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Jagdstaffel 75 (194 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

squadron would score four aerial victories during the war, including an observation balloon downed. The unit's victories came at the expense of one wounded in

Jagdstaffel 78 (209 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

score over eight aerial victories during the war, including one observation balloon downed. The unit's victories came at the expense of two killed in

Jagdstaffel 73 (258 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

during the war, including seven night victories, and including an observation balloon downed. The unit's victories came at the expense of three killed

Balloon Observer's Badge (213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

eagle grasping a swastika. Below this is a representation of an observation balloon. The Balloon Observer's Badge had three grades based on a point system:

CSS Fanny (920 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Battle of Elizabeth City in February 1862. Due to being used as an observation balloon platform, Fanny is sometimes credited with being the first self-propelled

17th Army Corps (France) (272 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

part of the Fourth Army. The 9th Balloon company of the U.S. Army Observation Balloon Service in World War I, served with the corps in 1918. The corps

Italian cruiser Liguria (1,718 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sea, and from 1908 to 1911, she was fitted with an experimental observation balloon. She saw extensive action during the Italo-Turkish War in 1911–1912

Otto Schmidt (aviator) (1,173 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

18 October 1917 while engaged in a highly hazardous attack on an observation balloon. He returned to wing command while on crutches in July 1918, and

Archibald Buchanan (RAF officer) (340 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

as a balloon buster on 30 June 1918, when he destroyed an enemy observation balloon northeast of Estaires. His second win, on 20 July, was shared with

List of airships of the United States Navy (553 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of it, (l to r) J-3 or 4, K-1, ZMC-2, in front of them, "Caquot" observation balloon, and in foreground free balloons used for training. US Navy airships

Cecil Thompson (RAF officer) (425 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

4 September, he teamed with Sidney Highwood to destroy a German observation balloon. The next day, Thompson destroyed another. On the 15th, he burned

List of ships named Fanny (368 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Battle of Elizabeth City in February 1862. Due to being used as an observation balloon platform, Fanny is sometimes credited with being the first self-propelled

1867 in Argentina (275 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

– Paraguayan War: Staff Sergeant Roberto A. Chodasiewicz uses an observation balloon during the battle of Humaitá. 31 October – establishment of the Benito

Chester Ellis Wright (445 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Between 18 September and 23 October 1918, Wright shot down a German observation balloon, an unidentified enemy airplane, a Rumpler, and six Fokker D.VIIs

Frank Granger Quigley (881 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and 23 March 1918. On 11 March alone, he helped destroy the only observation balloon of his career in the morning, then in the afternoon destroyed a Pfalz

Jagdstaffel 29 (634 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on 16 March 1917, when Wilhelm Allmenröder incinerated an enemy observation balloon. The fledgling squadron would be blooded just under a month later

Mabel's New Hero (166 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

masher's attentions, and again to rescue her from a out-of-control observation balloon. The cast includes: Mabel Normand as Mabel Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

41st Electronic Combat Squadron (991 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

(2002–2021). The squadron's origins date to the 9th Balloon Company of the Observation Balloon Service in World War I, which served with the French 17th and 32nd

Heinrich Gontermann (1,389 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

balloon buster, with all its extraordinary hazards, by downing an observation balloon. He shot down 4 others within the month, including a double victory

Lansing Colton Holden Jr. (890 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

first victory on 29 September 1918. After destroying that German observation balloon, it would take him almost a month to score again; on 23 October,

Military aviation (1,748 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lighter-than-air balloons. During the Battle of Fleurus in 1794, the French observation balloon l'Entreprenant was used to monitor Austrian troop movements. The

5th Shock Army (976 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Regiment 1617th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment 4th Separate Artillery Observation Balloon Battalion Armor and Engineers 11th Tank Corps 20th Tank Brigade 36th

Sumner Sewall (618 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Peck Curtis. Sewall then became a balloon buster, shooting down an observation balloon each on 4 and 5 November. The only victory he did not receive credit

Signal Corps Radio (444 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(ground) SCR-54 SCR-108 SCR-188 SCR-197 SCR-237 Aircraft SCR-62 observation balloon SCR-64 SCR-68 SCR-80 SCR-90 SCR-91 SCR-100 SCR-133 SCR-134 SCR-135

