1.   Strong Japanese positions were softened up by intense aerial bombardments, followed by the landing of Marine assault forces.

2.   The intense preliminary bombardment, so characteristic of Ptain, was just too prolonged and sacrificed the vital element of surprise.

3.   And with the Special Forces designating the targets on the front lines, the intense bombardment from the sky gave the anti-Taliban forces the ultimate advantage.

4.   Before the killings, the Israelis conducted an intense post-midnight bombardment of Palestinian military targets in the Gaza Strip.

5.   Even in the Persian Gulf War, the allied land invasion of Kuwait and Iraq was preceded by more than a month of intense aerial bombardment.

6.   It remains deadly after hours of intense bombardment with hard radiation, months of soaking in formaldehyde, years of burial, decades of freezing.

7.   It was one of several tense episodes along the borders between Yugoslavia and its neighbors as NATO kept up its intense bombardment of targets across the nation.

8.   Kabul, like Mazar-e-Sharif, was under intense bombardment by U.S. warplanes Friday.

9.   After a week of intense bombardment, George Munroe, the British commander, surrendered to the French general, the Marquis de Montcalm.

10.   APTV is in Grozny as Chechen fighters defend their burning capital which is under intense Russian bombardment.