted U.S. soldier sought in night raid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters swept into Baghdad's Sadr City Shiite slum in a night raid yesterday that netted seven militiamen, including one thought to know the whereabouts of an American soldier abducted nearly a month ago.
A lawmaker from the district stood outside the Imam Ali hospital, holding the body of a boy killed in the attack and vowing he would not return to parliament until all U.S. forces were out of Iraq.
The raid came just weeks after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, had taken on the role of protector of the sprawling Sadr City district by ordering the U.S. military to lift a blockade of the slum.
www.kentucky.com /mld/heraldleader/news/world/16072316.htm   (143 words)

  
 Night Raid On Berlin
He said that concentration was the secret of success in these raids; that as long as the aircraft stayed bunched, they would protect each other.
The work that was done last night was a massive blow of retribution, for all those who have fled from the sound of shots and blows on a stricken continent.
In the aircraft in which I flew, the men who flew and fought poured into my ears their comments on fighters, flak, and flares in the same tone that they would have used in reporting a host of daffodils.
history.sandiego.edu /gen/20th/b/murrow2.html   (2572 words)

  
 MidEastLog :: Embed pt. 4 (skipped 3) - night raid
We moved in relative silence, the soldiers relying on their night vision to scope out routes through dirt and gravel.
I had seen recordings of raids done in urban areas and I didn't think I would ever have the heart to participate.
Otherwise we will continue to come at night and ask." There was nothing more he could do here.
www.devo.com /mideastlog/index.php/b2pingbackspopup.php?p=115&pb=1   (1217 words)

  
 Anatomy of a night raid on Balad, Iraq, 22 Feb 04
Anatomy of a night raid on Balad, Iraq, 22 Feb 04
I was suited up to join Alpha 'Attack' company on a night time mission in a neighborhood just outside of Balad.
The objective this night of February 11 was the capture of one man, Fawzi Youniy (nicknamed 'Fuzzy Anus' by the troops), deemed responsible for funding and/or directing mortar attacks on the 1-8th's TOC.
www.notinourname.net /war/raid-22feb04.htm   (1307 words)

  
 FBI stages unprecedented raid on congressman's office
The raid on Jefferson’s office in the Rayburn House Office Building on Saturday night was a politically motivated breach of constitutional boundaries aimed at asserting the power of the executive branch over the legislative.
The choice of a Democrat as the target of the raid was not accidental, given the welter of bribery and influence-peddling scandals that have beset the Republicans in recent months.
To condemn the FBI raid in no way implies political support for Jefferson or suggests he is innocent of the corruption charges.
www.wsws.org /articles/2006/may2006/fbi-m24_prn.shtml   (1182 words)

  
 The Manila Times Internet Edition | WORLD > Belarussian protest ended in a night raid by riot police
About 100 fl-helmeted riot police arrived at October Square in the dead of night, and proceeded swiftly to carry or herd some 300-400 protesters into green trucks with barred windows.
The dramatic raid came on the fourth consecutive night that opposition activists—mostly students—peacefully occupied their tent camp on the vast, icy central square.
Among those detained in the police raid was a stepson of Milinkevich.
www.manilatimes.net /national/2006/mar/25/yehey/world/20060325wor5.html   (384 words)

  
 The London Blitz, 1940
In the worst single incident, 450 were killed when a bomb destroyed a school being used as an air raid shelter.
They came just after dark, and somehow you could sense from the quick, bitter firing of the guns that there was to be no monkey business this night.
The worst night of the Blitz occurred on its last night - May 10, 1941 - when 3,000 Londoners were killed.
www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /blitz.htm   (1128 words)

  
 RedOrbit - General - Israeli commandos raid Baalbek
At least 12 civilians were killed when Israeli air strikes hit the village of Jammaliyeh near Baalbek, including five family members who were found dead in the rubble of their house, security sources said.
One motorist was killed by a strike in Hermel to the north.
The raid on Baalbek, 100 km (60 miles) inside Lebanon, followed the expiry of a 48-hour bombing pause agreed by Israel under U.S. pressure after an air strike killed 54 civilians, including 37 children, in the southern village of Qana.
www.redorbit.com /news/general/598555/israeli_commandos_raid_baalbek/index.html?source=r_general   (742 words)

  
 The American Spectator
The air around the compound was thick and moist with the condensational blessings of a steadily humming Tigris flanking its rear quarter mightily and providing a welcome respite from the typical odors of a country that still burns the vast majority of its garbage in open pits.
We were gathered here because an informant had provided evidence that was determined after some debate to be credible enough to merit late night raids on several houses a terrorist cell leader might be lying low in.
At this first stop of the night, however, suspicion may remain, but there is no proof of any wrongdoing or contraband.
www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=9234   (1346 words)

  
 Genoa. Many eyewitness reports for police raid of Italy Indymedia Center - GSF. : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
They were present last night at the headquarters of the Genoa Social Forum, the umbrella group which has co-ordinated groups in Genoa committed to peaceful protest.
The police raided a GSF place where people were sleeping, and brutally beat dozens of people, some to unconsciousnes and coma, and THEN found some so-called weapons, mostly building construction materials, from the GSF building.
That night there were several at the policestation that sweared, knowing that if the 20.000 leaving Genova from Brignole station heard about this, they could face a true riot, uprising.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2001/07/102064.php   (7763 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Middle East | US under fire over Chalabi raid
The council adopted a statement criticising the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) for not giving advance notice of the raids and for what it described as the rough behaviour of Iraqi police during the raid.
An official attending the meeting told Reuters news agency that everyone present thought the coalition was behind the raid.
Mr Chalabi, meanwhile, told the Arab TV station al-Arabiya that he was proud to have become a target of the coalition.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3734443.stm   (538 words)

  
 US rejects Iraqi accusations on deadly night raid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The US military insisted that Iraqi special forces carried out a raid on an insurgent hideout, rejecting accusations American troops had launched a deadly attack on civilians in a mosque.
The US military insisted that Iraqi special forces carried out a raid on an insurgent hideout that killed over a dozen people, rejecting accusations American troops had launched a deadly attack on civilians in a mosque.
Amid a swirl of conflicting versions of the events late Sunday, the US military said Iraqi special forces raided a meeting hall in northeast Baghdad being used by an insurgent cell and killed 16 people and detained 18 others.
www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=115391   (905 words)

  
 The Peenemunde Raid: The Night of 17-18 August 1943 - Wal-Mart
On the night of 17-18 August 1943, RAF Bomber Command attacked a remote research establishment on the German Baltic coast.
But the night sky was so cloudless that the British bombers presented an easy target for German night fighters, and over 40 were lost.
Martin Middlebrook draws on the memories of over 400 people involved in the dramatic events on that night: RAF and Luftwaffe aircrew, German personnel at the research site and foreign laborers who had been forced to work there.
www.walmart.com /catalog/product.gsp?product_id=4723594   (605 words)

  
 Night raid in Baghdad - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
That night, on the mission, I followed the soldiers down the block to raid a second house.
The intelligence they had told them that a young man living in the house might be working with al-Qaida.
On 90 percent of the house raids, the soldiers find nothing more than confused families and a couple of guns used for home protection.
dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2003/12/04/raid/index_np.html?pn=2   (1439 words)

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