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"But he'd need better visibility and a dry period for a successful incendiary attack.

Sixty-seven of Japan's largest cities lost significant area to incendiary attacks.

She was later wounded in an incendiary attack.

The malefactors in both the grammatical and incendiary attacks remain at large.

Consequently, it turned to devastating low altitude incendiary attacks.

After that, operations were principally concerned with incendiary attacks against urban-industrial areas of Japan.

LeMay referred to his nighttime incendiary attacks as "fire jobs."

Two incendiary attacks, one by day and one by night, left 5.9 square miles of the city devastated.

He initiated low-level night incendiary attacks on Japanese industrial centers, including Tokyo.

Destroyed by an incendiary attack at the Kunsthaus, Zurich, in 1985.

Sixteen multi-city incendiary attacks had been conducted by the end of the war (an average of two per week), and these targeted 58 cities.

Other actions included incendiary attacks on farms, barns and hayricks in the dead of night, as it was easier then to avoid detection.

Initially the complex novel was not successfully received; it was either ignored or criticized as an incendiary attack on Russian literature.

Continued strategic bombing raids and incendiary attacks until Japanese Capitulation in August 1945.

There'd been a few incendiary attacks on booth attendants-a spritz of something flammable and they got turned into crispy critters.

In 1402 the cathedral precinct again suffered an incendiary attack by the followers of the Lord of the Isles.

The centre was virtually destroyed in January 1991 in an IRA incendiary attack.

Next came an incendiary attack: the Chinese threw lumber down on the Japanese, and poured petroleum on it, which they then ignited.

Except for one or two bombs dropped on separate occasions by B-29's, Hiroshima had not been subjected to heavy incendiary attacks.

The most deadly single bombing raid in all history was Operation Meetinghouse, an incendiary attack that killed some 100,000 Tokyo residents in one night.

On 25 August 1940, the roof and interior of the old Market Hall in the Bull Ring was destroyed by an incendiary attack.

For example, Toyama, an urban area of 128,000, was nearly fully destroyed, and incendiary attacks on Tokyo claimed the lives of 100,000 people.

In addition to incendiary attacks, Kobe was the target of a B-29 precision attack on industry, three mine-laying operations and one fighter-bomber sweep:

"Because we initiated an incendiary attack against the Na- tionalist army on Quemoy, and they are quiet," Sun replied.

The target of the recent experimental incendiary attack was a 1,300-acre stand of alpine fir trees deemed a hindrance to the growth of more desirable trees.