define America's special operations forces. He is renowned for the "Makin Island raid" in 1942, and his raiders' "Long Patrol" (aka Carlson's patrol) behind...

221 U.S. Marines of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion raided Makin from two submarines. The raid was intended by the Americans to confuse the Japanese...

The air raid on Bari (German: Luftangriff auf den Hafen von Bari, Italian: Bombardamento di Bari) was an air attack by German bombers on Allied forces...

Marine Raiders, or "Carlson's Raiders") she arrived off Makin Atoll on 16 August to stage a raid to divert Japanese attention from the Solomon Islands....

operation of the Holocaust. In order to reduce resistance, the ghetto would be raided without warning, usually in the early morning, and the extent of the operation...

a raid aimed at creating a maximum of destruction in a selected town since the summer of 1940, and the opportunity was given after the German raid on...

Pilkada di Semarang Makin Bertambah". Metrotvnews. Retrieved 23 August 2024. Annizar, Baihaqi (27 August 2024). Situmorang, Anggun P (ed.). "Demo di Semarang...

civilian morale. A devastating bombing raid on Tokyo of 9–10 March was the deadliest conventional bombing raid in history. In May 1945, Australian troops...

inaccuracies and omissions. Tobruk is a 1967 film which dramatised raids on the Germans. Raid on Rommel is a 1971 movie that used some of the earlier film from...

Nautilus to transport and land Marine Raiders on Makin Island in the Gilbert Islands for the Makin Raid. This move was designed to relieve pressure on American...

of Japanese Raid on Pearl Harbor, 7 December, 1941 (Report), Enclosure (C) Damages Sustained by Ships as a Results of the Japanese Raid, December 7,...

the Vice President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison Sarah Makin Assistant to the Vice President and Director of Communications Jarrod Agen...

fifty sorties on 13 and 14 February; Gladiators and Hurricanes intercepted a raid by fifty Italian aircraft on 28 February, the RAF claiming 27 aircraft for...

The Surrender at Caserta (Italian: Resa di Caserta, pronounced [ˈreːza di kaˈzɛrta]) of 29 April 1945 was the written agreement that formalized the surrender...

The Committee of National Liberation for Northern Italy (Italian: Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia, CLNAI) was set up in February 1944 by partisans...

These three subdivisions are further divided into eight Tehsils: Ladha, Makin, Sararogha, Sarwakai, Tiarza, Wanna, Barmal, and Toi Khula. The Waziristan...

"Monte Rosa" Divisions. The battle was fought around the town of Fornovo di Taro, about 8 miles (13 km) to the southwest of Parma, Italy. The Allies defeated...

1950s cite 434,000 air raid dead (410,000 in Germany, 24,000 in) Austria The figure cited by Overy (2013) is 353,000 air raid dead. (b) The number of...

popularly known as the Republic of Salò (Italian: Repubblica di Salò, Italian: [reˈpubblika di saˈlɔ]), was a German puppet state and fascist rump state...

The Raid on Grand Harbour (Operazione MALTA-2), was an Italian raid against Allied shipping in Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta in the early morning of...

in Guadalcanal Campaign United States Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders Ray Enright Marine Raiders in the Central Pacific United...

fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in aerial raids; the battle epitomized urban warfare, being the single largest and costliest...

Jalo oasis (Operation Nicety) and Barce (Operation Caravan). The Tobruk raid was an Allied disaster; the British lost several hundred men killed and captured...

raiders and supplying guerrillas in World War II, famously in the Makin Island raid but also in the Philippines. After the unsuccessful attempts outlined...

(WDF) began Operation Compass, a five-day raid against the fortified Italian camps outside Sidi Barrani. The raid succeeded and the few units of the 10th...

looting and destruction of civilian property in occupied territories. The raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby, which took place on December 16, 1914...

Institution, Whitehall Yard, Volume 57, Issue 2. p. 997. William James Makin (1935). War Over Ethiopia. p. 227. Ben-Ghiat, p. 310 Omar, Mohamed (2001)...

prior to the expected American assault as the Navy mistook the American air raid as the prelude to an American landing while during the Battle of Saipan comfort...

un disegno di sradicamento della presenza italiana da quella che era, e cessò di essere, la Venezia Giulia. Vi fu dunque un moto di odio e di furia sanguinaria...

German Luftwaffe and Italian Regia Aeronautica flew a total of 3,000 bombing raids over two years, dropping 6,700 tons of bombs on the Grand Harbour area alone...