French ship Intrépide (287 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Intrépide (1864) as the school ship Borda L'Intrépide, a French military observation balloon of 1795 HMS Intrepid USS Intrepid Intrepid (disambiguation) Roche

31st Army (Soviet Union) (1,480 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

Mortar Regiment 74th Guards Mortar Regiment 2nd Separate Artillery Observation Balloon Battalion 66th Antiaircraft Artillery Division 1981st Antiaircraft

Ludwig Luer (275 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

had been commissioned as a Leutnant. On 14 August, he shot down an observation balloon west of Ypres at 1637 hours; that same day, he received the Iron

Harold Robert Buckley (410 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

May and 27 September 1918, he downed four enemy airplanes and an observation balloon. When the war ended, Buckley stayed in Paris. He wrote an unofficial

André Dubonnet (469 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Frank Baylies, teamed up with Fernand Henri Chavannes to destroy an observation balloon on 13 June, and split a pair of wins on 16 August 1918 with Joseph

Marcel Nogues (432 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Fraissinet. On 4 July, for his ninth win, he shot down an enemy observation balloon, sharing the win with Andre Petit-Delchet; this victory brought him

Bob Kulick (1,318 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Kulick served in various side projects such as Blackthorne and Observation Balloon. He also produced Motörhead's "Whiplash" (winner of the 2004 Grammy

Action on the Polderhoek Spur (5,250 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

handed over to IX Corps and went into reserve as the Germans used an observation balloon, accurately to direct the German guns. A German attack later in the

Wilbert Wallace White (378 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Fokker D.VIIs on 24 July 1918. On 14 September, he shot down a German observation balloon and another Fokker D.VII. On 27 September, he got two more victories

Taylorcraft L-2 (1,443 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the L-2 and other liaison aircraft in much the same manner as the observation balloon was used in France during World War I—spotting enemy troop and supply

Garnet Malley (3,398 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mission in the Lys region, after which they each destroyed a German observation balloon over Estaires. Malley's final victory, over the Lys on 1 June, was

Fernand Guyou (455 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

seven more months before his second win, when he helped down an observation balloon on 30 May 1918. He would score twice more while with N93, and leave

Thomas Barkell (1,513 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on motorized, horse-drawn and canal transports, artillery, and an observation balloon. It also noted that all but one were made from altitudes of less

Kenneth Russell Unger (743 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

later, Lieutenant Unger became a balloon buster, destroying an enemy observation balloon. His final tally was seven enemy aircraft destroyed and seven driven

Hans von Freden (510 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of aerial victories while assigned to them, when he shot down an observation balloon at Spresiano on 29 January 1918. He furthered his career as a balloon

Hans-Georg von der Marwitz (463 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

time that year, when he used his Pfalz D.III fighter to burn an observation balloon on 13 May. Marwitz would not score again until 19 February 1918;

Walter Göttsch (567 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on 10 September 1916. On 4 November 1916, he destroyed a Belgian observation balloon for his first victory. He then scored twice more before winning a

Sydney MacGillvary Brown (550 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reconnaissance plane on the 19th, another Fokker D.VII on 28 September, an observation balloon on 27 October 1918, and a third D.VII on the 28th. In February 1919

Jean Chaput (580 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Escadrille 57, in May 1916. Between 22 May and 23 July, he downed an observation balloon and four German airplanes. On 24 August, he was again severely wounded;

Charles Cudemore (541 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

He opened his victory roll when he and Robert Hall shot down an observation balloon on 7 May 1917; Cudemore then promptly shot down another balloon single-handed

RMS Campania (1,840 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

cleared and the aft mast removed, so that she could also serve as an Observation Balloon Ship. Campania now bore little resemblance to her original configuration

Constant Soulier (500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

began his aerial victories as a balloon buster, destroying a German observation balloon on 24 August 1916. He had two additional wins before he began a prolonged

John F. Curry (750 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

plane-along with an aircraft of the 168th Aero Squadron-destroyed a German observation balloon. Curry served as the fourth and final commander of Air Force Life

Hazel Wallace (485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

became a balloon buster, teaming with Riley to bring down a German observation balloon. Though he scored no further victories, his Distinguished Flying

