Examples of using Rolling thunder in English and their translations into Hebrew
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Rolling thunder.
Operation Rolling Thunder.
Rolling thunder.
Operation Rolling Thunder.
Rolling thunder across the hills.
It's 18 wheels of rolling thunder.
Rolling Thunder, this is Operator 4-6.
We were the, uh, Rolling Thunder tribe, right?
Rolling Thunder reached the last stage of its operational evolution during 1967 and 1968.
The US responded with a three-year bombing campaign called Operation Rolling Thunder against North Vietnam that dropped over a million tons of missiles, rockets, and bombs.
Before Rolling Thunder even began the North Vietnamese leadership knew what was coming.
Though they inflicted $370 million in damage and 90,000 casualties,Operation Rolling Thunder failed to accomplish any of the stated goals and was widely viewed as a failure.
The sound of rolling thunder, the wind blowing in the trees, the smell of of the wet ground after the rain, the call of the barn owl, the voice of the night.
The Falcon was a complex system offering limited performance, especially due to its lack of aproximity fuse, and managed a dismal 9% kill ratio in 54 firings during Operation Rolling Thunder.
Coop and Rolling Thunder are together again.
In Los Angeles communities long beset by violence,rival gangs have come together under the United in Peace banner, the rolling thunder of hundreds of motorcycles bringing one message: We ride for peace.
Another problem exposed by Rolling Thunder was the unpreparedness of the Air Force for the operations it was undertaking.
The Falcon was a complex system offering limited performance, especially due to its lack of a proximity fuse, and managed only a 9%kill ratio in 54 firings during Operation Rolling Thunder in the Vietnam War.
Until the third week of April, Rolling Thunder had enjoyed at least equal status with air missions conducted in the south.
The entire complexion of the American effort was altered on 8 March 1965, when 3,500 U.S. Marines came ashore at Da Nang,ostensibly to defend the southern airfields committed to prosecuting Rolling Thunder.
The majority of strikes during Rolling Thunder were launched from four air bases, in Thailand: Korat, Takhli, Udon Thani, and Ubon.
In February 1968, McNamara resigned his position and was replaced by Clark Clifford, who was chosen because of his personal friendship with Johnson and his previous opposition to McNamara's suggestions that the number oftroops in the South Vietnam be stabilized and that Rolling Thunder be ended.
During a bombing mission during Operation Rolling Thunder over Hanoi in October 1967, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese.
On 31 December 1967, the Department of Defense announced that 864,000 tons of American bombshad been dropped on North Vietnam during Rolling Thunder, compared with 653,000 tons dropped during the entire Korean War and 503,000 tons in the Pacific theater during the Second World War.
Operation Rolling Thunder started which was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. 2nd Air Division(later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force(VNAF) against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam(North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968.
Chief of Naval Operations David McDonald reported to his co-chiefs after atrip to South Vietnam in September 1966, that Rolling Thunder aircrews were angered with the targeting process and that they faulted the campaign due to"guidelines requiring repetitive air programs that seemed more than anything else to benefit enemy gunners.".
During 1967, the second full year of Rolling Thunder operations, 362 U.S. aircraft had been lost over North Vietnam(208 Air Force, 142 Navy, and 12 Marine Corps).
Those figures do, however,say a great deal about the efficiency of Rolling Thunder, since North Vietnam's SAM batteries never lacked sufficient stocks of missiles, regardless of efforts to interdict the supply system.
Despite the best interdiction efforts of Rolling Thunder, however, the NLF and PAVN launched their largest offensive thus far in the war on 30 January 1968, striking throughout South Vietnam during the lunar new year holiday.