Sentence examples for waves of troops from inspiring English sources

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.

They are surrounded by waves of troops attacking one another with grenade and rocket launchers, flamethrowers, submachine guns, missiles.

Instead of ordering additional waves of troops to the slaughter, he should have retreated to a safe distance and considered alternative actions.

Another wave of troops arrived.

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

"It's clear they will be part of the first wave of troops," he said.

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.