Sentence examples for drop of supplies from inspiring English sources

Alongside this, the US-led air campaign to deliver relief to civilians fleeing Isis continued with a third drop of supplies taking place on Saturday night.

Until the fighting stops in places such as Unity State, Rauchenstein adds, humanitarians will remain absent and frustrated, "tilting at windmills" as and when lulls in the violence allow them back in for a rushed drop of supplies.

It has also carried out a second air drop of supplies to the Yazidi people on a mountainside in northern Iraq.

The US later also confirmed a second air-drop of supplies to displaced people in the Sinjar area of northern Iraq.

The drops of supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq were "intended to enable continued resistance against Isil's attempts to overtake Kobane," Centcom said in a statement.

The US has carried out airstrikes in an attempt to stem the advance of the IS in Iraq, and carried out air drops of supplies to the Yazidi people on a mountainside in the north of the country.

Air Force C-130's, their rear doors opened so that parachutes can yank pallets out of the plane in flight, could glide in close and drop tons of supplies onto the airfield, without their wheels ever touching Afghan soil.

Since June, authorities have given permission for one severely ill boy to be evacuated, and allowed aid groups worried about starvation to make a single drop of food supplies by crane.

The US carried out an air drop of food supplies, the first of its kind, to the Al Bu Nimr tribe just a few days ago.

The first RAF air drop of emergency supplies, including water, food and solar lanterns, to Mount Sinjar took place overnight on Saturday - but the second attempt on Sunday was aborted.

As for his worst moments of the war, he flew 28 sorties, they had to do with General Partridge, now head of the Nort American Air Defense Command, & the dropping of food supplies to the half-starved Dutch awaiting liberation.