Sentence examples for a single platoon from inspiring English sources
Once Colley has recounted this complex back story, he narrows his focus to a single platoon, one of the 52 that fought in Germany in the final months of the war.
The book, which came out in 1948, the same year as Irwin Shaw's "Young Lions," is a brutal, naturalistic depiction of a single platoon in the South Pacific, with enough details about the sex lives of G.I.'s to bring a blush to the cheeks of not only Masters and Johnson, but a Kardashian or two.
For one year, Hetherington and Junger accompanied a single platoon on a tour of duty in the dangerous Korangal valley, in which the soldiers – horribly exposed, and with a knowledge of the terrain so far inferior to the enemy's that it was practically blindfold guesswork – had to build a forward outpost to establish their position.
A single platoon of five Carden-Loyd Mark VI tankettes used by the Artillery completed the list of Dutch armour.
A single platoon of the regiment remained but the ARSK troops did not exploit the opportunity to destroy the bridgehead.
Countless major cities have already fallen, and the film focuses on a single platoon sent into Los Angeles to search for survivors and transport them to safety.
One of them is Joe Bellino, who won the Heisman Trophy 40 years ago as a single-platoon halfback on a Navy team that finished its regular season 9-1 and reached the Orange Bowl.
By January, its American force was down to a single understaffed platoon.
In preparing to shoot Lone Survivor, Schliessler was inspired by British-American photojournalist Tim Hetherington's war photography book Infidel, which details a single U.S. platoon, assigned to an outpost in the Korengal Valley during the war in Afghanistan.
Indirect connectivity in a platoon on a single lane when vehicles in this platoon are connected to each other; (2).
Only twelve landed on target; of these gliders a single Horsa, carrying a platoon of infantry from the Staffords, landed near the Ponte Grande Bridge.
