Sentence examples for part in a raid on from inspiring English sources

The car was owned by World War Two pilot Charles Blackham, who took part in a raid on Adolf Hitler's Bavarian retreat, and was one of just six of its kind made by Bentley.

Last May, he took part in a raid on a the militant group Fatah al Islam in the northern city of Tripoli.

He took part in a raid on Beirut's airport in 1968 and fought in the 1973 Middle East war.

On 10/11 May, his Lancasters took part in a raid on Lille, losing three of their number.

In January, she sortied for air strikes on the Marshall Islands, and in February she took part in a raid on Wake Island.

In April 1943, seven men of No. 14 (Arctic) Commando took part in a raid on German shipping near Haugesund code named Operation Checkmate.

The tape was seized in April as part of a raid on Mr. Thompson's home that state prosecutors said yielded child pornography.

The Chinook had just been in a firefight, part of a raid on "a compound believed to harbor drug traffickers," the Times reported, adding that the military "was '98percentt sure' that insurgents did not cause the crash" — it was just one of those accidents you might not foresee in a war game.

The original idea was that they would recover Han Solo in the early part of the story and that he would then die in the middle part of the film in a raid on an Imperial base.

By John Andrew Rice The New Yorker, October 14, 1944 P. 70 Seeing a newspaper photograph of a young soldier who had been decorated for his part in a bombing raid on Zagreb, author recognized the boy as one belonging to a former cleaning woman of his, a Mrs. Cracovaner.

The New Yorker, October 14, 1944 P. 70 Seeing a newspaper photograph of a young soldier who had been decorated for his part in a bombing raid on Zagreb, author recognized the boy as one belonging to a former cleaning woman of his, a Mrs. Cracovaner.