Sentence examples for boat squadron from inspiring English sources

He was killed in a PT boat squadron in the Solomon Islands during World War II.

Dalby uses a Falcon 900B executive jet to move his team -- which is composed of 8 to 12 men, all of whom have served in England's Special Boat Squadron, the equivalent of the United States Navy Seals.

There were films like John Ford's "They Were Expendable," about a PT boat squadron in the Philippines, and Lewis Milestone's "Walk in theSun," about an American battalion attacking German troops in Italy, that presented a complex view of heroism and warfare.

MacArthur inspected the PT boat squadron on 1 March.

As a chief aviation ordnanceman, he was in charge of twenty men whose primary task was to maintain the weapons of a PBY Catalina flying boat squadron.

The battle resulted in the loss of an entire German torpedo boat squadron, and prevented the mining of heavily trafficked shipping lanes, such as the mouth of the Thames River.

Also on display is a four-foot-long model of PT-109 as it appeared the day it sunk and a case with the colorful patches of 43 PT boat squadrons.

The two RAAF flying boat squadrons operated intensively throughout June, but did not sink any German ships or submarines.

The Australian flying boat squadrons assigned to Coastal Command also continued to support the invasion during July and August.

The U.S. Navy established a PT boat base at Morotai on 16 September when the tenders and arrived with motor torpedo boat squadrons 9, 10, 18 and 33 and their 41 boats.

And Marshal Balbo of Italy--reember when he flew his whole flying-boat squadron over to the Chicago World's Fair.