Sentence examples for french tank from inspiring English sources

At one point she came under German artillery fire aboard a French tank.

When World War II broke out, Malraux enlisted as a private soldier in a French tank unit.

Singled outfor special praise was a monstrous new French tank, the AMX 30 (we have no idea what AMX 30 stands for).

But it is still a big undertaking for a small Swabian community like Stetten to absorb an additional French tank regiment and its families.

"Have you heard about the new French tank?" a United States Marine commander asked his men in Kuwait in March 2003, only days before his unit crossed the border into Iraq.

Their arguments led to an estrangement that was not made up until Fred lay dying of wounds suffered as a tank officer in the First World War; along with one other officer in his regiment, Major George S. Patton (who carried a pearl-handled revolver even then), Fred had volunteered for the first French tank corps, in the days when tank officers ran alongside the tanks to direct their operations.

The French artillery concealed in wooded areas proved more potent than the tanks.

The pro-Ouattara forces had received support by French tanks and helicopters.

Witnesses in Cocody saw French tanks join the Ouattara forces who had encircled Mr Gbagbo's residence and the sounds of a ferocious fight echoed around the lagoon.

Consequently, in 1939 the British Army did not have a single armoured division, and the French tanks were distributed in small packets throughout the infantry divisions.

On January 22nd a column of dozens of French tanks and armoured vehicles was seen heading north to Diabaly and, presumably, beyond.