Sentence examples for antiaircraft unit from inspiring English sources

It was Tuesday before an antiaircraft unit in San Diego could shoot him down.

In 1941 he was compelled to join the Hitler Youth, and in 1943 he was drafted into the German military, serving in an antiaircraft unit in Bavaria before being sent to Hungary to set tank traps in 1945.

The Second Company Governor's Horse Guard was activated in World War I as a machine-gun support unit in France and in World War II as an antiaircraft unit in Australia.

Reared in a Catholic family in Bavaria, where the church was seen in many ways as a bulwark against Nazism, Benedict was later drafted into the German Army, where he served in an antiaircraft unit.

He admitted that he was a member of the Hitler Youth as a boy and believed at the time in the group's aims, but long claimed that he was drafted into an antiaircraft unit, never mentioning the Waffen-SS until he was 78.

A tummler, in Leo Rosten's description was a "noise-maker, fun-generator, hilarity-organizer and organized buffoon" whose task was "to guarantee, to the blasé (but insatiable) patrons of a summer resort that most dubious of vacation boons: 'never a dull moment!" Mr. Hackett served three years in the Army with an antiaircraft unit during World War II.

He said the planes returned into Turkish airspace after coming under fire from antiaircraft units.

The Fourth Infantry Division has the usual panoply of artillery, aviation and antiaircraft units that are needed in war but have little role in peacekeeping and security duties.

Each also has separate artillery, antitank and antiaircraft units as well as snipers, engineers and infantry, according to the paper, titled "Hamas in Combat," with forcewide units handling communications, logistics, smuggling, weapons, intelligence and public affairs.

South Korean Air Force planes were ordered to patrol the skies over the stadium on the day of the match, and chemical warfare and antiaircraft units were poised for any contingency, the spokesman said.

Today, women serve in combat roles in many IDF units including the light infantry brigade Karakal, antiaircraft units, the Home Front Command, and the Border Police, in the Navy and in the Air Force.