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1. Between her warning and Antonia's constant cerebral bombardment, Apollo's not sure of anything anymore
2. Roman ended the bombardment with one final upper-cut
3. Constant bombardment from the catapults achieved
4. “Who the hell’s shooting at us what’s going on? I thought we were just supposed to stroll up the beach after that bombardment that’s what they told us the bastards
5. “We could see the wire on the beach as we rowed in fucking bombardment hadn’t touched it and we could see the massive entanglements running into the sea
6. ” As the CSM finished speaking the first shells of the naval bombardment whistled overhead sounding like a train going by
7. As soon as the bombardment finished the whistles went and we set off on our country ramble with our rifles and bayonets held at high port
8. “There will be a naval bombardment of the Turkish positions and then we and the Lancashire Fusiliers who landed with us who have now officially been amalgamated into the 88th Brigade will attack our targets in fact let me tell you the whole of the 29th Division will be in the attack
9. It was now about 10:30am and I was just about to say something myself when the naval bombardment started up and although it was noisy it didn’t last long
10. The next morning after an even shorter naval bombardment that yesterday if that was possible I timed it at just fifteen minutes we set off to attack the Turkish lines once more at 10am
11. The naval bombardment went ahead at 10:15am and was a more intense and heavy one than the previous two at 10:45am the whistles shrilled and we set off across the ground that was now so familiar to us
12. The further forward we pushed the more we could see that the bombardment had hardly touched the Turkish positions and we were in deep shit again and out on a limb
13. We were stood waiting on the start line and we had seen the first bombardment start and it was continuing even now we were informed that there would be a second bombardment following a short tine after the first
14. This would take care of any Turks who manned the trenches again after the first bombardment had finished Elijah said
15. We stood in the reserve trenches as our Company had been designated in the second wave and as we looked foreword we could see the first wave of the 88th Brigade stood in the front line trenches waiting and at 2:20pm our artillery bombardment began
16. They had been dug deep into the chalk earth of Picardy and they contained massive bunkers that had been dug by Russian prisoners where the German troops could sit and wait out any bombardment unscathed but we did not know about theses at this time
17. He continued saying to us that we had nothing to fear from the Huns because the artillery bombardment was going to be of a duration and ferocity never seen in a battle before
18. “I don’t know but I will tell you something don’t listen to this shit about the bombardment they told us all this on Gallipoli and a lot of our lads got shot to pieces because they believed it
19. “I’m sure with the bombardment that we are being given that it will be alright after all everyone says that it will be a walkover
20. It was Saturday the 24th of July 1916 and this was the opening of our five day bombardment that would pave the way for the ‘Big Push’
21. We had to know if the bombardment had wiped out the German presence in the front line trenches and we prayed that it had
22. “I will tell you something else if the bombardment after all this time and concentration hasn’t touched their wire then its god help us when we go over the top lads
23. “So the bombardment has been extended for two days when the weather is supposed to pick up
24. That means we will now go over the top on Saturday the 1st of July and let’s just hope this two days of further bombardment finally sorts the Huns out
25. “The 1st of July that sounds like a good omen lets hope we get the luck”, and so the bombardment continued
26. “We know for a certainty the ship can’t survive that sort of bombardment all at once—even
27. On July 5th a second demand for the surrender of Santiago under threat of bombardment was rejected by Toral, and non-combatants were advised to leave the city
28. The more intelligent class roundly berated General Shafter, when his threat of bombardment was postponed from day to day
29. With Armstrong and Bengough I rode out to the advance ridges, to witness the effect of the bombardment
30. It is estimated that over three thousand people lost their lives through the humanity that allowed non-combatants to escape the puny bombardment which destroyed but a dozen houses
31. Through the little light that shone from the moon, I could clearly see the devastation from the bombardment of the city
32. The noise of the bombardment covered our comings and goings, eased my initial navigation woes, and was an interesting experiment in army-air co-operation in the field
33. We hadn’t noticed any, in the flares and well-lit scene of the bombardment
34. Stop the constant bombardment day in and day out of all the negative mass media news
35. You see, your bombardment attack exploited a big weakness in their defenses; they can only scan for living things
36. Most of the battles with the Moros had been sieges with artillery bombardment and hand-to-hand combat
37. A portion of the attackers had to divert their efforts to protecting the city from this bombardment, but the rest continued the attack
38. "More planetary bombardment rounds?"
