However, the airborne soldiers were not aware of what their officers had in store.

Not an airborne soldier, not any kind of special soldier.

They would be reinforced by a 36-man platoon of airborne soldiers (3rd platoon 11.

He was quite calm, a slight smile on his lips, a kind of self-sufficiency there that Munro had noticed in many airborne soldiers.

The result was the General Aircraft Hotspur, an aircraft capable of transporting eight airborne soldiers that was used for both assault and training purposes.

Corporal Louis Merlano of the 101/ may well have been the first airborne soldier to encounter troops of the 4th Division.

In military terminology, a chalk is a specific aircraft load, especially a group of airborne soldiers that deploy from a single aircraft.

Snipers had opened fire, and three dead airborne soldiers lay across the road.

These airborne soldiers quickly fanned out and engaged the pitifully small groups of defending Fourth Reich troops.

Howard's job was to make the recruits into genuine airborne soldiers.