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Operation Linebacker II, sometimes referred to as the Christmas bombings and, in Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu in the air, [a] was a strategic bombing campaign conducted by the United States against targets in North Vietnam from 18 December to 29 December 1972, during the Vietnam War.
Liquefied gas Horton tanks similar to the six spherical tanks involved in the San Juanico disaster LPG bullet tanks. There were 48 tanks of this type in the Pemex plant. Note how this modern installation incorporates some of the lessons learned from San Juanico: an uncongested, well ventilated area, with the horizontal tanks in a parallel cluster configuration, which minimizes the effects of ...
Train 904 bombing, a 1984 terrorist attack in Italy; also called the Christmas massacre; Kravica attack (1993) during the Bosnian War, on Orthodox Christmas; Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings; Strasbourg Cathedral bombing plot, a 2000 attempted terrorism incident; Northwest Airlines Flight 253, a 2009 attempt to bomb an airplane over ...
An aerial map of the Conway Bombing and Gunnery Range sites and the projects undertaken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to identify potential risks and clean-up the WWII era range.
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Site after explosion. An evacuation of the area had been begun in the minutes following the explosion. [6] In the hours after the blast, about 30 people were reported to be trapped in debris, [6] and searches continued into the next day, as Pemex CEO Emilio Lozoya said there were indications that some people remained under the rubble.
U.S. General Anthony McAuliffe responded to a German command to surrender the besieged garrison at Bastogne with a brief reply centered on a full sheet of paper: "N U T S !" [30] President Roosevelt signed the Flood Control Act of 1944. A provisional national government separate from the Ferenc Szálasi regime was formed in Hungary. [31]