A few days later she was nearly hit by a glider bomb but sustained little damage and was able to continue bombardments in support of the army until the 15 September, when she sailed back to Malta for repairs.
32.
A captured German prisoner later explained to the British that the controller was an expert at steering glider bombs from aircraft, but that the spectacle of a rocket launch had caused him to incorrectly operate the control lever in his astonishment.
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Anti-submarine operations continued on 27 February when another two destroyers joined, and finished on 28 February when the ships returned to Naples . " Laforey " sailed to Naples with survivors from, which had been sunk off Anzio on 25 February by a glider bomb.
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A minute after observing the gunfire, " Beatty " noted a large bomb explode close aboard her colleague, a glider bomb which had missed its target . " Beatty " s radar picked up five incoming aircraft, two of which passed the port side of the convoy, inside the screen.
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On the night of 23 / 24 January, his aircraft sank the destroyer HMS " Janus " with a torpedo and damaged severely " Jervis " with a Henschel Hs 293 glider bomb at the cost of 11 aircraft . The Corsica operation was a success and these long-range operations destroyed 23 aircraft and damaged 90.
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Raytheon's latest revision adjusts a June forecast by company chief executive Daniel Burnham that Raytheon expected about $ 1 billion worth of extra work over the next year to replace stocks of the Navy's Tomahawk cruise missile, Air Force glider bombs and Maverick air-to-ground missiles, and other munitions fired during NATO's three-month air campaign over Serbia and Kosovo that ended in June.