| He said that helicopter gunships and navy patrol boats had strafed the communities, and that scores of civilians had been killed. |
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| They told us about how their houses had been destroyed and how they had been strafed by helicopter gunships. |
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| Helicopter gunships and jet fighters systematically strafed the village, reportedly using information from spy satellites for targeting. |
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| The first mission of the Stalingrad set has you crossing the Volga towards the ruined city while being strafed by Stuka dive bombers. |
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| Then the village is burned to the ground as those trying to escape are bombed and strafed by aircraft. |
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| Erwin Rommel was one such victim, nearly being killed when his car was strafed by an Allied fighter. |
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| Several enemy aircraft were strafed and destroyed and airfield buildings were attacked. |
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| The second flight made an S-turn and strafed the deck and set the ship on fire. |
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| To get here they had traversed mile after mile of rugged terrain while strafed by aircraft. |
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| Cities and villages are being bombed and strafed on almost a daily basis by warplanes and helicopters. |
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| Helicopter gunships strafed the area where the guerrilla group was fleeing. |
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| Within hours of the attempted assassination, helicopter gunships strafed the village and hundreds of its inhabitants, including men, women and children, were rounded up. |
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| A government office that had been taken over by the militiamen and used to store ammunition was strafed by a helicopter gunship and then reduced to rubble by tank fire. |
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| The frigate was covering the cargo vessels when the fighters roared in, strafed it with cannon fire, and hit it with four bombs that failed to explode. |
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| Air bases were attacked, ships were strafed and fuel dumps were blown up. |
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| They strafed the trenches, killing twelve and wounding many others. |
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| We strafed and bombed the city until 23,000 of them were dead. |
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| The teams of stretcher-bearers who tried were soon strafed with machine-gun fire. |
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| Had there been German aircraft I don't know if we'd have made it because they could have strafed like mad. |
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| One afternoon we were strafed by a squadron of Allied fighter planes who mistook our column for Wermacht troops. |
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| Allied forces quickly ruptured the German front and penetrated deep behind the lines, while Allied aircraft mercilessly strafed the retreating Germans. |
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| The same year, US A-10 Thunderbolts strafed NATO forces in Afghanistan, killing Canadian Private Mark Anthony Graham. |
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| As a seven year-old girl she was forced to flee her country before the advance of the Red Army, a fugitive hiding in ditches to avoid being strafed by Soviet aircraft. |
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| The archaeological site of Ur of the Chaldees, reputed birthplace of Abraham, was bombed and strafed by allied aircraft, with over 400 cannon holes reported in the temple tower and at least four bomb craters in the site. |
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| The battalion had been strafed while going into the trenches. |
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| American planes strafed North Korean villages pell-mell. |
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| The ruins of old homes strafed by Soviet gunships crowd a gravel streambed that is dry most of the year but runs swiftly with snowmelt come spring. |
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| Government helicopter-gunships have repeatedly strafed villages, and its troops are reportedly shooting young men on the off-chance that they might be rebels. |
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| These flights were suspended last month, after Veronica Bowers, an American missionary, and her baby were killed when their aircraft was strafed by a Peruvian air-force jet. |
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| We were never strafed from the air or shot at by the bewildered German soldiers, but at least some of us would not have lived if we had stayed any longer where there was no more food to be found. |
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| Once in the water, they were strafed by German bombers, which also dropped flares on patches of oil and burned alive some of the shipwrecked men. |
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| Men in battered green metal helmets crouched in the sand as streaks of red tracer fire from enemy bullets strafed the field. |
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| They also strafed a hot dog stand with three people standing in front of it. |
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| In a fierce battle Jolo was bombed and strafed by the government forces. |
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| Egypt's interior minister survived an assassination attempt unscathed on Thursday when a car bomb blew up next to his convoy and gunmen strafed his vehicle. |
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| Escalle and his wingman identified a parked convoy and strafed it with. |
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