Sentence examples for platoon managed from inspiring English sources

It was actually named for Sergeant Alvin C. York, a hellion-turned-pacifist-turned-doughboy from Pall Mall, Tennessee who, on October 8, 1918, having already lost most of the men in his platoon, managed almost single-handedly to kill twenty-eight German soldiers and capture a hundred and thirty-two more.

The brigade defence platoon managed to hold out until a counterattack by the 9th Parachute Battalion cleared the enemy away.

However, when one German platoon managed to knock out three French Char B1s the French tank crews panicked, and drove away to the south.

Under Charlton's leadership, the platoon managed to overcome the Chinese infantry positions, but it spotted a Chinese bunker on the far side of the top of the hill, where the Chinese mortars were firing on them.

With the New Zealanders on the St . Quentin Canaland the adjacent Scheldt River, a platoon had managed to cross it and reach the village of Crèvecœur.

A platoon, including engineers, managed to fight their way to the bridge.

A platoon under Lieutenant Miller managed to reach German lines and blockade itself in a communications trench for over an hour, under fire from Allied artillery, until withdrawing to British lines.

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Unsupervised by CCHQ to start with, it would later be adopted as a critical element in the party's "ground war" since – unlike Team2015 – it had managed to deliver platoons of committed Conservative activists to the places that needed them most in a series of crucial byelections the year before.

With the benefit of covering mortar fire, Averill and a platoon of the battalion reserve company, managed to cross the moat and found themselves at the inner ramparts.

The company second in command who had been bringing up the rear, reached the village and found the 3rd Platoon only had nine men left but they had managed to clear the village Château and the 1st Platoon had cleared its grounds.