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Перевод: paratroops

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парашютные войска; парашютные части; парашютно-десантные части

Тезаурус:

1. Any conscript who may have wanted to go to the Gulf would have had to volunteer or to join the Foreign Legion, the paratroops or the naval infantry - units which are all made up entirely of volunteers.
2. Far from his paratroops, far from their mortars and machine-guns and rocket-launchers, far from their special camaraderie, he worried like a dog with freshly stolen meat over the incessant and aching problems of the camp's discipline and routine.
3. ON TUESDAY evening in the White House, while the camouflaged C-141s carried the paratroops of the 82nd Airborne through the Caribbean night towards Panama, President Bush held hands with his wife, smiled at his guests and sang Silent Night under the White House Christmas tree.
4. This possibility was confirmed some months later when I received a letter from the mother of one of the men in Leslie's "stick, (as a unit of paratroops dropped together from one aircraft was called).
5. Paratroops were the elite while those seconded to MVD work were the latrine cleaners of the armed forces.
6. As the Australians retreated eastwards, attempting to form a defence perimeter, 630 Japanese paratroops were dropped to snipe among them, slowing their retreat and allowing the battle-hardened elements of the Japanese 38 Division - some 5,000 men - to outflank the Australians' withdrawal.
7. Six of the Whitleys were to carry the men - thirty five paratroops of No. 2 Commando - and the other two to bomb Foggia to create a diversion.
8. During the night of 10 February the eight Whitleys at Luqa took off to drop their paratroops over Italy for the "Colossus" venture.
9. Many of the smaller technological targets were in the province of SOE, but one, the new components in radar equipment of a German site some hundred yards from the top of a 300-foot cliff near Bruneval (see map p. 28), was attacked by a small force of paratroops supported by a seaborne commando party covering the withdrawal.
10. Stories circulated about paratroops and invasion barges.
11. The pro-German government in Yugoslavia was subjected, in March 1941, to a coup d'etat and the young King Peter assumed the government, but in April the Germans launched an attack, not confined to Yugoslavia, but also embracing Greece, using paratroops on a massive scale and with "blitzkrieg" methods.
12. The paratroops, known as Task Force Red, dropped in two waves from C-141 cargo planes.
13. The second unit would be based around the XVIII Airborne Corps, and include a division of paratroops, an air cavalry division equipped with helicopters, light infantry divisions and a mechanised division equipped with tanks and mobile artillery, and all available for rapid deployment.