The Gaudi-style apartment complex at 23-29, rue Louis Favre, built by the city from 1982 to 1984 in a district behind the train station, is a curvilinear riot of chopped-off turrets, mosaics and polychrome moldings.
It blew the front roof plate and the center face plate off the turret, killed or wounded everyone in the turret, and started a fire that smouldered, despite efforts to put it out that had been thought to have been successful.
In the attack near this junction on Thursday night, not far from a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, a powerful bomb hidden in the sandy soil blasted through the floor of the Israeli tank, blowing off the turret and killing three of four soldiers inside.
A US tank commander led his soldiers in a Native American war dance and told them to take the US flags off their gun turrets, saying: "We will be entering Iraq as an army of liberation, not domination".
One shell from Gneisenau blew the roof off Monmouths forward turret and started a fire, causing an ammunition explosion that completely blew the turret off the ship.
FORWARD OPERATING BASE MAREZ, Iraq — When the 101st Airborne Division captured this base back in 2003, an American tank blasted the turret off a T-72 tank, catapulting it into the side of St. Elijah's Monastery.
Steck changed into a Mountain Hardwear T-shirt and shorts and went over to a turret off to the side, a kind of pyramid stuck upside down into the ground, for bouldering — that is, scrambling without being roped.
On 20 January 1989, off Vieques Island, Iowas Turret One fired six of the experimental shells using the supercharged powder bags.
Down by the bows, the cruiser swung hard to port, and passed behind Kormoran; during the turn, shells from the raider knocked "B" turret off Sydney.
Sean William Scott plays a supernatural pair of twins named Roland and Ronald Taverner, while Iraq war veteran Private Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake) narrates the whole mess from his perch in a mounted gun turret off the coast of Venice Beach.
Concrete blast walls, gun slits, and guard turrets sealed off Qaddafi and his inner circle from life in the capital.