William Thaw II (684 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

quick wins in April and May 1918. His final tally was one enemy observation balloon and four airplanes shot down. Thaw has been credited with purchasing

Aerial victory standards of World War I (2,767 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

driving it down out of control, capturing it, or destroying an enemy observation balloon. In the earliest days of aerial combat, in 1915 and 1916, victories

Harold Albert Kullberg (450 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and 28 May, 1 and 9 June. His next victory, his ninth, was over an observation balloon. He continued scoring apace through June and July. August and September

Kurt Ungewitter (506 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

he scored his first single-seater victory when he destroyed an observation balloon over Saint Just. Ungewitter would not score again until 23 September

Battle of Liaoyang (1,750 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Russian balloon anchored between missions Battle of Liaoyang, Russian observation balloon in mid-air Battle of Liaoyang, Russian balloon, observers in the

William C. Lambert (492 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

George McElroy. Between April and August, scored 18 victories–one observation balloon and 11 aircraft destroyed (with two victories shared), and six driven

André de Meulemeester (970 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

eleventh undisputed triumph was as a balloon buster; he destroyed an observation balloon on 5 October 1918. During the war, he had flown 511 combat sorties

Surveillance aircraft (3,756 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A Royal Flying Corps observation balloon on the Western Front, during World War I

Halberstadt D.II (2,055 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

attempt was made to arm a Halberstadt D.II with rockets, this time for observation balloon attacks with a more formal method, using eight Le Prieur-like rockets

Flavio Baracchini (737 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

more victories, on the 3rd and 8th, while his first claim for an observation balloon went unconfirmed. He was so seriously wounded in the left jaw on

Maurice Mealing (486 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

On 10 December, he became a balloon buster when he destroyed an observation balloon. He began 1918 with a victory on 25 January, and another on 17 February

Disney Springs (3,029 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Characters in Flight observation balloon ride

Amedeo Mecozzi (890 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

No. 169.14 for his fifth victory. Mecozzi would go on to claim an observation balloon in June and three more aeroplanes in October 1918 but these four

Roswell incident (11,610 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

newspaper reporters, "I am sure that what I found was not any weather observation balloon." When interviewed in Fort-Worth, Texas, Jesse Marcel described the

Cecil Pashley (490 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

killed during the First World War; Herbert was a 2nd lieutenant observation balloon officer and died on Christmas Day in 1916, whilst Eric was a lieutenant

Orange County Great Park (2,263 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Park's Time Has Come". Los Angeles Times. March 17, 2002. "Great Park Observation Balloon Preview Park Wins Honor Award from American Society of Landscape

George R. Riley (599 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

two-seater reconnaissance machine. After he destroyed his first observation balloon on 8 April and another Albatros D.V on the 12th, he was wounded on

Alan Arnett McLeod (1,003 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

claimed a Fokker Dr.I destroyed in January and on 14 January flamed an observation balloon near Beauvin. He was recommended for mentioned in despatches for

Edward Porter Alexander (2,990 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

continued his intelligence gathering by volunteering to go up in an observation balloon at Gaines' Mill on June 27, ascending several times and returning

Battle of the Crna Bend (1917) (4,898 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

which amounted to about 21% of the committed infantry. One Italian observation balloon was also lost. During the infantry attack on 9 May, the Allied artillery

Marcel Hugues (699 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

buster for his first official win for N81, when he shot down a German observation balloon on 22 July 1917. He then ran off a succession of seven shared wins

Mysterious Island (1961 film) (1,657 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Catalonia, Spain. The escape from the Confederate prison - using an observation balloon - was filmed in Church Square, Shepperton, England. Interiors were

Imperial Brazilian Army (3,438 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

new and modern artillery guns. During the Paraguayan War even an observation balloon previously used in the American Civil War was acquired by the Imperial

War As It Really Is (1,654 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the harbor; a seaplane taxiing, taking off, and landing; and an observation balloon being raised and lowered from a ship in the harbor. Reel 2. Buildings

Birge Clark (867 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Columbia University in 1917. He served in the United States Army, as an observation balloon pilot in World War I; he was shot down by a German pilot and won

