These German soldiers in the troopships are our prisoners. " ❋ Cleveland Moffett (1894)
Thousands of planes had been carefully hidden and a secret fuel reserve established; they were ready to attack the troopships and supply ships when the Americans were landing. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)
The first army troopships arrived at Manila Bay on June 30, to be followed by two other flotillas totaling some 14,000 troops. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)
This proved to be a significant blow to the Japanese expectation of sinking many of the troopships and other vessels essential to the American effort. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)
You boarded troopships and headed for Japan before Japan surrendered? ❋ M_francis (2009)
Appealing to their patriotism, Grey told the three friends they were needed to pilot Union troopships up the Missouri River to Boonville. ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)
The German Navy declared publicly that U-boats would sink American troopships before the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If the fog persisted many hours longer, there was every chance the Americans would be taking off first and heading straight for them and the vulnerable troopships. ❋ David Downing (2009)
By January, the gauze masks, the bans on public gatherings, the daily reports of casualties had returned as the westward-bound troopships brought home the soldiers and the disease. ❋ Ann Hagedorn (2007)
Again and again it had sounded during wartime, especially when troopships have come bringing the men of the Empire who have journeyed over those waters into which Drake was the first to take an English keel. ❋ Lionheart (2007)
Argentina was the aggressor and make no bones about it they would have sunk one of our Aircraft Carriers or troopships if given the chance. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Special Forces soldiers used their special blend of tactics and insanity to greet the first of these troopships with teams racing to meet the ships as they landed, firing rockets and grenades into the troop bays the moment the landing doors opened. ❋ Unknown (2005)
After this the Athenians weighed from Corcyra, and proceeded to cross to Sicily with an armament now consisting of one hundred and thirty-four galleys in all (besides two Rhodian fifty-oars), of which one hundred were Athenian vessels — sixty men-of-war, and forty troopships — and the remainder from Chios and the other allies; five thousand and one hundred heavy infantry in all, that is to say, fifteen hundred Athenian citizens from the rolls at ❋ Thucydides (2005)
On March 15, the division boarded a convoy of troopships and sailed for Ulithi Atoll, a major Navy anchorage in the central Pacific some 250 miles northeast of Peleliu, where the Okinawa assault force was gathering. ❋ Bill Sloan (2005)
Ben: [Remember when] we all [piled] into [Tony's] Troopship and went to the park?
Johnny: Naw, man, I was already drunk and stoned...I hope I had fun!
Ben: Yeah, ex-cop cars are awesome!
Johnny: As long as the law enforcement is removed. ❋ Darthenstein (2014)
