Word: armada
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...across the English Channel, an armada of shadows, only their lavender wing lights clearly visible in the thin moonlight. They took more than three hours to cross the Channel, then they dropped to 700 ft. to make their landing run. Suddenly they plunged into the turbulence of a thick bank of clouds. The pilots reflexively separated to avoid collision. As they emerged from the blinding clouds, sheets of flak began exploding all around them. Sergeant Louis Truax saw his plane's left wing hit, and then the paratroopers went sprawling. "One man dived out the door headfirst," he said...
...London was a kaleidoscope of uniforms: British, Commonwealth, French, Norwegian, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, Polish and, of course, American. So many U.S. officers worked around Grosvenor Square that G.I.s walking through the area kept their arms raised in semipermanent salute. In the southern counties, near the coast from which the armada would sail, military convoys clogged the crooked lanes of the countryside; entire fields disappeared under swarms of tanks and trucks and piles of ammunition and fuel...
...Marines apparently was carried out by terrorists striking from portions of Lebanon occupied by Soviet-armed Syria. Unable to bring about a Syrian withdrawal by diplomatic pressure, the U.S. at year's end was trying to forge a closer alliance with Israel. In December, a U.S. naval armada off Lebanon sent carrier-based planes to strike Syrian antiaircraft batteries that had fired on an American reconnaissance flight; two planes were shot down...
...Lebanon. The symbolic role of the Marines thus shifted again. Now by propping up the Gemayel government they were standing firm against the encroachment of Soviet influence. Still, the Marines remained officially noncombatants in a very combative situation. The only military change was the arrival of a naval armada offshore to shell the high grounds where gunners took aim at the symbolic targets. "These forces right now don't have a mission," said Kissinger after last week's bombing. "I don't think it's clear what we're trying to achieve in Beirut...
After Argentina's invasion of the windswept South Atlantic archipelago one year ago, the Falklanders talked excitedly about the 98-ship British armada that was being sent 8,000 miles to recapture the islands. And when, 74 days after the attack, the British won the surrender of the 10,000-man Argentine garrison, they greeted their saviors with cheers and tears. But now, with 4,300 British servicemen stationed on the islands, the 1,800 Falklanders have become painfully aware that life will never again be as it was before the early morning of April 2, when 150 Argentines...