Sentence examples for the largest combat from inspiring English sources

LAST month, 2,850 of New Jersey's 6,000 National Guard citizen-soldiers left for Iraq, the largest combat deployment of the state's Guard since World War II.

This was probably the largest combat action between NDH forces and the Chetniks in the previous two years.

He was promoted to something called II Field Force Vietnam, the largest combat command in the world at the time.

The Superfortress was the largest combat aircraft of World War II and boasted a heavy maximum bomb load, long range and powerful defensive armament.

The strike, which involved 39 aircraft, was the largest combat operation in NATO's history up to that time; nonetheless, it was criticized as a "pinprick" that did little real damage to Serb capabilities, only temporarily disabling runways.

What seems, at present, to be inadequately appreciated in some quarters in the West is how credible and effective use of airpower, combined with the large, combat-experienced ground force that presently is being amassed, will alter facts on the ground.

Military officials said the ground operations involved American and Afghan troops, as well as contingents from Australia and Canada, Denmark, France, Germany and Norway, for a total of about 1,500, making it by far the largest ground combat operation of the war.

The Battle of Lima Site 85 resulted in the largest ground combat loss of USAF personnel during the Vietnam War.

Congress applauded the president for notifying it about this small noncombat mission but did nothing about having its laws ignored in the much larger combat operation in Libya.

Within months of the invasion, it became the largest overseas American combat base since the Vietnam War.

Fresh is credited with being one of the largest efforts to combat food deserts at a state or local level.