In "Dreams", Akira Kurosawa has an eerie episode in which an officer who survived the war is haunted by a platoon of his men who died in battle.A different set of troubled souls haunt contemporary Japanese.
But the chance to see a platoon of his spectacular terra-cotta warriors, half a dozen or so of the thousands that were buried with the emperor, who died in 210 B.C., and excavated in the nineteen-seventies, is not to be missed.
He decided to platoon some of his veteran defensive players and benched his starting quarterback.
From his platoon of 40, two Marines, Daniel Coburn, his radio operator sergeant, and George (Doc) Gobles, a medic, were with him when a white sedan was spotted driving away from the scene.
In the summer of 1945, after Germany's surrender, Jozef, while still on active duty in that Polish division of the Red Army, requested and received his commander's permission to take an armed platoon of fellow-soldiers to his village of Klaj, near Kraków, in order finally to be reunited with his family or else to discover their fate.
Crowe launches into his lusty anthems as if a platoon of infantry, stationed in his immediate rear, had just fixed bayonets without giving sufficient warning.
Lieutenant Winchester and his platoon of young marines, meanwhile, were dealing with a grittier problem.
His platoon of 15 men walked through the mist judging the direction by the troops on their left.
He had served in Afghanistan between 1983 and 1985; a paratrooper, he led a platoon of thirty men after his commanding officer went down.
Russell Crowe: As Javert, Crowe has received the brunt of the ridicule — including from Anthony Lane, to whom he sounded "as if a platoon of infantry, stationed in his immediate rear, had just fixed bayonets without giving sufficient warning".
He and his platoon of Rangers were guarding the Haditha Dam, a strategic point northwest of Baghdad along the Euphrates River, when a shell burst 100 feet away and a piece of red hot shrapnel hit him in the face.
