Sentence examples for platoon captured from inspiring English sources

During a brief clash in early March, an Army platoon captured the hilltop from Albanian rebels, who had been using a schoolhouse there as a base to fire mortars into Macedonia.

In 2004, the bridge that his platoon captured was renamed in his honor.

At the Orne River bridge, a machine-gun nest was suppressed with mortar fire but no other defenders were found, and the two platoons captured the bridge before radioing Major Howard and informing him of their success.

Perhaps inevitably, the movie brings the Nazis into the action, the way the 1971 film did – and of course like the famous TV episode when the platoon capture some Germans and end up having to get cod and chips for them – with one demanding plaice.

A Walk in the Sun Under the command of Dana Andrews, an American infantry platoon captures a pair of Italian deserters.

As a junior officer, Captain Whitaker led a 30-man platoon that captured a beach-front casino from which the Germans were sending intense fire.

His accusations formed the basis of multiple charges against several SEALs, which led to the court-martial of Lieutenant Andrew Ledford, the commander of the platoon that captured Jamadi, for, among other things, allowing his troops to assault the prisoner.

During its attempts to secure its objectives, the regiment also gained a third Medal of Honor for the division when Private First Class Stuart S. Stryker posthumously received the award after leading a charge against a German machine-gun nest, creating a distraction to allow the rest of his platoon to capture the fortified position in which the machine-gun was situated.

During its attempts to secure its objectives, the regiment also gained a third Medal of Honor for the division when Private First Class Stuart S. Stryker posthumously received the award after leading a charge against a German machine gun nest, creating a distraction to allow the rest of his platoon to capture the fortified position the machine gun was situated in.

The bulk of these men 26 in all were from the mortar platoon but prisoners captured elsewhere were also among them.

Once St. Croix and Banville were cleared, the Canadian Scots pushed south to Colombiers, reinforced the platoons that had captured the bridge across the Seulles earlier in the day, and moved towards the Creully Caen road.