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IndyCar’s greatest television competition on Sunday, June 22 didn’t come from a competing sport, but from the major news developments with the United States bombing raid of nuclear facilities in Iran.
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Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Iranian officials had promised to strike back after an American bombing raid on Saturday hit three nuclear program sites inside Iran.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 23 June 2025
The United States struck three nuclear facilities in Iran in a stealth bombing raid that began on June 21.
—Donovan Slack, USA Today, 22 June 2025
Sidney Burke, 22, were carrying out a low-altitude bombing raid in Meiktila, Burma, on Aug. 3, 1943, the DPAA said.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
Three airmen who died during a World War II bombing raid have been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday.
U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Charles W. McCook, 23, U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Henry J. Carlin, 27, and U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
In Armadillo, meanwhile, a Danish officer provides cash to a man whose house was leveled and whose mother and daughter were killed in a NATO bombing raid.
—Christopher Sims, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
Although Ulm was destroyed by a World War II bombing raid in 1944, the church itself remained upright.
—Stefanie Dazio and Pietro De Cristofaro, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
There were firefighters tackling a blaze in the aftermath of a bombing raid.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024
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Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Iranian officials had promised to strike back after an American bombing raid on Saturday hit three nuclear program sites inside Iran.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 23 June 2025
The United States struck three nuclear facilities in Iran in a stealth bombing raid that began on June 21.
—Donovan Slack, USA Today, 22 June 2025
Sidney Burke, 22, were carrying out a low-altitude bombing raid in Meiktila, Burma, on Aug. 3, 1943, the DPAA said.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
Three airmen who died during a World War II bombing raid have been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday.
U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Charles W. McCook, 23, U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Henry J. Carlin, 27, and U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
In Armadillo, meanwhile, a Danish officer provides cash to a man whose house was leveled and whose mother and daughter were killed in a NATO bombing raid.
—Christopher Sims, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
Although Ulm was destroyed by a World War II bombing raid in 1944, the church itself remained upright.
—Stefanie Dazio and Pietro De Cristofaro, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
There were firefighters tackling a blaze in the aftermath of a bombing raid.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Bombing raid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bombing%20raid. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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