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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.
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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
Damaging factories or infrastructure inside Russia might help boost Ukrainian morale, for example, as a small U.S. bombing raid against Tokyo in 1942 did for American morale in World War II.
—Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2024
The sixth of Masters of the Air’s nine episodes stays on the ground, following three characters on separate odysseys in the wake of last episode’s disastrous bombing raid.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
And the retreating Ukrainians may have fired the last major shots of the battle, targeting a trio of Russian air force fighter-bombers apparently angling for a bombing raid targeting the Ukrainian 110th Brigade and adjacent units.
—David Axe, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
The 100th, for instance, participated in its first bombing raid on June 25, just over two weeks after the men arrived in England.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
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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
Damaging factories or infrastructure inside Russia might help boost Ukrainian morale, for example, as a small U.S. bombing raid against Tokyo in 1942 did for American morale in World War II.
—Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2024
The sixth of Masters of the Air’s nine episodes stays on the ground, following three characters on separate odysseys in the wake of last episode’s disastrous bombing raid.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
And the retreating Ukrainians may have fired the last major shots of the battle, targeting a trio of Russian air force fighter-bombers apparently angling for a bombing raid targeting the Ukrainian 110th Brigade and adjacent units.
—David Axe, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
The 100th, for instance, participated in its first bombing raid on June 25, just over two weeks after the men arrived in England.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
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“Bombing raid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bombing%20raid. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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