On June 22, 1941, some 3.9 million Axis troops launched Operation Barbarossa, a massive and bloody invasion of the Soviet Union.

For Moscow, the perverse result is that a bloody invasion has undermined its valid interest in promoting a stable, nonaligned, non-fanatic regime in a neighboring land.

The fleet had recently completed operations in the Gilbert Islands, taking Tarawa in a bloody and costly invasion in the process.

Correll argues that the Smithsonian is forgetting that the atom bomb ended the war and made a bloody invasion unnecessary.

Their timing could not have been better, since Byzantium was still reeling from a bloody coup and a bloody invasion.

We came here to evaluate Ganymean science, not to stop a bloody invasion.

To Chinese, Japan's reluctance to apologize formally suggests a dark ambivalence about one of the bloodiest invasions in human history.

Grumman was pushing to get two new fighter designs to our fleet carriers in anticipation of a bloody invasion of Japan.

Thetroubles, as you see fit to call them, are a bloody invasion and a bloody war!

No mention of the illegal and bloody invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan until the FO complains about the attacks in the gulf.