"vital" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This vital convoy carried 40,000 troops intended to oppose Gen. MacArthur in New Guinea, and the embarked units suffered losses of nearly 50 percent.
- The convoy was postponed because a large part of the Royal Navy was engaged in Operation Pedestal, protecting a vital convoy to Malta in August.
- He was in command of the French fleet during the Glorious First of June, where, at great costs for his forces, he successfully drew the British away from a vital convoy.
- Ulysses puts to sea again to escort FR-77, a vital convoy heading for Murmansk.
- This helped allies to hunt U-boats, protect vital convoys and support mid-Atlantic Air Transport Command ferry efforts.
- These ships guarded the movement of vital convoys through the most dangerous waters of their passage across the Atlantic.
- A vital convoy is heading to Malta, escorted by five Royal Navy light cruisers, including HMS Artemis.
- If the Dutch made a sortie into the North Sea they would be able to threaten Britain's vital Baltic convoys, including precious naval stores which were needed for continuing the war.
- They captured Newtown by surprise, capturing a vital convoy of gunpowder which the besieged Royalists at Liverpool desperately needed, and then advanced to Montgomery.
- Both sides claimed victory, since the British sank or captured a quarter of the French Atlantic Fleet with minimal losses of their own, but the vital convoy got through unharmed.
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