Sentence examples for its sortie from inspiring English sources

A delayed departure of the German fleet for its sortie (which had been redirected to the Skagerrak) and the failure of five U-boats, including U-66, to receive the coded message warning of the British advance caused Scheer's anticipated ambush to be a "complete and disappointing failure".

A delayed departure of the German High Seas Fleet for its sortie (which had been redirected to the Skagerrak) and the failure of several of the U-boats stationed to the north to receive the coded message warning of the British advance caused Scheer's anticipated ambush to be a "complete and disappointing failure".

A delayed departure of the German fleet for its sortie (which had been redirected to the Skagerrak) and the failure of five U-boats to receive the coded message warning of the British advance caused Scheer's anticipated ambush to be a "complete and disappointing failure".

A delayed departure of the German fleet for its sortie (which had been redirected to the Skagerrak) and the failure of several of the U-boats stationed to the north to receive the coded message warning of the British advance caused Scheer's anticipated ambush to be a "complete and disappointing failure".

But the company truly earned that accolade on Wednesday night with its first sortie into pure 19th-century classicism.

Harris's boss, Charles Portal, was thrilled to learn in 1944 that a single Lancaster bomber had eliminated more German man- hours on its first sortie than the number of British man-hours required to build it, suggesting that all subsequent sorties would be "clear profit".Mr Overy's final verdict, however, is damning.

The following month, No. 617 Squadron undertook its first sortie under the leadership of Wing Commander Leonard Cheshire.

However No. 24 Squadron, which was already based in the theatre of operations, was able to carry out its first sortie on 17 January, bombing targets along Shaggy Ridge in support of the Australian 7th Division.

No. 75 Squadron flew its last combat sortie on 27 April.

The last time he was in the Northern Marianas, almost 60 years ago, he piloted the Enola Gay, a B-29, on its Aug. 6, 1945, sortie to Hiroshima, the world's first nuclear bomb attack.

Ariel Sharon made his sortie onto the Temple Mount on Sept. 28 last year.