Sentence examples for paratrooper unit from inspiring English sources

North African Jews settled here briefly after the conflict, then it was taken over by an Israeli paratrooper unit.

The first was Malvin Brown, part of an all-black army paratrooper unit assigned to firefighting in 1945.

Tall and blond, Trautmann had grown up in Germany as an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth, then served with a Luftwaffe paratrooper unit on the Russian front.

He later joined the Pathfinders, an exclusive paratrooper unit that jumped behind enemy lines to provide logistical help to Allied missions, including in the Battle of Bulge.

The Special Air Service, a paratrooper unit of the British military, administers special training in firearms to authorized police officers in the United Kingdom.

He qualified as an intelligence officer, and got orders to join the 82nd Airborne Division, a paratrooper unit in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

In fact the growing presence of Muslim recruits in the army (including elite paratrooper units) is a sign of the growing integration of Muslims in France.

The structure of the Luftwaffe very much reflected the whims of its commander, Hermann Göring, and over three million men served in air force, air defense, and paratrooper units from 1939 to 1945.

Soldiers from an elite paratroopers unit milled around inside the dank enclosure.

But for the past 10 days, it has been a ghost town inhabited only by Israeli soldiers, many of them from a paratroopers' unit, the 101, founded in 1953 by Ariel Sharon, the former prime minister, as the first elite Israeli unit aimed at striking Palestinian guerrillas infiltrating from Gaza.

The Israelis said that just after midnight, the elite paratroopers unit slipped over the invisible border between the rest of Lebanon and the nine-mile-deep security zone, which Israel established as it withdrew from other parts of the country in 1985.