Sentence examples for airborne divisions from inspiring English sources

Courtesy of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. German forces in the Cotentin capable of countering the airborne divisions were two regiments from the 91st Division (including one battalion of tanks) and the 6th Parachute Regiment.

Four heavy divisions and two airborne divisions are available for deployment.

■ Whether the Army's 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions could be charged with fighting in tunnels.

Served in the 13th and 82nd Airborne Divisions in World War II.

A large number of other Army forces with an array of capabilities -- including elements of the 82nd Airborne and 101st Airborne divisions -- would be assigned to special missions.

Soldiers from the Army's 10th Mountain and 101st Airborne Divisions moved quickly to fill the breach left by their bloodied Afghan allies.

In the predawn hours of D-Day, units of the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions were airdropped inland from the landing beach.

Not twelve but more than a hundred press people went ashore with the troops on D Day and some were there beforehand, having parachuted in with airborne divisions.

Paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd and 101st airborne divisions were night-dropped inland on the Cotentin in order to support the amphibious assault at nearby Utah Beach.

German forces in the Cotentin capable of countering the airborne divisions were two regiments from the 91st Division (including one battalion of tanks) and the 6th Parachute Regiment.

Special Operations troops and soldiers of the 10th Mountain and the 101st Airborne Divisions have scrambled from Chinook helicopters to engage pockets of heavily armed Qaeda fighters or force them to flee outward toward waiting coalition forces.