This was immediately followed by an open-air reactor core fire that released considerable airborne radioactive contamination for about nine days that precipitated onto parts of the USSR and western Europe , before being finally contained Containing on 4 May 1986 .

In 1940–41 , German night fighters , lacking airborne radar sets and a means to locate Scouring them over Germany , had flown Self_motion to British bomber bases and attempted to destroy Destroying RAF bombers as they returned Arriving from their missions .

In the geisha segment performances Madonna wore Wearing a kimono and later performed Hold airborne martial arts .

Here the division halted Process_end until early in September , when they returned Arriving to England to prepare GetReady for further airborne operations Military_operation later in the war Hostile_encounter .

The British airborne operations Military_operation in North Africa were conducted Action by British paratroopers of the 1st Parachute Brigade , commanded Control by Brigadier Edwin Flavell , as part of the Tunisian Campaign Military_operation of World War Military_operation II , over the period between November 1942 and April 1943 .

When planning Arranging began Process_start for Operation Military_operation Torch , the Allied invasion Attack of North Africa in 1942 , it was decided Deciding to attach Connect the 1st Parachute Brigade , part of the 1st Airborne Division , to the Allied forces Causation taking part Dispersal , as an American airborne unit , the 2nd Battalion , 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment , was also to be used Using during the invasion Attack .

On 16 July , Adolf Hitler ordered Arranging the preparation of Operation Sea Lion as a potential amphibious and airborne assault Attack on Britain , to follow once the Luftwaffe had air superiority over the UK .

Operation Deadstick was the codename for an operation by airborne forces of the British Army that took place Process_start in the early hours of 6 June 1944 as part of the Normandy landings of the Second World War .

The mission was vital to the success of Operation Tonga , the overall British airborne landings in Normandy .

The division was also able to confirm Check the deaths Death of the British airborne troops that had taken part Dispersal in Operation Freshman , an unsuccessful attempt to disrupt the German atomic weapons programme in November 1942 .

The amphibious assault , primarily by the US 4th Infantry Division and 70th Tank Battalion , was supported Supporting by airborne landings of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Division .

D-Day at Utah began Process_start at 01:30 , when the first of the airborne units arrived Arriving , tasked with securing the key crossroads at Sainte-Mère-Église and controlling Control the causeways through the flooded farmland behind Utah so the infantry could advance Cause_to_make_progress inland .

While some airborne objectives were quickly met Come_together , many paratroopers landed Self_motion far from their drop zones and were unable to fulfill Achieve their objectives on the first day .

French armored Bearing_arms platoons , airborne units and troops delivered Military_operation by landing craft to the coast of central Annam , modern-day Vietnam , attempted to sweep Removing forces of the communist Viet Minh from the critical Route One .

Operation Mallard was the codename for an airborne forces operation , which was conducted Action by the British Army on 6 June 1944 , as part of the Normandy landings during the Second World War .

Using two landing Self_motion zones , one to the west of the Caen canal and the other to the east of the River Orne , Mallard was the third airborne operation Military_operation involving units of the division on D-Day .

other major tenants have included Cause_to_be_included the 3rd id 's 4th ibct , 82nd airborne division advise & assist brigade , 332nd medical brigade , 321st sustainment brigade , vertical onboard delivery unk ( unk ) , unk , navy customs battalion juliet , elements of the iraqi army 's 7th division , and the united states air force ( usaf ) .

The operation , one of three landings during the Allied invasion of Italy in September 1943 , was undertaken by airborne troops of the British 1st Airborne Division , commanded Control by Major-General George Hopkinson .

The airborne division was selected Choosing to undertake the mission , but at the time they were located in North Africa .

The landing was unopposed and the airborne division successfully captured Conquering the ports of Taranto , and later Brindisi on the Adriatic coast in working order .

Reinforcements from two infantry divisions had by then been landed behind them , which allowed Preventing_or_letting the airborne troops to be withdrawn Escaping to Taranto .

although this supply Supply operation was a success , few of the gliders made it to their landing Self_motion zones in sicily during the two british airborne operations that followed , many becoming Becoming casualties Death of the weather conditions or anti-aircraft gunfire .

