| NOUN | a high explosive bomb | high explosive bombs | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- During this raid, a high explosive bomb landed on Building 3 of Devon Mansions, destroying a 20-metre section of the building between Blocks 12 and 13.
- ] high explosive bomb landed on the east side of the square, resulting in houses on the south side being damaged.
- On the night of 14/15 November 1940, following a heavy Luftwaffe air raid consisting of 437 aircraft dropping 394 tons of high explosives and 127 parachute mines (part of the "Coventry Blitz"), Moss led two rescue attempts on houses which had been destroyed by a high explosive bomb.
- ... 1949) went out to help extinguish the resulting fires and was amongst those killed, at Number 22, when a high-explosive bomb fell.
- The 52-pound cast-iron fin-stabilised high explosive bomb carried the percussion primer at the base in the intersection of the four vanes (fins), consisting of a specially loaded blank .303 rifle cartridge.
- high-explosive bomb was dropped in the tented area which accommodated the reserve flight pilots and other staff.
- The SC 250 ("Sprengbombe Cylindrisch 250") was an air-dropped general purpose high-explosive bomb built by Germany during World War II and used extensively during that period.
- If a fire catches, it could spread, taking in adjacent buildings that would have been largely unaffected by a high explosive bomb.
- (Swedish term for a high-explosive bomb dropped by aircraft), and have the capacity to destroy a large number of targets attacking in mass.
- The church was struck by a fire bomb during an Allied air raid in 1943 and damaged repeatedly until 1945 when a high explosive bomb caused the collapse of parts of the vaults of the northern aisle.
- In May 1941, during the London Blitz a 500 lb German high explosive bomb crashed through the roof of St.
- On 10 January 1941 the buildings of Domus Dei were partially destroyed in an attack by German bombers, when all the stained glass windows were blown out and the nave was rendered roofless by incendiary bombs and a single high explosive bomb.
- Nazi Luftwaffe high explosive bomb landed on the east side of the square during the Bath Blitz.
- Stinkie finally throws a high explosive bomb, which lands in the mouth of Buster, the Scorpions' dog.
- On the night of 24 August 1940 the second hall and its environs were slightly damaged by a high explosive bomb (the first to fall on London in the Second World War) but on the night of 29 December 1940 the Hall and surrounding area were almost totally destroyed by incendiary bombs which started fires that raged for three days.
- During one of the bomb raids in 1941 a high-explosive bomb fell into the pond near the house.
- ] high explosive bomb landed on the east side of Queen Square, resulting in houses on the south side being damaged and the Francis Hotel losing [...] of its frontage.
- They noted that although the blast wave was of about the same pressure as that of a high-explosive bomb, the duration of the effect was longer and that brick buildings were collapsed as far as [...] at Hiroshima and [...] at Nagasaki, while traditional wood houses were about the same, while reinforced-concrete structures suffered structural damage or collapse up to [...] at Hiroshima and [...] at Nagasaki.
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