Sentence examples for delivered troops from inspiring English sources

From 14 September-9 October, numerous Tokyo Express runs delivered troops from the Japanese 2nd Infantry Division as well as General Hyakutake to Guadalcanal.

However, in August 1945, Tashkent delivered troops and cargo in support of the Soviet invasions of Japanese-held Manchuria, Korea, Sakhalin, and the Kurile Islands.

Throughout the last week of September and the first week of October, Tokyo Express runs delivered troops from the Japanese 2nd Infantry Division to Guadalcanal.

Sunday morning, the copter delivered troops in the Dai Chopan district of Zabol province, about 190 miles southwest of Kabul, said Gulab Shah Alikheil, spokesman for the provincial governor.

As a C-141 Starlifter transport aircraft commander, Collins participated in the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada in 1983, delivering troops and evacuating medical students.

In 1963 Kinnard was credited with development of the "air assault" tactic of using helicopters to deliver troops onto the battlefield.

The two men were transported back to Normandy, where they had been assigned to the lightweight, engineless aircraft that were towed to behind the enemy lines to deliver troops, equipment and ammunition.

Unlike landing craft, which were principally designed to deliver troops and equipment to shore before retiring to the sea, amphibious vehicles were capable of transporting and accompanying military forces as they advanced inland.

The Army needs more transportable divisions and the Navy needs to increase its capacity to deliver troops to distant battlefields, as well as maintain the aircraft carrier groups that function as the equivalent of offshore bases.

There is also a need for additional C-17 transport planes to deliver troops abroad quickly, as well as unmanned reconnaissance craft for 24-hour surveillance of remote regions like Afghanistan.

With pudgy hands that constantly trembled, he still did it himself, turning out stunning photos that captured the helter-skelter, the fear and the pathos of war; his shot of a swarm of Huey helicopters delivering troops to the field almost includes the noise.