parachute troops in a sentence
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- This led to the disbandment of the EICPNAP and to its replacement with the Parachute Troops Transport and Training Squadron (, ETTTP ).
- But after they flew to Yamoussoukro, arriving at a small airport bristling with heavily armed French parachute troops, delays crept into the program.
- As part of this new organization, the re-raised Commando units and the Special Operation Troops were integrated in the BriRR, joining the parachute troops.
- Parachute troops beginning in 1942 were issued Jump boots-high-lacing rubber-soled leather boots which were intended to provide additional ankle support when landing by parachute.
- The history of airborne forces began after World War I, when Brigadier General William Mitchell first conceived the idea of parachuting troops into combat.
- While designated for issue to soldiers not armed with the bayonet, it was especially designed for such shock units as parachute troops and rangers ."
- Transoceans'most famous dispatch was early on June 6, 1944 when its German language broadcast announced the landing of Allied parachute troops on the French coast.
- In 1963, with the beginning of the Ultramar War, the Air Force increased the size of the parachute troops and started introducing new parachuting techniques.
- With the end of the Colonial War, the Portuguese parachute troops were reorganized as the Paratroopers Corps, with the Light Parachute Brigade as its operational unit.
- At the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, CAT supplied the French garrison by parachuting troops and supplies with covert USAF C-119 inscribed with French Air Force insignia.