airborne troops

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airborne troops

Those ground units whose primary mission is to make assault landings from the air. See also troops.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Memorabilia collected from former Airborne troops, including guns, jeeps and gliders set for display once the attraction is unveiled, were on show at the weekend.

Flying high with airborne forces; Preview of celebration at Dumfries museum

More than 1,000 Egyptian paratroops along with Russian and Belorussian airborne troops took part in the counter-terrorism exercise.

Egyptian- Russian- Belorussian military drill concludes

Airborne troops landed at Arnhem, in the Netherlands, to secure bridges, but faced unexpected and stiff resistance.

Two-finger salute that said it all; The famous Arnhem photo that baffled British POW's German captors

In September 1944 soldiers from the Staffordshire Regiment formed a large part of the airborne troops landing from gliders intending to capture bridges in Holland.

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The Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1144856/russia-latest-world-war-3-news-iran-us-tension-moscow-tehran-putin-moscow-trump) on the order of President Vladmir Putin , the whole military command, control bodies of the Central Military District, part of the troops of the Southern and Eastern Military Districts, separate units of the Airborne Troops, long-range and military transport aviation have been placed on alert.

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But in wartime it also assembled and flew Spitfires, as well as gliders which carried airborne troops into the heart of enemy-occupied territory.

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The noise pierced the still, moonless night at the spot where airborne troops landed in gliders 75 years ago in the first major assault of D-Day.

Vigil at 12.16am to mark fight for Pegasus Bridge

More than 24,000 American, British and Canadian airborne troops paved the way for the allied infantry and armoured divisions to land on the French coast at 6.30am.

The moment our brave boys came ashore... On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Nostalgia recalls how news of the Normandy landings reached Manchester

Shortly after midnight on June 6, 24,000 British, American and Canadian airborne troops parachuted in or landed by glider, tasked to secure bridges.

Gordon Highlanders at the centre of the action; OVERLORD

The war games will include around 300,000 Russian soldiers and officers, including 6,000 airborne troops, over 1,000 warplanes, helicopters and drones, about 36,000 armor, and 80 combat and support ships.

300k Troops, Thousands of War Machines: Russia Starts Biggest Military Drill in Decades

His coffin, draped in the separatist region's flag and the flag of the Russian Airborne Troops, a division of Russia's armed forces, was carried out of the theatre to silent applause, footage showed.