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H. L. Hunt. Haroldson Lafayette Hunt Jr. (February 17, 1889 – November 29, 1974) was an American oil tycoon. [ 1] By trading poker winnings for oil rights according to legend, but more likely through money he gained from successful speculation in oil leases, he ultimately secured title to much of the East Texas Oil Field, one of the world's ...
T. Boone Pickens. Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. (May 22, 1928 – September 11, 2019) was an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chaired the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. As of November 2016, Pickens had a net worth of $ 500 million.
Airborne leaflet propaganda. An American M16M1 cluster bomb container is loaded with leaflets during the Korean War at a US military printing plant in Japan; the container holds 22,500 leaflets. Airborne leaflet dropping is where leaflets ( flyers) are scattered in the air. Military forces have used aircraft to drop leaflets to attempt to alter ...
Eurofighter Typhoon variants. The Eurofighter Typhoon is a European multinational twin-engine, supersonic, canard delta wing, multirole fighter. [ 3 ][ 4 ] The Typhoon was designed originally as an air-superiority fighter [ 5 ] and is manufactured by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo that conducts the majority of the project ...
Category. : Airborne fighting vehicles. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Airborne armoured fighting vehicles. Airborne warfare Combat vehicles: tanks, armored personnel carriers and other vehicles designed or used as delivered by air drop, helicopter lift, glider, or air landing.
Air warfare of World War II. Boeing B-29 Superfortress long-range strategic bombers releasing their payloads during the Burma campaign in 1945. The B-29 was the largest aircraft to have a significant operational role in World War II and remains the only aircraft in history to have ever used a nuclear weapon in combat.
It has been alleged that the British used chemical weapons in Mesopotamia in 1920, during the Iraqi revolt ( Ath Thawra al Iraqiyya al Kubra ), in the period of the British Mandate over Mesopotamia. Use of tear gas and lethal poison gas against Iraqi rebels was considered, and the use of gas was promoted by Winston Churchill, head of the War ...
255 killed. 1,275 wounded, captured or deserted [ 5] Operation Junction City was an 82-day military operation conducted by United States and Republic of Vietnam (RVN or South Vietnam) forces begun on 22 February 1967 during the Vietnam War. It was the first U.S. combat airborne operation since the Korean War and one of the largest Airmobile ...