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The phrase "a sortie on a" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a specific type of mission or outing, but it lacks context to be usable.
Example: "The military planned a sortie on a reconnaissance mission to gather intelligence."
Alternatives: "an outing on a" or "a mission on a".
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While Russia's troops still sit in neighboring Georgia, making an elaborate point about who wields the military power in the Caucasus Mountains and Central Asia, Moscow has begun a sortie on a totally different front: Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled natural-gas monopoly, has offered to buy all of Azerbaijan's gas exports.
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Brown, resuming command, launched a sortie on September 17 that destroyed so much of the enemy artillery that the British abandoned the siege a few days later.
Australia joined the Grand Fleet in a sortie on 29 March, in response to intelligence that the German fleet was leaving port as the precursor to a major operation.
Facing logistical problems, the new Polish Commander-in-Chief Jan Krukowiecki, who had replaced Dembiński in mid-August, ordered a sortie on the right bank.
On 16 March 1943, Newton led a sortie on the Salamaua Isthmus in which his Boston was hit repeatedly by Japanese anti-aircraft fire, damaging fuselage, wings, fuel tanks and undercarriage.
The squadron joined the Grand Fleet in a sortie on 29 March, in response to intelligence that the German fleet was leaving port as the precursor to a major operation.
Reports from opposition activists, including the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group based in Britain with a network of contacts in Syria, said the official end of the cease-fire on Monday brought a large expansion of aerial bombardments on Tuesday, including a sortie by a fighter jet that dropped four bombs on the Damascus neighborhood of Jobar.
On October 10, during a sortie against a new Russian attack, Kościuszko was wounded and captured at Maciejowice.
F/O Donald Murdo Mackenzie was awarded the DFC on 27 February 1945, having destroyed a Ju 88 on 30 July 1944, and then two more in a single sortie on 24 December.
Indefatigables first mission was a brief sortie on 1 July 1944 to provide air cover for the ocean liner that was ferrying American troops to Britain.
Promoted flying officer, he achieved four "kills" in a single sortie on 12 May 1942, destroying two Junkers Ju 52 cargo planes and two escorting Bf 110s from a German air transport convoy operating between Crete and North Africa.
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