Sentence examples for materiel on from inspiring English sources
Describes the actual landing of men and materiel on the Sicilian coast.
(In military warfare, the classic example is Stalingrad, in which the embattled Russians inflicted huge casualties and losses of materiel on the Germans and their allies).
He highlights that the colossal loss of materiel on the eastern front – without having won a decisive victory – was bleeding the German economy to death – reaching "a total impasse".
The German withdrawal from the Dalmatian cities of Zadar and Šibenik to Fiume, codenamed Operation Viking Operation Wikingerr) involved transporting troops and materiel on board two ship convoys, protected by the Kriegsmarine.
Among the abandoned North Korean materiel on the hill, Schauer's men found twenty-five American BARs and submachine guns, a large American radio, thirty boxes of unopened American fragmentation and concussion grenades, and some American rations.
German losses, while only one-tenth that of the Soviet losses, were much more difficult to sustain, as there were no further reserves of men and materiel to draw on.
That cost them men and materiel," said one Deir al-Zour activist who was interviewed via social media and agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity.
Turnbull said Cormann would act as the special minister of state while Brough was stood aside, and the defence minister, Marise Payne, would take on defence materiel and science.
Hyakutake realized that, in order to send sufficient troops and materiel to defeat the Allied forces on Guadalcanal, he could no longer support the major Japanese offensive on the Kokoda Track in New Guinea.
He still has happy memories of working alongside Gul Agha Shirzai, the local strongman in Kandahar, who may have been loathed by the people but could be counted on to deliver American war materiel to anywhere in the region for only $5,000 a truckload.
On May 6 the support elements sailed on the SS Cape Victory for the Marianas, while group materiel was shipped on the SS Emile Berliner.
