Synonyms for shock troops
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of shock troops
- noun special military troops
- Only about 150 of his 300 'shock troops' had reached the market-place.
- Extract from : « Plotting in Pirate Seas » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
- It was one of the most efficient bodies of shock troops in our entire line.
- Extract from : « The Airlords of Han » by Philip Francis Nowlan
- Two divisions of German shock troops had broken against a regiment of American fighting men.
- Extract from : « The Wrong Twin » by Harry Leon Wilson
- On June 16th the guns of the shock troops of the 7th and 11th Army opened a fire of such intensity as had never been heard before.
- Extract from : « The Russian Turmoil » by Anton Ivanovich Denikin
- Our best Army Corps, which were intended as shock troops, were opposed to the last three Armies mentioned above.
- Extract from : « The Russian Turmoil » by Anton Ivanovich Denikin
- We'll use my men as shock troops to beat back any particularly pressing attack.
- Extract from : « The Golden Amazons of Venus » by John Murray Reynolds
- Shock troops came to close grips with shock troops—and the Franco-American advance was not only sustained but extended.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) » by Various
- No Stosstruppen, (shock troops,) no expert grenadiers or flame pumpers this time.
- Extract from : « Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 » by Various
- It was in fact indecisive, because the leader's shock troops had been used up, and the situation was crumbling from within.
- Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia » by Various
- The infantry is divided into two classes: Holding troops—and attacking or shock troops.
- Extract from : « Military Instructors Manual » by James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker
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