Sentence examples for drop zones from inspiring English sources

A significant error occurred when the pilots of the transports carrying 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment dropped much of the regiment several miles from their designated drop zones, with the mis-dropped units actually landing in the British landing zones.

But the drop zones still made him uncomfortable.

'They pass intelligence on little bits of paper left in drop zones to be collected,' he said.

Those potential drop zones look much as they did in 2012 — suggesting a rocket of similar design, experts said.

Another possibility is the use of powered parachutes – "guided precision aerial delivery systems" – launched from aircraft from neighbouring countries and steered to the Syrian drop zones by GPS.

Drop zones need to be – at a minimum – the size of a football pitch; more commonly 200 metres by 1,000 metres.

The drop zones for the 101st Division were labeled A, C, and D and were in the vicinity of roads leading from Utah Beach.

This, in turn, makes the drop zones vastly more of a challenge, especially as in Syria many areas in need are besieged cities, in which large open areas are rare and parachutes can easily become entangled in buildings.

Inside a defended area some 30 miles round, Navarre (pictured above, left) set up a series of parachute drop-zones, an airstrip and a string of heavily defended strongpoints, with now-famous codenames, including Eliane and Huguette.The result, and General Navarre's dramatic failures of operational command, are history.

These are some of the code-names from long ago of the defended hill outposts and paratroop drop-zones set in the waving elephant grass of the Indochinese highlands at Dien Bien Phu.It is the showdown between the French and the Viet Minh that took place in 1954 that is the subject of this account.

All of its constituent units being scattered throughout the area due to poor navigation and heavy cloud cover and several of the drop-zones either not being marked correctly or marked correctly but incorrectly positioned due to pathfinder error.