Sentence examples for airborne operation from inspiring English sources

Compared to system evaluation in airborne operation, this method has the benefit of zero risk, low costs, and short duration of evaluation cycles.

On 17 September 1944, a day after Hitler ordered the offensive in the west, the British attempted the disastrous airborne operation known as Operation Market Garden, losing 14,000 men to no purpose.

KABUL, Afghanistan — American Special Forces troops and Afghan commandos killed two influential tribal leaders and a number of their followers in western Afghanistan in a joint airborne operation on Wednesday night, military officials said Thursday.

Venezuelan security forces rescued the kidnapped Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos in an airborne operation on Friday after finding him in a mountainous area of northern Venezuela, officials said.

It had been the division's first major airborne operation.

Operation Varsity was a successful large-scale airborne operation.

The operation was the last large-scale Allied airborne operation of World War II.

This, the first airborne operation in Hungarian history, was not without incident.

It was this tactical unit that would spearhead the first strategic airborne operation in history.

It was these men who took part in the first British airborne operation, Operation Colossus, on 10 February 1941.

A little known third airborne operation, Operation Niwi, was also conducted on 10 May in southern Belgium.