paratrooper
Example Sentences
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He entered the Army’s 101st Airborne Division and earned a Purple Heart as one of the paratroopers who, at age 20, dropped into German-occupied France on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
From Los Angeles Times
A British paratrooper killed serving in Ukraine told his family to "be proud" and not "remember him with sadness", in a letter to be opened in the event of his death.
From BBC
The paratroopers that landed, scattered, are in a race to assault the airfield before Taiwan wrecks it.
In the predawn hours of March 13, 1944, a Halifax bomber flew across the black waters of the Adriatic Sea carrying four Jewish paratroopers equipped with submachine guns, pistols and knives.
The former paratrooper, whose identity is protected by a court order, was found not guilty earlier this month of two murders and five charges of attempted murder on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.
From BBC
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