39. In Syria, the city of Homs was still under bombardment
40. The city had been under heavy bombardment for the past couple of weeks and was expected to fall into the hands of the Revolutionary Army soon
41. All the training and discipline and soldierly skill vanished during the first minutes of bombardment
42. Then without warning the bombardment ceased
43. The result was a bombardment of information that sent him into a tailspin
44. We also did not consider aerial bombardment from spacecraft or the use of incendiaries
45. A scheduled bombardment of the village by the Allies on
46. After two weeks of bombardment and thousands of heavy rockets fired at Israel from South Lebanon, the Hezbollah seemed to be finally running out of rockets, to the relief of the stressed out Israeli citizens
47. After long months of war and intermittent rocket and missile bombardment from both Iran, South Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli leadership was certainly on edge and stressed to the breaking point, with the general Israeli population growing increasingly disillusioned and tired of a war their leaders had started and which was bringing them only fear, destruction and impending economic ruin
48. The barrage of spam should convince you of that as well as the constant bombardment of your inbox with faint attempts at humor or
49. ‘’…is completely devastated after nearly a year of incessant Israeli artillery and air bombardment
50. Then, about five in the afternoon, Nancy Laplante manifested herself again, this time from Haifa, where she filmed live a Hezbollah rocket bombardment on the city as rocket after rocket slammed in various areas of Haifa and its port
51. The bombardment of water on the
52. constant bombardment of cosmic rays from the universe at
53. I checked out the Sunday bombardment of ads in the paper and discovered that a few places had the same software for $39
54. Also, in line with the Time Patrol strategy of terminating this war with the utmost care in avoiding civilian casualties, be advised that we will not allow you to conduct any air or sea bombardment against Japanese population centers
55. Please understand that I was in 1940 a war orphan, after my whole extended family was killed in Berlin by a British air bombardment
56. As for Cavite, I want our stocks and equipment there dispersed out of the base as much as possible, to make it less vulnerable to bombardment
57. These pilots are lodging here in this hotel, like the pilots and aircrews of the 27th Bombardment Group, which arrived here with 52 Douglas A-24 dive bombers
58. He had no choice but to agree with her: the dive bombers that he had brought from the United States, along with over 800 men of the 27th Bombardment Group, were now effectively good only for local defense
59. I would like to discuss with you and Major Villamor how to coordinate your actions and those of the 27th Bombardment Group
60. That is if the latest American bombardment of the beachheads has not destroyed any of our supply dumps on the shore
61. Our Marines on Guadalcanal are under nearly constant air attacks, plus periodic naval bombardment by the Japanese, while our naval units around Guadalcanal often come under Japanese air and sea attack
62. For the first time in weeks, they had been spared from enemy air bombardment on two consecutive days of fair to good weather, and this since the arrival of the first female fighter pilots and their P-38s
63. Because of those women, there has been no Japanese air bombardment of the airfield in two days, and the soldiers around know that
64. ‘’Hum, either a resupply convoy or a bombardment force, or both
65. Unfortunately, the news are not good, as that armada is proving to be a bombardment force, rather than simply a resupply force of destroyers and transports
66. More importantly, the threat of naval bombardment against Henderson Field had been beaten back, potentially preventing heavy losses in both lives and equipment and preserving the airfield’s capacity as a frontline air base
67. As no German battle fleet existed to give off- shore bombardment, long range coastal batteries with ranges of between forty and fifty kilometers would have to be positioned around the Calais area
68. The battleship was now relegated to secondary duties such as offshore bombardment and convoy protection
69. In eight months the RAF had dropped four thousand tons of bombs and it was becoming increasingly difficult to protect the ships from this aerial bombardment
70. The spirit of camaraderie brought people together as never before and the effect was to toughen British resistance and increase their resolve to retaliate by aerial bombardment
71. He was determined to avenge the destruction of British cities by escalating aerial bombardment, and targeted the largest centres of population, which, he believed would "break the spirit of the German people”
72. When they entered the war, American strategists considered Britain's aerial bombardment as a complete waste of resources and viewed this as more of a lust for vengeance than a practical military plan of action
73. When the hour long bombardment lifted, the first waves of German troops then rolled forward
74. We hypothesize that the virus came from space, either from the main meteorite or from a subsequent bombardment - but it was during that period
75. It is claimed that air bombardment, sea blockade, and Russian intervention would have forced Japan to capitulate, regardless of atomic bombing
76. At Okinawa twenty five thousand Japanese troops hemmed in by naval and air bombardment had held off American forces six times larger for one hundred days
77. She had already been able to take some sensational pictures of the raid from the cockpit of the YC-10 and had even photographed the huge cloud of smoke and dust caused by the bombardment, but had been ordered back to her seat after she had photographed two parachutes opening over the old Forbidden City
78. To give you an idea of the severity of that bombardment, my experts have calculated that, on average, one 500 pound bomb fell each forty feet inside that leadership compound
79. They, like Nancy, ran and crouched behind an old, derelict pick-up truck parked along the sidewalk that had been the victim of a previous bombardment
80. The remaining troopships, lightly armed with weapons intended strictly for surface bombardment and with no lasers or space-to-space missiles, proved to be sitting ducks for the invisible laser beams that tore through them without mercy in mere seconds
81. ‘’Where is that bombardment coming from? From the group of Humans hiding in the asteroid belt?’’
82. What are the chances of my planet and my citizens in the underground shelters to survive a Morg bombardment, Admiral?’’
83. Let’s look first at how our bombers are presently flying bombardment missions over Germany, so that we can look at where the problems lay
84. Also, indiscriminate bombing of civilian population areas, as is so favored at this time by British Air Chief Marshall Harris of Bomber Command, is only going to prove that the German population is at least as resilient as the British population under bombardment
85. Your comrades are doing mostly well, but the constant missile bombardment on London, while at low cadence, is affecting their nerves as badly as those of Londoners
86. Ingrid didn’t dare comment on that, measuring in Jones’ tone how deeply that bombardment truly affected the British
87. Her own opposition to the bombardment of German civilians suddenly felt hypocritical to her
88. The 41st Bombardment Wing was sent earlier today to bomb a munitions factory in the Ruhr, but, apart from encountering the usual heavy German fighter and antiaircraft artillery response, was decimated by what seems to be a new German weapon
89. She then had decided on the spur of her emotions to join the Luftwaffe as a female auxiliary, so that she could make a contribution, even if only a small one, to defending her homeland against further enemy air bombardment