• Combat Mission is the name of a series of computer wargames simulating tactical battles. The series has progressed through two distinct game engines. The...
    37 KB (5,342 words) - 04:39, 15 August 2024
  • first game in the Combat Mission series, 2000 Combat Mission: Shock Force, 2007 Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy, 2011 Combat Missions, a 2002 American...
    560 bytes (102 words) - 12:12, 22 October 2019
  • Combat Missions was a one-hour-long reality television series produced by Mark Burnett and hosted by former Survivor castaway Rudy Boesch that aired from...
    40 KB (4,533 words) - 00:36, 2 September 2024
  • Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord is a 2000 computer wargame developed and published by Big Time Software. It is a simulation of tactical land battles in...
    25 KB (2,219 words) - 00:08, 2 February 2024
  • Combat Mission: Shock Force is a computer wargame by American studio Battlefront.com in the Combat Mission series of games that covers a fictional United...
    11 KB (913 words) - 09:13, 1 August 2024
  • Combat Mission II: Barbarossa to Berlin is a 2002 computer wargame developed and published by Battlefront.com. A turn-based computer game about tactical...
    8 KB (657 words) - 19:52, 1 November 2023
  • Combat Mission 3: Afrika Korps is a turn-based computer wargame about tactical battles in World War II. It is part of the Combat Mission series. It focuses...
    5 KB (351 words) - 20:03, 23 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lockheed MC-130
    flew its last Combat Talon I mission and began conversion to the CV-22 Osprey, ending 41 years of active service for the MC-130E Combat Talon I. Although...
    99 KB (12,370 words) - 00:39, 9 November 2024
  • Combat Mission: Black Sea is a computer wargame by American studio Battlefront.com in the Combat Mission series of games that covers a fictional Russian...
    8 KB (909 words) - 09:13, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq (2020–2021)
    S. combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021, with remaining U.S. troops serving in an advisory and assistance role. The U.S. combat mission formally concluded...
    31 KB (3,186 words) - 20:52, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Combat Readiness Medal
    Force or U.S. Space Force, who have accomplished sustained individual combat mission readiness in an Air Force or Space Force weapon system or who have undertaken...
    5 KB (509 words) - 02:08, 7 January 2023
  • Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy (CMBN) is a video game in the Combat Mission series. It is a simulation of infantry combat at the platoon and company...
    9 KB (1,000 words) - 02:16, 18 December 2023
  • of missions developed for the PlayStation VR headset, as well as several downloadable content packs offering new missions and content. Ace Combat 7 received...
    40 KB (4,513 words) - 23:56, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Rosenthal (USAAF officer)
    required to complete 25 combat missions in a combat tour to earn the right to rotate home, Rosenthal flew a total of 52 missions and was shot down twice...
    17 KB (1,607 words) - 18:15, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marine expeditionary unit
    reaction force ready to answer any crisis, whether it be disaster aid or a combat mission. Marine amphibious unit (MAU) was the name used until the late 1980s...
    16 KB (1,361 words) - 18:13, 10 February 2024
  • ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew 1,404 combat missions and participated in aerial combat on 825 separate occasions. He was credited with shooting...
    73 KB (9,422 words) - 15:44, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Catch-22
    only ever flown a single combat mission. After flying forty-four combat missions, Yossarian has become traumatized by aerial combat and witnessing the deaths...
    47 KB (5,767 words) - 06:57, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Memphis Belle (aircraft)
    United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) B-17 heavy bombers to complete 25 combat missions, after which the aircrew returned with the bomber to the United States...
    32 KB (3,785 words) - 14:57, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harry Herbert Crosby
    officer of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, he flew 32 combat missions and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (with two oak leaf clusters)...
    11 KB (1,123 words) - 01:20, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bombing of Bangkok in World War II
    occasions during World War II. It was also the target for the first combat mission by Boeing B-29 Superfortresses in June 1944. Allied bombing raids on...
    8 KB (990 words) - 18:03, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dissimilar air combat training
    Dissimilar air combat training (DACT) was introduced as a formal part of US air combat training after disappointing aerial combat exchange rates in the...
    9 KB (1,111 words) - 14:43, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve
    with which it coordinates various operations. The coalition ended its combat mission in Iraq in December 2021, but U.S. troops remain in the country in a...
    35 KB (2,471 words) - 16:12, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Littoral combat ship
    although their ability to perform these missions in practice has been called into question. Littoral combat ships are comparable to corvettes found in...
    138 KB (12,753 words) - 03:10, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air Combat Command
    more than 1,800 and number of Airmen to 123,240. Air Combat Command's mission is to provide air combat forces to the geographic Unified Combatant Commands...
    44 KB (2,684 words) - 00:02, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for 201st Fighter Squadron
    their last combat mission as a full squadron on August 26, escorting a convoy north of the Philippines. Not only did the pilots get into combat, but also...
    14 KB (1,253 words) - 09:10, 25 October 2024
  • to Combat Mission in Iraq, but Troops Will Not Leave". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 28, 2021. "US-led combat mission in...
    174 KB (2,799 words) - 17:58, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Don Brown (author)
    national bestseller, The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II (2017). Brown may be best known for his work as legal...
    30 KB (2,697 words) - 10:18, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amy McGrath
    the first woman to fly a combat mission for the Marine Corps, as well as the first to pilot the F/A-18 on a combat mission. During her 20 years of service...
    53 KB (4,361 words) - 07:52, 8 November 2024
  • bombers, they never served in combat. In June 1944, the 332nd Fighter Group began flying heavy bomber escort missions and, in July 1944, with the addition...
    119 KB (12,819 words) - 04:27, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Combat Action Badge
    The Combat Action Badge (CAB) is a United States military award given to soldiers of the U.S. Army of any rank and who are not members of an infantry,...
    22 KB (3,009 words) - 01:32, 8 March 2024