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3 unusual facts about Combat mission


Combat mission

Military operation, the coordinated military actions of a state in response to a developing situation

Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy

Dozens of detailed US and German weapons, from small arms like the M1 Garand rifle or MP40 machinepistol, to large crew-served weapons such as mortars and AT Guns.

Combat Mission: Shock Force

Each scenario in the game contains forces drawn from either the US or Syrian Regular Army units utilizing Soviet-bloc equipment such as AK-47 assault rifles and T-72 tanks, with "blue vs. blue" and "red vs. red" scenarios also possible.



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116th Air Control Wing

The 353d's flew its last combat mission (its 448th) on 25 April 1945, when it escorted Royal Air Force and 398th Bombardment Group bombers attacking Berchtesgaden and Pilsen.

343d Bomb Squadron

The squadron flew its first combat mission on 7 August, striking marshalling yards at Pyongyang, capital of North Korea.

401st Air Expeditionary Group

The group flew its last combat mission on 20 April 1945 against Brandenberg.

448th Fighter-Bomber Group

The group flew its last combat mission on 25 April, attacking a marshalling yard at Salzburg.

Assigned to RAF Seething in late 1943, the group flew its last combat mission on 25 April 1945, attacking a marshalling yard at Salzburg, Austria.

44th Bombardment Squadron

Continued aerial assaults until the Japanese Capitulation in August 1945, final combat mission taking place on August 9/10th attacking the Hikari Naval Arsenal.

612th Tactical Fighter Squadron

The squadron flew its last combat mission on 20 April 1945 against Brandenberg.

676th Bombardment Squadron

The squadron flew its first combat mission on 5 June 1944 against the Makasan railroad yards at Bangkok, Thailand.

711th Special Operations Squadron

It flew its first combat mission on 24 December 1943 against a V-1 missile site near Saint-Omer in Northern France.

92d Operations Group

It tested the secret Disney rocket-assisted-bomb experimental mission early in 1945, and led the Eighth Air Force on its last combat mission of the war.

962d Airborne Air Control Squadron

The squadron flew its last combat mission, an attack on marshalling yards at Nauen, on 20 April 1945.

98th Operations Group

It flew its first combat mission on 7 August, striking marshalling yards at Pyongyang, capital of North Korea.

Academy of Law

However cadets do have to go outside in groups for their "Hotdog Run," a combat mission into the Cursed Earth radiation desert.

Arakcheev and Khudyakov case

According to the Chechen victims' lawyer Ludmila Tikhomirova the accused had done these crimes not during the combat mission, but in the free time while they had been drunk driving around Grozny.

Charra Airfield

The first combat mission by the group finally took place on 5 June when squadrons of the group took off from India to attack the Makasan railroad yards at Bangkok, Thailand.

RAF Attlebridge

The 466th flew last combat mission on 25 April 1945, striking a transformer station at Traunstein.

RAF Deopham Green

The 452d Bomb Group flew its last combat mission of World War II in Europe on 21 April, striking marshalling yards at Ingolstadt.

RAF Nuthampstead

The 398th flew its last combat mission, attacking an airfield in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, on 25 April 1945.

Roy Cullen

In opposition, Cullen broke with the Liberal caucus in 2007 to vote with Stephen Harper's Conservative government in favour of extending Canada's NATO-authorized combat mission in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan for two years.

United States Marine Corps rank insignia

Musicians in the "President's Own United States Marine Band" (commonly yet incorrectly referred to simply as The United States Marine Band) wear insignia with the crossed rifles replaced by a lyre to denote their lack of a combat mission; full-service Marines who are attached to the 10 Fleet Marine Force Bands continue to wear their normal rank insignia.

Vanderbilt Stadium

The old field was re-christened Curry Field, in honor of Irby "Rabbit" Curry, a standout football player from 1914–16, who left Vanderbilt to serve in the American Expeditionary Force to Europe in World War I and was killed while flying a combat mission over France in 1918.

XX Bomber Command

Wolfe launched the first B–29 Superfortress combat mission on June 5, 1944, against Japanese railroad facilities at Bangkok, Thailand, about 1,000 miles away.