Sentence examples for parachute unit from inspiring English sources

When the Korean War started in 1950, he jumped into action with a parachute unit.

The AL-AUV is composed of a traditional torpedo-like AUV, an additional ex-range gliding wings unit and a descending parachute unit.

Parachutes cascade slowly to the ground, soldiers move in gauzy stop-action, lyrical music floats in the background, and HBO's expensive, enormous miniseries about an American parachute unit in World War II gets off to a disheartening start.

HBO's enormous mini-series about an American parachute unit during the Normandy invasion gets off to a gauzy start, but then quickly gets down to the visceral horror of war.

Already fooling the Italians with a bogus parachute unit, the First Special Air Service Brigade, he lent the name to Stirling, and the organisation has borne it ever since.

The 57th anniversary of the Normandy landings drew no statesmen or generals to memorial services here today, but at least the entertainment industry showed that it still loved World War II, with a splashy beachside premiere for "Band of Brothers," a 10-part HBO mini-series about an American parachute unit that is to be broadcast in the United States this fall.

He grew up in a Jewish orthodox family, attended a religious school, and served full-time in one of Israel's elite combat parachute units.

Based on the historian Stephen E. Ambrose's best seller, "Band of Brothers" follows a parachute infantry unit (Company E, known as Easy) on a real-life journey of such scope that it seems fit for Forrest Gump.

The happy few in the parachute infantry unit known as Easy Company took viewers with them onto Utah Beach on D-Day, through the Battle of the Bulge, and in the final days of the war, all the way to Eagle's Nest, Hitler's mountaintop fortress near Austria.

Tarantino met Pitt yesterday in France, where the actor is residing with wife Angelina Jolie following the birth of the couple's twins, to discuss the role of Lt Aldo Raine, aka Aldo The Apache, the hard-as-nails head honcho of the Bastards, a crack unit parachuted behind enemy lines with the aim of putting as many Nazis as possible under the ground.

The selected troops were volunteer parachutists chosen from the sappers of 9th Field Company (Airborne) Royal Engineers and 261st Field Park Company (Airborne) Royal Engineers attached to 1st Airborne Division, because the only parachute-trained Royal Engineers unit in existence at the time, 1st Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers, was already deployed in North Africa with 1st Parachute Brigade.