Sentence examples for air support missions from inspiring English sources

Troops would be confined to bases; they would not be able to fly air support missions or otherwise participate in any way in combat operations, officials have said.

The parachute fragmentation (parafrag) bomb gave the light bombers increased accuracy for close air support missions.

A-10s flew close air support missions, attacking Bosnian Serb artillery and positions.

"Fritz" Geißhardt is credited with 102 victories in 642 combat missions, including 37 close air support missions.

Following the success of Overlord, Loring continued to fly air support missions for the remainder of the conflict.

Gruppe flew close air support missions in support of German airborne landings by the Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers) in the Netherlands.

However, these attributes have long been ignored, even denied, because of the philosophical aversion to the close air support mission.

The air operation centre in Yemen, it added, directed a "close air support mission" to target the site without approval from the coalition's command.

Due to the difficult "dual key" authorization measure, NATO did not fulfill its close air support mission for several months.

Loring rose to the rank of major and posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on November 22, 1952 above Kunwha, North Korea during a close air support mission.

But explosions tonight suggested that American warplanes were already conducting close-air support missions as allied ground troops tightened their noose around the city.