List of World War II aces from the Soviet Union (1,262 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Aleksandr Gridnev 9 5 4 — Lydia Litvyak 8 5 3 Does not include one observation balloon. Counts vary significantly. Aleksey Maresyev 7 7 — Other sources

Karl Thom (911 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

leg while undertaking the usually hazardous duty of attacking an observation balloon. He was not successful in his assault, nor would he ever shoot down

Douglas John Bell (898 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

23 March, when he became a balloon buster by destroying an enemy observation balloon, then driving down out of control two defending Albatros D.Vs, all

Signal Corps in the American Civil War (4,346 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Confederates' favor. On the Union side, Myer attempted to deploy a military observation balloon at Manassas, bringing along 20 troops from the 26th Pennsylvania

Reed G. Landis (984 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

August, he claimed another ten victories. His final tally was an observation balloon and eight enemy airplanes destroyed, and three enemy planes driven

William Gordon Claxton (774 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

June 30, Claxton successfully downed 17 German aircraft plus an observation balloon. Thirteen of these planes fell in a four-day stretch, from June 27

HMAS Parramatta (D55) (1,664 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

patrols of the Adriatic. For this, Parramatta was fitted with an observation balloon. On 16 November 1917, Parramatta and several sister ships came to

William A. Wellman (2,683 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

killed/gunner escaped March 8: forced two observers to jump from an observation balloon (attack unsuccessful; balloon taken down) March 9: fired on a German

The Mysterious Island (2,739 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Siege of Richmond, Virginia, by hijacking a hydrogen-filled observation balloon. The escapees are Cyrus Smith, a railroad engineer in the Union army

Frederic Ives Lord (1,668 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

being wounded in October. His final score in World War I was an observation balloon and eight aircraft claimed destroyed, three 'out of control'. He

Israeli Ground Forces (3,934 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Eurasia Review. Retrieved 8 August 2010.[permanent dead link] "IDF observation balloon crashes near Gaza" Archived 6 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Ynet

Joan and Peter (3,396 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

she loves him. They marry. Peter is again badly wounded when the observation balloon in which he is serving is shot down. But he is out of the war, and

Adolf Heyrowsky (997 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

he played balloon buster over Belgrade for Flik 9, destroying an observation balloon on both dates. In August 1915, Heyrowsky was appointed to command

Field Eugene Kindley (1,166 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

dropping bombs on and strafing German infantry, destroying a German observation balloon, taking out a German machine gun nest, shooting down an enemy airplane

73rd Special Operations Squadron (2,003 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Garden City, Long Island, for preparation to serve overseas. An observation balloon detachment of 30 men was assigned to the squadron at Garden City

Leonard Taplin (1,353 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1 September, Taplin became a balloon buster, destroying a German observation balloon over Fromelles. The next day, he shot down and wrecked a Halberstadt

Henry Botterell (919 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1918, he flew 91 sorties. Botterell's sole air victory was a German observation balloon, which was well-defended by anti-aircraft guns, on August 29, 1918

Regioni-class cruiser (2,367 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Celebration in 1909. Elba and Liguria were modified to operate an observation balloon to assist in spotting naval mines, which could be more easily seen

Léon Bourjade (854 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

re-equipped, flying his newly acquired Spad XIII to shoot down a German observation balloon. With one exception, all of his air victories were to be over balloons

Eugène Godard (1,361 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Franco-Austrian war, Godard returned to Europe and offered tethered observation balloon services to Emperor Napoleon III. In so doing, he instituted the

Winterberg tunnel (675 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

entrances in 2020. On 4 and 5 May 1917, the French military used an observation balloon to precisely identify the coordinates to the southern and northern

Selden Long (1,233 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

notably the following: "On 10 September 1915, he went out to attack an observation balloon shed with a 100-lb. bomb, but, being heavily fired at by an anti-aircraft

Albert Caquot (1,700 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Gondola of Caquot Type R Observation Balloon at the USAF Museum

Israel Defense Forces (16,283 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Eurasia Review. Retrieved 8 August 2010.[permanent dead link] "IDF observation balloon crashes near Gaza" Archived 6 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Ynet

Frank Ormond Soden (1,150 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

more in August. On 15 September, he singlehandedly shot down an observation balloon for his 20th kill. October 1918 was his most productive month. On

