The campaign lasted until May 1941 and involved dropping 50,000 tonnes of bombs.
The South Georgia programme involved dropping hundreds of tonnes of poisoned bait on areas known to be infested with rodents.
Such comments amount to meaningless rhetoric if Libya, a conflict that simply involved dropping hundreds of (albeit "smart") bombs, is taken as a yardstick.
A decade-long effort to rid the pests involved dropping more than 300 tonnes of poisoned bait around the island — by helicopter and by hand.
It involved dropping a detector down a shaft within 40 metres of an exploding nuclear bomb, which would act as a source of neutrinos.
It involved dropping a four-ton metal boiler from a height of about 14 meters, or 49 feet, every 40 minutes for three days, reverberating through the ground to a nearby village.
She wears the same outfit over and over, yet she is also known for her sporadic, voracious shopping sprees, one of which involved dropping $400,000 on 70 fur coats for herself and late husband John Lennon at Bergdorf Goodman.
In years gone by, one of my Easter traditions involved dropping into fabric at some point over the weekend.
The ultimate goal for Eustace involved dropping through the earth's stratosphere without an outside shell for support thus launching him "higher than any man has gone without a rocket ship". .
