"island" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Ordered to the strategic island of Corregidor, the battalion fiercely defended their assigned sectors against overwhelming enemy forces.
- All that stands between them and us are open water and a few strategic islands.
- In response, the Japanese Navy made an all-out effort to protect that strategic island, even though doing so meant denuding its remaining carriers of aircraft.
- Whipple operated on escort duties, convoying ships to and from the strategic islands for the next three months.
- Despite heavy seas and an enemy air attack, she debarked her troops as Allied forces sought to wrestle the strategic island from Axis control.
- Two days of severe fighting secured this strategic island in the Battle of Tulagi.
- In the Indian Ocean the largest, most powerfully equipped naval forces in history confront each other over a small strategic island.
- In 1420, Henry sent an expedition to secure the uninhabited but strategic island of Madeira.
- Midway was a strategic island that both sides wished to use as an air base.
- The battle for this strategic island, which lay at the gateway to the Japanese homeland, was well underway when LST-840 arrived on the 18th.
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