Adjective : paratroop boots. From Dictionary.com.
The paratroops were a rough lot and evidently cared little what or how they ate. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
A squad of paratroops could do your work for you. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Alamut Ambush]
Several of the paratroops Junkers 52s were shot down. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
It would require a battalion of paratroops to take it. '. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
'Carries twelve to eighteen troops, fully equipped' - paratroops. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
They'd feel safer with our paratroops here ... man-toman, Ryan? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Sum of all Fears]
The paratroops could continue fighting on this basis for many days. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
The paratroops house to house search had been ruthless and destructive. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
'Pity we couldn't get the Admiral to change his mind about the paratroops. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
As torches appeared on the terrace and paratroops began swarming down the field. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
When the orders reached the paratroops at Lympne they could scarcely believe it. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
'Let's get to those canal bridges ahead of our friends, the paratroops, up there.'. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
These were carrying German paratroops to their objectives within Fortress Holland. From Wordnik.com. [Panzer Aces]
People lining the roads to catch a glimpse of a bus carrying paratroops from Iraq ?. From Wordnik.com. [Prepare to Shed a Tear] Reference
A German glider regiment has landed on Hawkinge and paratroops are moving on Lympne. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
The paratroops did it by another forced march across country, capturing the village of Wye. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
We are interested in maneuvers, in guerrilla exercises against landing troops and paratroops. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO IN INTERVIEW ATTACKS EISENHOWER] Reference
BRUSSELS - Belgian paratroops began arriving home from Rwanda where they evacuated Westerners. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It does remind me of a section in "Starship Troopers" arguably a book about future paratroops. From Wordnik.com. [Airborne.] Reference
His picture had been in all the newspapers following the rescue of Mussolini by his paratroops. From Wordnik.com. [Panzer Aces]
Liz, who was staring out the window, said noncommittally: Those paratroops are still coming down. From Wordnik.com. [Falling Into Oblivion without a Parachute] Reference
Participants staged live-fire exercises involving paratroops, armored vehicles, and fighter-bombers. From Wordnik.com. [Asia’s Dangerous Divide] Reference
Finally the seventh man had seen a section of paratroops at the farmer's house, with a British soldier. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
Last we with elite paratroops invading from neighboring Russia to keep the separatist republics in line. From Wordnik.com. [Fast Track To Freedom] Reference
But writer Patrick Bishop was embedded in the valley nearby with British paratroops at their Sangin bases. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries' role in civilian deaths] Reference
They thought that when a few tanks were landed and a few paratroops were dropped, demoralization would set in. From Wordnik.com. [5TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PLAYA GIRON VICTORY] Reference
In their covering letter to this amendment OKH pointed out that 9th Army could not expect support from paratroops. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
Self-propelled AA guns; vehicle-mounted machineguns; and small arms all fire on descending paratroops and equipment. From Wordnik.com. [FM 100-61 Chptr 11 Air Defense Support]
By S plus 90 there were all but 8,000 paratroops in that corner of Kent, trampling the hop fields and the fallen leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
Afterward, the regiment took Rotterdam together with the paratroops and subsequently advanced as far as Amsterdam-Den Haag. From Wordnik.com. [Panzer Aces]
He expected the fall of Hythe to follow swiftly upon the descent of his paratroops on the town and the securing of the bridges. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
British paratroops in Basra favor berets and a less intimidating kit than the Kevlar-helmeted, body-armored Americans to the north. From Wordnik.com. [The Decent Thing] Reference
The paratroops only glanced at Wyall's body as they burst into the Nelson's head to set up the MG 34s in the windows facing the road. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
Wyall recognised the men as paratroops by their close fitting helmets and smocks as they raced from tree to tree along the other bank. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
Nowhere else in American military training is a man allowed to strike another man; not in the Marine Corps, the SEALs, or the paratroops. From Wordnik.com. [On Yankee Station]
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