Sentence examples for inland fighting from inspiring English sources
After gaining valuable experience in amphibious assaults and inland fighting, Allied planners returned to the plans to invade Northern France, now postponed to 1944.
The origin of modern AAVs can be traced to the 1920s and '30s, when Marine Corps planners, preparing for eventual war in the Pacific against the Japanese empire, considered the central problem posed by amphibious landings from the open seas specifically, how to deliver assault troops to a defended shore quickly and with sufficient force to establish a secure beachhead and continue fighting inland.
The two glider infantry regiments again operated as conventional infantry, securing a beachhead before fighting their way inland.
Besides fighting efficaciously with ironclads on the inland rivers, Lincoln's navy played an important role in a series of coastal and amphibious operations, some in conjunction with the Federal army.
All the colonizing, planting and fighting was done on the coast; the forested inlands were left to tribes, both of native Indians and of runaway African slaves, known locally as maroons.
Attached commandos, under Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, had the mission of fighting their way off the beach and pushing some 5 km (3 miles) inland toward the Orne River and Caen Canal bridges, where they were to link up with the airborne forces.
As the fighting dragged on, this sense of resentment only deepened, convincing many Alawites, particularly those in the more impoverished inland areas, that they were tools of the regime rather than its beneficiaries.