The Landing at Nadzab was an airborne landing Self_motion on 5 September 1943 during the New Guinea campaign of World War II in conjunction with the landing Self_motion at Lae .

On 10 March 1949 a Lockheed Lodestar aircraft became Becoming airborne at Coolangatta , Queensland , Australia for a flight to Brisbane .

Most of the raids Attack consisted Forming_relationships of ten men of various ranks , carried Carry_goods by Motor Torpedo Boats and dories , except for one operation , which was an airborne landing .

Operation Ladbroke was a glider landing by British airborne troops during the Second World War near Syracuse , Sicily , that began on 9 July 1943 as part of Operation Husky , the Allied invasion of Sicily .

One person died Death on Miyako-jima after being struck Attack by airborne debris .

Runway 26 was too short for a safe takeoff Self_motion , causing Causation the aircraft to overrun the end of the runway before it could become Becoming airborne .

It began Process_start with a large amphibious and airborne operation Military_operation , followed by a six-week land campaign Military_operation , and initiated Process_start the Italian Campaign Military_operation .

A 1,200-plane airborne assault Attack preceded Process_start an amphibious assault Attack involving more than 5,000 vessels .

During the evening the remaining elements of the airborne divisions landed .

As the Allies kept up the pressure on the Japanese around Salamaua , in early September they launched an airborne assault on Nadzab , and a seaborne landing near Lae , subsequently taking the town with simultaneous drives from the east and north-west .

All told , some 154,000 residents evacuated Escaping from the communities surrounding the plant due to the rising off-site levels of ambient ionizing radiation caused Causation by airborne radioactive contamination from the damaged reactors .

Operation Fustian was an airborne forces operation undertaken during the Allied invasion Attack of Sicily in July 1943 in the Second World War .

Lessons were learned Education_teaching from the operation and were put Bringing into practice Practice in Allied airborne operations .

the pilots of two united states air force ( usaf ) f-15 fighter aircraft , operating under the control of a usaf airborne warning and control system ( awacs ) aircraft , misidentified Check two united states army uh-60 black hawk helicopters as iraqi mil mi-24 `` hind '' helicopters .

The airborne part of the operation was undertaken by the First Allied Airborne Army with the land operation Military_operation by XXX Corps of the British Second Army .

Market Garden consisted of two sub operations : The attack Attack was the largest airborne operation up to that point in World War II .

The operation made Manufacturing massive use of airborne forces , whose tactical objectives were to secure Getting the bridges and to allow Preventing_or_letting a rapid advance by armored ground units to consolidate Cause_change_of_strength north of Arnhem .

The operation required Imposing_obligation the seizure of the bridges by airborne troops across the Meuse River , two arms of the Rhine ( the Waal River and the Lower Rhine ) , together with crossings over several smaller canals and tributaries .

However , this large airborne force contrasted with the ground forces Military_operation being light with only one corps moving Motion north of Eindhoven , XXX Corps .

Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks ' XXX Corps ground force advance was delayed Change_event_time by the initial failure of the airborne units to secure bridges at Son en Breugel and Nijmegen .

at the northern point of the airborne operation , the british 1st airborne division initially encountered Confronting_problem strong resistance .

at the northern point of the airborne operation , the british 1st airborne division initially encountered Confronting_problem strong resistance .

The British 2nd Parachute Brigade was part of the Operation Rugby airborne landings Self_motion in August 1944 .

the operation Military_operation was carried out Action by an ad hoc airborne formation called the 1st airborne task force Causation .

the operation Military_operation was carried out Action by an ad hoc airborne formation called the 1st airborne task force Causation .

The airborne task force landed Self_motion in the River Argens valley with the objective of preventing Preventing_or_letting German reinforcements from reaching Arriving the landing Self_motion beaches .

Eventually the brigade captured Conquering their primary objectives , but the lack of manpower meant that their secondary objective of Le Muy was given Giving to the American airborne forces Causation .

The seaborne and airborne landings Self_motion linked Connect up within two days , and the brigade became Becoming the reserve formation for the operation Military_operation .