"troop" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- B-52 bombers using unguided bombs were useful in bombing large ammunition depots, warehouses and factories but were less effective against Iraq's dug-in troops, General Horner said.
- He said that the introduction of American and allied ground forces wouldinduce the dug-in Iraqi troops to leave their fortified positions to contest American advancing forces.
- On the 17th, the Japanese attacked the first of the three Chinese defensive lines, but were repeatedly turned back by the dug-in troops and their heavy machine-gun fire.
- The 444-foot-high hill housed an Iraqi Army observation post, backed by dug-in infantry troops, and provided the Iraqis the only vantage point over the Marine positions.
- He noted without caring the expressions on the faces of the MPs at the entrance and the platoon of troops dug-in around the command post.
- "After all, this resolution talks about his withdrawing his forces from Kuwait, something that he cannot do in just a matter of hours with 500,000 dug-in troops in Kuwait."
- A hedgerow behind a large farmhouse on the right was occupied by well dug-in German troops.
- The 60 mm mortar is most effectively used in firing smoke shells, and is generally useless against armoured vehicles or dug-in troops.
- The 55th Army, in the meantime, had advanced despite heavy casualties inflicted by the dug-in Spanish troops.
- Units facing dug-in troops would call in artillery from far to the rear, and the artillery would only have to be moved after the troops had moved fairly long distances.
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