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Paratroops meaning
infantry soldiers deployed by parachute
Example sentences (5)
The 1,856 paratroops dropping from the air would take the Ponte dei Primosole Bridge, the only bridge over the River Simeto, five miles to the north.
Despite the loss of two soldiers, the western bridge was swiftly secured by the paratroops, and F4U Corsairs of the Aéronavale 14.F and 15.F flew a series of close-air-support missions, destroying several SU-100s.
In the coming months over 500 Indonesian paratroops and special forces were covertly inserted into Netherlands New Guinea, only to be decisively defeated by Dutch forces with the assistance of the indigenous population.
The result was that around half the paratroops failed to make it to their rallying points.
This was one of the few occasions where an airfield captured by paratroops has been recaptured.