parachute troops in a sentence
Examples
- The Airborne Forces of the British Army consists of the parachute troops and glider-borne troops of all arms of service.
- Japanese airborne units suffered heavy casualties during the Dutch East Indies campaign, and were rarely used as parachute troops afterward.
- Following the German airborne assault on 20 May, the 2 / 7th became heavily engaged fighting German parachute troops around Canea.
- Further field testing convinced Student that a vehicle was needed to deliver the heavy weapons for the lightly armed parachute troops.
- On 11 July, Patton ordered his reserve parachute troops from the U . S . 1st Infantry Division's bridgehead at Gela.
- When the fighting broke out following the arrival of German parachute troops on 20 May, the regiment was transported to Maleme airfield.
- Although tasked primarily with training parachute troops, it was also directed to investigate the use of gliders to transport troops into battle.
- In September 1943 he landed on Corsica as part of a parachute troop, and took part in the liberation of the island.
- But after mediators flew Saturday to Yamoussoukro, arriving at a small airport bristling with heavily armed French parachute troops, delays crept in.
- By then a first lieutenant ( " Oberleutnant " ), he volunteered to join the Luftwaffe's parachute troops, the battle of H�rtgenwald.