Sentence examples for surviving platoon from inspiring English sources

On the suggestion of his wife, Mr. Gomes contacted other surviving platoon mates he keeps in touch with to see if they would be interested in pooling money to sponsor a team in the league.

After the funeral, his surviving platoon-mates confess to Jacob they too have been experiencing hallucinations, and agree to seek the truth about the incident through legal proceedings.

By nightfall, the Japanese overran and nearly annihilated the platoon, killing 24 Marines with only a few wounded members of the platoon surviving.

The surviving G.I.s in the platoon insisted that they were not going to continue the mission, and said as much to Captain Michles.

Having survived as a platoon leader, he emerged as a lieutenant and served as an Argyll territorial until 1965.

Only eight of the platoon survived, and the two soldiers had come through only by lying still for 15 hours pretending to be dead while the enemy soldiers passed them.

At least as far as the league goes, Mr. Behrens saw two of the surviving members of Mr. Keller's platoon travel from Kentucky and Massachusetts to finally get their due at Yalesville's recent opening day ceremonies, where they threw out the first pitch for the Currahees' game.

A Marine complies and reveals himself as Anthony, the only surviving member of the 07th Platoon.

Less than seven weeks later he was the only surviving member of his fourteen-man platoon and he got new orders to walk point for another outfit.

Gilchrist was unable to oblige and so the Staffords regrouped behind the 11th Battalion's positions; roughly 100 surviving men forming into five small platoons under Cain's command.

Yet he was the only member of the platoon who survived the Somme.