Sentence examples for platoon off from inspiring English sources

They sent the Yankee platoon off to combat and my father was left behind to manage the "store" in Manila.

Willem Dafoe has been in over 60 films: Platoon, Off Limits, Streets of Fire, To Live and Die in L.A., Born on the Fourth of July, The English Patient, The Last Temptation of Christ, Mississippi Burning, The Boondock Saints, Spider-Man, and The Aviator, and voice roles in Fantastic Mr. Fox and Finding Nemo.

As soon as 1st Platoon set off, the insurgents struck with a devastating L-shaped ambush.

The film, directed by Tay Garnett, starred Robert Taylor as a crusty sergeant who took control of a platoon cut off from other American forces in the Philippines.

There, at the extreme right flank of the 25th Division, this platoon drove off a North Korean force after a fierce fight.

A platoon of soldiers cordoned off the home as if it were a raid, pulled Ali outside and then went into the home seemingly to conduct a search.

Battalions, companies, and platoons, cut off and isolated, fought independently of higher control and help except for airdrops which supplied many of them.

On Thursday morning, at the Westgate entrance, vans usually used for taking tourists on safari disgorged a platoon of Western investigators wearing zip-off nylon pants and handguns on their hips.

He and his platoon were dropped off in surrounding villages to look for evaders, grabbing boys who didn't have permits off the streets or from their homes.

However, the entire platoon is killed off one by one by the sniper, until only Murdock is left.

Under a mortar and artillery bombardment, the Germans attacked A Company 1/7th Queen's in the town and a platoon was cut off and captured.