Sentence examples for wave of troops from inspiring English sources

Another wave of troops arrived.

(During the Normandy invasion, he was in the fourth wave of troops to hit Omaha Beach).

Another wave of troops, mostly American but fighting under the United Nations banner, then reversed the North Korean tide.

He was in the first wave of troops to land on Omaha Beach on D-Day and his unit's lone survivor of a machine-gun ambush.

But after Russia tried to extort money from me I sent wave after wave of troops in, spending years fighting a war I just couldn't win.

Though Lawrence imagined the Syrian and Armenian uprisings that might further undermine Ottoman control of the Alexandretta region, the British looked westward, designating the Dardanelles as the place to send wave after wave of troops.

Sophie Pinkham writes today on newyorker.com about the latest wave of troop mobilization for the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where thousands of soldiers have been killed or wounded.

Yet in early December Turkey's military went in with tanks, urban assault vehicles and waves of troops to root out the young Kurdish militants.

The Federals sent waves of troops up to the guns, but none of them got over the parapets, and as a result, Davies was permitted to remain sweating on the ground instead of getting shot.

As waves of troops marched north, allied warplanes and cruise missiles bombarded Baghdad, striking Mr. Hussein's palaces, military and Baath Party headquarters and other pillars of power that supported the government.

When whistles blew at 7 30 a.m., the successive waves of troops began their planned 100-yards-a-minute advance.