Sentence examples for offensive bombing from inspiring English sources

Following the landings, Allied aircraft conducted photographic reconnaissance, observed naval gunfire, reported on Ottoman troop movements, and conducted a small number of offensive bombing raids.

Furthermore, Chamberlain ordered the Royal Air Force -- which like many other military organizations, then and since, was enamored with the macho "cult of the offensive" -- to transfer resources from offensive strategic bombing into fighter air defense.

And in reacting to the offensive by bombing Hanoi and Haiphong and damaging Russian ships he has created the likelihood of a real clash with the Russians.

He added that he did not think that the remnants of the Taliban or Al Qaeda were capable of assembling a large fighting force, nine months after falling to the American-led offensive and bombing campaign.

Long-range Tu-22 bombers had launched the new air offensive with bombing runs Tuesday from Nojeh before flying back to a Russian base.

Israel resumed its Gaza offensive Wednesday, bombing heavily around suspected smuggling tunnels near the border with Egypt after a three-hour lull to allow in humanitarian aid.

During the following winter, the Luftwaffe maintained a bombing offensive, carrying out night-bombing attacks on Britain's larger cities.

Much of that was due to security concerns, as a fierce Taliban bombing offensive struck major cities, killing thousands.

Before yesterday's offensive, Israel's bombing campaign had killed more than 430 Palestinians and left hundreds injured.

"This is a time for cool resolve," Nato's spokesman, Jamie Shea, said as all Nato's 16 ambassadors met in Brussels to agree to restore the full-scale bombing offensive of up to 800 sorties a day, a scale which had slackened over the weekend in the belief that Serb withdrawal was imminent.

But little could be done as the Allied bombing offensive stepped up a gear.