sortie's Usage Examples:

The city was firebombed with 1,000 tons of high explosives and incendiaries in 1,600 sorties on 23 August.

IAF aircraft losses mounted to three aircraft for every 200 sorties, an unsustainable.

Translated, der Feindflug (literally the foe-flight) corresponds in military use to the French/English word sortie.

Eleven sorties were carried out by French aircraft over Libya.

A sortie from the fort by Harrison's command was also turned back.

October, he flew four sorties; on the last one, he scored a victory, but crashlanded afterwards at his own airfield.

By the end of 1967 and the absorption of Steel Tiger operations into Commando Hunt, 103,148 tactical air sorties had.

On the first of those dates, Converse sortied with her squadron and cruisers to provide cover for amphibious landings on Bougainville, and on the night of 31 October "ndash; 1 November 1943, bombarded Buka and Bonis airfields and targets in the Shortlands.

Following 10 days in the Efate area, the Stevens sortied with Task Force 37 to bombard the Kavieng area of northwestern New Ireland.

end of the day the US aircraft from the three squadrons had flown 163 sorties.

Map of 486(NZ) Squadron sorties 1945486Military units and formations established in 1942 Hugo Winckler (4 July 1863 "ndash; 19 April 1913) was a German archaeologist and historian who uncovered the capital of the Hittite Empire (Hattusa) at Boğazkale, Turkey.

This settlement was not spared from sporadic sorties launched by punitive bands from the south, that in 1854 one group of that band ravage Ginangra and took as hostage one family from the village.

Their commander from early 1811, Vice-Admiral Maxime Julien Émeriau de Beauverger made occasional sorties from the port in order to exercise his fleet, but preferred to avoid any chance of action with the patrolling British fleet under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew.

Synonyms:

flying, flight,

Antonyms:

source, sink, activation,