Sentence examples for landing troops from inspiring English sources

Helicopters were used for resupply and medical evacuation, as well as for landing troops.

We see the difficulties faced by landing troops as they approached Hitler's "Atlantic Wall," with its narrow, slitted concrete bunkers.

For the average person, they are assault ships, capable of transporting and landing troops, armoured vehicles and tanks.

One hour earlier, in real time, Japanese transport ships began landing troops on the east coast of Malaya, prior to overrunning the peninsula and capturing the "impregnable" British bastion of Singapore 10 short weeks later.

The British started sailing into the Narrows and landing troops in Staten Island in June, and by August their forces totaled 430 ships and 45,000 soldiers and sailors -- the biggest British expeditionary force until Normandy in World War II.

When we weren't involved in landing troops and supplies, at night each task force would take turns going up the Slot for four or five hours at high speed, returning to Iron Bottom Bay, on Tulagi, thirty miles north of Guadalcanal.

It was Winston Churchill's idea to land troops on that coast".

The allies landed troops to besiege and bombard the city for 349 days.

But Iraqi forces soon surrounded the building and landed troops on the roof.

When such help did not materialize, Turkey took matters into its own hands, and landed troops on the island.

On July 6 the Japanese landed troops on Guadalcanal, one of the southern Solomons, and began to construct an air base.