Sentences with phrase «american army unit»

The memories of a dozen American soldiers, interviewed by the Associated Press and the persistence of two national councils of churches — Korean and American — have brought to light one of the few documented intentional killings of civilians by an American army unit.

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(One answer to that question could be a mix of twelve Iraqi army and peshmerga brigades reequipped and retrained as planned by the United States, along with Sunni Arab national guard elements and a more aggressive U.S. forward ground presence involving Joint Terminal Attack Controllers and unit advisors; limited American ground troops might be needed to augment such a local force, however.)

Citing US officials, the newspaper said the classified assessment also found that only about half of the Iraqi army's units are capable enough to be worth advising by American troops.

The army is small but reasonably well trained — they have enjoyed the support of the Americans over recent years, and a majority of their senior officers have had training in the USA or alongside US units in West Africa.

8:00 pm — TCM — Glory Matthew Broderick commands an all - black unit of the Union army during the American Civil War.

Call of Duty: World War 2 takes players back to the European theater in 1944 and 1945, and features an American platoon as well as a cast of side characters including women resistance fighters, a soldier in an African - American unit (the U.S. Army was still segregated in WWII), a British officer and even a child.

But even though his father was a well - regarded member of the U.S. military, Davis still encountered many obstacles as he made his way through West Point and then as leader of the U.S. Army Air Force African American flying unit, the Ninety - Ninth Squadron.

A quick search of Wikipedia reveals several uses of black flags, but the most interesting is: «The Black Flag was flown by certain irregular Confederate Army units in the American Civil War of 1861 - 1865 to symbolize that they would neither give, nor accept quarter; symbolizing the opposite of the white flag of surrender.»

Commanding the British and American, German or Soviet armies, you will lead over 100 different units into battle, including the German Heinkel He111 bomber, the Russian T - 34 tank, the British Hawker Typhoon fighter plane and even the notorious German Panzerkampfwagen VI «Tiger».

Players can also choose to pilot some of the most iconic American and Japanese fighter planes from the army or navy's aviation units, while completing quests that take them through various historical battles such as Pearl Harbor, Midway and Guadalcanal.

Philip «Snapdragon» Stern was an American photographer noted for his iconic portraits of Hollywood stars, as well as his war photography while serving as a U.S. Army Ranger in the «Darby's Rangers» unit in the North African and Italian campaigns during World War II.