Sentence examples for heavy raid from inspiring English sources

In June 1918 No 16 train was hit by a bomb during a heavy raid in Etaples and it caught fire but luckily nobody was killed or badly injured.

Survivor Denis Grout recalled the scene after a heavy raid.

The preferred site is the city's Queen Victoria Square, which saw many buildings destroyed in a heavy raid in May 1941.

After one heavy raid on Tokyo in March 1945, the resulting conflagration destroyed a quarter of the predominately wooden buildings.

Air raids on Bardia resumed in the lead-up to the ground assault, with 100 bombing sorties flown against Bardia between 31 December 1940 and 2 January 1941, climaxing with a particularly heavy raid by Vickers Wellington bombers of No. 70 Squadron RAF and Bristol Bombay bombers of No. 216 Squadron RAF on the night of 2/3 January 1941.

The capture came despite heavy raids by Saudi warplanes.

"They launched heavy raids on us which led to the destruction of the cars and the death of many individuals who were with us.

Despite the heavy raids that violence and segregation made upon the hope of black freedom, large areas of possibility remained untouched.

On the video, which the BBC has not been able to fully authenticate, one resident is heard telling an inspector of heavy raids on the district, with "over 600 canister strikes...12 tanks, 100 soldiers".

The Allied air forces conducted heavy raids on airfields in the Halmaheras, Celebes, Ceram, Ambon, Boeroe and other areas.

The carriers had just completed three days of heavy raids against Japanese airfields, suppressing enemy aircraft during the American amphibious operations against Mindoro in the Philippines.