Libby Prison (4,065 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sergeant Pencroft (Percy Herbert) escape from Libby Prison via an observation balloon. Episode 25 titled "Escape" of the anthology tv series The Great

Fernand Jacquet (1,316 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

more wins that went unconfirmed, dropping flechettes on a German observation balloon, and strafing the Germans at Gistel. On the afternoon and evening

Discovery Expedition (6,858 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Land. On 4 February, Scott landed on the Barrier and unpacked an observation balloon which he had acquired for aerial surveys. Scott climbed aboard and

Genesee Country Village and Museum (1,275 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

interior of the one-room schoolhouse A replica of the Civil War observation balloon the Intrepid A treadle lathe at the gunsmith shop The most recent

Bonne Maison Aerodrome (553 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

when four patrols were carried out, one of which shot down an enemy observation balloon about 18:00. Two German aircraft were also shot down during the day

Timeline of US Navy airship units (pre-WWII) (809 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

of it, (l to r) J-3 or 4, K-1, ZMC-2, in front of them, "Caquot" observation balloon, and in foreground free balloons used for training. US Navy airships

319th Field Artillery Regiment (4,270 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

319th made the unit's first operational parachute jump when his observation balloon was shot down by a German plane. Returning to the United States,

Walter Anderson (RAF officer, died 1936) (818 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Captain George G. MacLennan of Owen Sound, Ontario, shot down an observation balloon and then bombed a Bolshevik airfield at Tcherni-Yar. During the engagement

Elwyn Roy King (3,502 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

shot down two DFWs near Laventie. On 1 September, King destroyed an observation balloon over Aubers Ridge. Three days later he shot down an LVG after attacking

319th Field Artillery Regiment (4,270 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

319th made the unit's first operational parachute jump when his observation balloon was shot down by a German plane. Returning to the United States,

C. R. W. Nevinson (3,814 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Corps and came under anti-aircraft fire. He spent a night in an observation balloon above the Somme. Making his way to a forward post one day he was

Francis S. Symondson (1,031 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Valour by the Italian government. Symondson's victories included an observation balloon set on fire, another destroyed, two Albatros D.V fighters shot down

Tom F. Hazell (1,414 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Squadron, flying the S.E.5a. On 22 August 1918, Hazell shot down an observation balloon despite its escort of seven Fokker D.VIIs. The escort was led by

USS Wright (AV-1) (4,044 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

back to Key West) conducted maneuvers to experiment with the kite observation balloon. A few weeks after Wright reached her destination, the NC-10 flying

Wings (1977 TV series) (509 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Winch 23 February 1978 (1978-02-23) Alan Farmer shoots down a German observation balloon, but spares the unarmed observer; he is told by Triggers to stay

German phosgene attack of 19 December 1915 (3,495 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

don their helmets in time. At 8:00 a.m. on 20 December, a German observation balloon was sent up and an aeroplane flew low along the front line, followed

Steffisburg (3,348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Aerial view of Steffisburg from an observation balloon between 1914-1918

Airship (15,951 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ZR-3, in front of it, (l to r) J-3 or 4, K-1, ZMC-2, in front of them, "Caquot" observation balloon, and in foreground free balloons used for training

Battle of Chancellorsville (14,188 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lasted until midafternoon. Several Confederate soldiers saw the Union observation balloon Eagle soaring overhead and assumed that they could likewise be seen

Australian contribution to the Allied Intervention in Russia 1918–1919 (3,930 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mountain guns through the swamp, whilst Sadlier-Jackson had to use an observation balloon for situational awareness. During this battle an Australian, Corporal

UFO conspiracy theories (9,324 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

it was, and to forget about it. It is nothing more than a weather observation balloon. Of course, we both knew differently." Marcel gave a final interview

Thaddeus S. C. Lowe (4,955 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Blue and the Gray, features a scene with Thaddeus Lowe testing his observation balloon during the 1862 Peninsula campaign. Lowe is played by actor James

Romorantin - Pruniers Air Detachment (2,964 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

responsible for providing all necessary materiel to support the Observation Balloon Companies at the front. Caquot Observation balloons, manufactured

168th Aero Squadron (1,519 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

squadron plane on a photo-reconnaissance mission passed near an enemy observation balloon and fired on it. As luck would have it, the squadron had just received

