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    Operation Cobra

    1978 · Crime drama · 1h 38m

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  1. Operation Cobra: With Nyra Banerjee, Hiten Patel, Gautam Gulati, Pawan Chopra. RAW and MI6 agents join their forces to bring down a terrorist plot against UK, but will they trust eachother?

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    • 2019-02-15
    • Action, Thriller
    • 126
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  3. Recommendations. Kashokhin. RAW and MI6 agents join their forces to bring down a terrorist plot against UK, but will they trust eachother?

  4. Operation Cobra R 1997 1h 22m Action List Reviews 27% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings An Interpol officer's quest to avenge his partner's death leads him to India and encounters with assassins.

    • Fred Olen Ray
    • Action
    • Tane Mcclure
    • Operation Cobra: 457 Bombers to Carpet Bomb Caen
    • Timing and Shock Value Were Crucial Components
    • 4,100 Tons of Bombs Were Dropped on German Positions
    • Friendly Fire Killed 111 Americans and Wounded 490 More
    • Was Operation Cobra Worth The Price?

    In an attempt to break German resistance around the city of Caen, Montgomery ordered 457 Halifax and Lancaster bombers to carpet bomb the area. The July 7 air operation against Caen dropped three thousand tons of high explosives in front of the British Army still on the outskirts of Caen. Because the bombs were mainly 1,100-pounders, they created c...

    Bradley understood that timing was crucial to Cobra’s success. The general wanted a short, intensive bombardment to maximize shock value. He wanted the bombers to approach the target box parallel to the front and along German lines in order to provide a greater security zone for his ground troops. He believed the bombers could attack in the morning...

    The confusion and tragedy of the July 24 strike can be blamed on many factors. Direct communications between the bombers and the ground troops was nonexistent. Although Leigh-Mallory was physically at Bradley’s headquarters near the front, his cancellation order had to be sent back to the Eighth Air Force’s Headquarters in England, then sent to Eig...

    The July 26 breakthrough at St. Lo owed its success to aggressive pattern bombing the previous day. Bradley’s use of heavy bombers in close air support of ground operations brought the weight of American airpower to bear against a vulnerable opponent at an opportune time. But the success of Operation Cobra was tainted by more friendly-fire incident...

    Both Montgomery and Bradley recognized the utility of using heavy bombers in support of ground troops, but the failure of Allied heavy bombers to break the back of German resistance at Caen (causing considerable collateral damage to French civilian and friendly troops) did not deter Bradley from using them at St. Lo. Although friendly-fire casualti...

  5. This teen-oriented action thriller marked stuntman Lasse Spang Olsen´s directing debut, but he fared a lot better with his second movie "I Kina spiser de hunde". Based on a novel by Anders Bodelsen, this has been filmed once before, as "Operasjon Cobra", in 1978.

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