Sentence examples for sortie between from inspiring English sources

Out of 2,936 RAF pilots who flew at least one authorised operational sortie between July and October 1940, 595 came from other parts of Europe, the Empire or the Commonwealth.

The kill rates per sortie between the AC-130A/E and the B-57G made it clear which system was dominant in the role of "truck hunter," in reference to the primary targets of the campaign.

Although the siege was partially lifted soon afterwards and a successful sortie allowed a communication route between the city and the rest of Poland, a large Russian force remained on the left bank of the Vistula and continued to threaten the city.

And yet the 100,000 close-air-support sorties flown between 2011 and 2015 -- that's more than one sortie per Taliban fighter -- did not, alas, yield "some version of victory".

On the night of 28/29 December 1915, while making her sortie, Helgoland rammed and sank the French submarine Monge between Brindisi and the Albanian port of Durazzo.

The sortie marked the latest instalment in the five-month conflict between a Saudi Arabia-led coalition and Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who control the Red Sea port.

In one particular sortie on 12 July 1918, Howell attacked, in conjunction with one other aircraft, a formation of between ten and fifteen German machines; he personally shot down five of these planes and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.

This first sortie ended badly.

Friday's sortie was a preliminary meeting.

Our first sortie was to Scotland.

The first sortie carried 80 plants.