Konstantin Rokossovsky (9,657 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Rokossovsky in the gondola of an artillery observation balloon, summer 1945

Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 (10,219 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved August 18, 2017. MOELLER, KATY (August 24, 2017). "Eclipse observation balloon went missing. Did it land in Treasure Valley?". The Idaho Statesman

Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor (2,225 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The next day marked a change of focus for him; he shot down an observation balloon. Balloons, guarded by anti-aircraft artillery and patrolling fighter

135th Aero Squadron (2,079 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Curry-along with a 168th Aero Squadron aeroplane- brought down a German observation balloon. By the time of the Armistice on 11 November, the squadron made 1

Anita Parkhurst Willcox (1,829 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the front lines. Willcox and McMein also painted elephants on an observation balloon and artillery guns. She remained with the US army when it entered

Battle of Turtucaia (7,636 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

during the initial phase of the assault: At 5:30 am a Bulgarian observation balloon pulled by an automobile ascended to the sky to direct the planned

Battle of Messines (1917) (14,715 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

signal detachments were organised to advance with the infantry. An observation balloon was reserved for messages by signal lamp from the front line, as

Second Battle of Passchendaele (7,223 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Zealanders handed over to troops of IX Corps. The Germans used an observation balloon accurately to direct artillery-fire and on 14 December, the ground

28th Aero Squadron (2,714 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

plane to take off at 10:45. This mission was to attack an enemy observation balloon north-east of Chambley however the pilot did not find a balloon in

Antoine Morlot (2,354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

charge that saved the situation. He was also responsible for the observation balloon and may have gone aloft during the day to make reports. During the

1947 flying disc craze (11,598 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

it was, and to forget about it. It is nothing more than a weather observation balloon. Of course, we both knew differently." Marcel gave a final interview

Jesse Marcel (2,038 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

it was, and to forget about it. It is nothing more than a weather observation balloon. Of course, we both knew differently. Marcel's son, Jesse A. Marcel

German attack on Vimy Ridge (6,984 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

day, air observers saw far more gun flashes than the crew of the observation balloon but could see none after dark. A balloon observer could spot flashes

List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft before 1925 (35,303 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

he nor his observer Pomeroy are injured. Autumn A Caquot Type R observation balloon, manufactured by Goodyear, being deflated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Battle of Gembloux (1940) (10,296 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

although German artillery fire, profiting from the spotting of an observation balloon, wounded the battalion commander. The 1st Battalion of the 2nd Moroccan

Ewen Cameron Bruce (1,735 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

circled the city. During this flight the plane shot down an enemy observation balloon, thereby preventing the discovery of the concentration of tanks supporting

How to Train Your Dragon (novel series) (7,526 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

book. The arena erupts in chaos and the children escape in a Roman Observation Balloon. Alvin manages to get his hand-hook lodged into the balloon basket

Charles Moore Watson (1,182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich; and the development of a military observation balloon was authorised. In 1882 the Store was moved to Chatham, and the development

Mount Rücker (1,278 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was responsible for the instrumentation of a huge astrophysical observation balloon that was launched over Antarctica in January 1988. 78°12′S 162°50′E

List of numbered documents of the United States Department of War (263 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1918 34 survey/German army 886 Provisional description of Italian observation balloon 1919 44 manual 893 supplement I Range tables for French 75-/mm. gun

List of aircraft at the National Museum of the United States Air Force (7,848 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Air Force. 5 June 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2016. "Caquot Type R Observation Balloon". National Museum of the US Air Force. 7 April 2015. Retrieved 25

List of fatal accidents and incidents involving Royal Air Force aircraft from 1945 (9,102 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

land when it struck a fibre-optic cable connected to an Aerostat (observation balloon) which brought it down to the ground. Nine service personnel were

12th (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (5,618 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

43rd (H) Bty shelled a position where a 'Zeppelin' (probably an observation balloon) was reported to be inflating. Next day Brigade HQ was shot up by

Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) (33,119 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

2024. Fox, Nina (16 May 2024). "IDF confirms Hezbollah drone hits observation balloon: 'No harm to aerial image'". Ynet. Retrieved 20 May 2024. al-Joud