Sentence examples for ii platoon from inspiring English sources

They seem as carefully selected for diversity as the soldiers in a World War II platoon picture.

His last great role was that of another determined World War II platoon leader in Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One (1980).

Also, the upcoming release of "The Monuments Men," George Clooney's film chronicling the World War II platoon assigned to rescue endangered artworks, is sure to incite conversation regarding this regrettable and fascinating historical moment.

Consisting of three officers and 73 enlisted men, it was organized as a company of two platoons based on the Table of Organization and Equipment documents used to raise Ranger units during World War II.

Then "The Bonnie Parker Story" and, in 1959, "Paratroop Command," a realistic World War II adventure about a platoon pariah who has to prove himself.

Bob was a World War II veteran whose entire platoon was almost wiped out by a machine-gun nest in France when he was 18.

He joined the Army in World War II, became a tank platoon commander in Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army, and fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

In World War II, led an infantry platoon in Italy and France; wounded out of action and awarded a purple heart; subsequently assigned to stevedore battalion and eventually stationed 12 miles from Hiroshima.

A little like old World War II movies where a platoon served as a crucible for an idealized cross-section of America — the softhearted tough guy from Brooklyn, the standoffish bookworm, the fast-talking card shark, et al. — a bank robbery in "The Nine" throws together an array of contemporary archetypes.

On the basis of the developed platoon model, Part II investigates various important characteristics of vehicle platoons and derives their statistical distribution models, including platoon size, within-platoon headway, between-platoon headway and platoon speed.

The monument was designed and erected, and the park land was donated by the parents of Lieutenant Kemper, a Mamaroneck man who died at age 24 in World War II when he was leading his platoon in an attack on an enemy machine gun post in Normandy, and whose name is on the monument.