airborne raid

Their mission is to collect intelligence on German military strength in the area, prior to an airborne raid.

The first was airborne raid sets, installed on fighters.

On 6 December the Japanese tried to disrupt operations on Leyte by conducting two small-scale airborne raids.

Reichert thought that it was an airborne raid on his headquarters and that was the report he passed on to his corps commander.

Israel responded with aerial bombardments, airborne raids on Egyptian military positions, and aerial strikes against strategic facilities in Egypt.

Operation Eiche was launched on 12 September and included an airborne raid on Gran Sasso.

Pegasus Bridge - D-Day: The Daring British Airborne Raid.

In February-early March 1945, Massachusetts provided anti-aircraft cover for airborne raids on Honshū, Iwo Jima and Kyushu.

It was an airborne raid on Viet Minh supply depots near Lang Son, involving parachute units of the French and Vietnamese National Armies.

Dirani, head of the pro-Iranian "Resistance of the Faithful," was snatched from his home by Israeli commandos in a daring airborne raid in Lebanon on Saturday.

Three years later, in an episode devastating to both of them, Mr. Netanayhu's older brother, Yonatan, a commando, was killed in the airborne raid to free hostages in Entebbe, Uganda.

Anger and shock gripped this village in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley after the abduction of a pro-Iranian Moslem guerrilla chief in a slick Israeli pre-dawn airborne raid Saturday.

The questioning of the 46-year-old, head of the pro-Iranian "Resistance of the Faithful" who was snatched in a daring airborne raid in Lebanon on Saturday, was taking place at an undisclosed location, the officials said.

On February 23, 1945, US forces of the First Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment led a combined amphibious and airborne raid against the Japanese prison of war camp, rescuing over 2,000 allied nationals.

In April-May 1944, the SS launched the daring airborne Raid on Drvar aimed at capturing Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the commander-in-chief of the Yugoslav Partisans, as well as disrupting their leadership and command structure.

Mors played a key role in planning the raid, and participated as commander of the secondary force that secured the lower cable-car station at the foot of the Gran Sasso mountain as the airborne raid was underway at the mountain top, where Mussolini was held.

The success of the first British airborne raid, Operation Colossus, prompted the War Office to expand the airborne force through the creation of the Parachute Regiment, and to develop plans to convert several infantry battalions into parachute and glider battalions.

During the Second World War, Deane-Drummond served in Europe and in North Africa; he volunteered for Commando duty, and was assigned as second-in-command of the force which participated in Operation Colossus, an airborne raid on southern Italy in February 1941.