Synonyms for shock troops


Grammar : Noun


Définition of shock troops

  • noun special military troops
Example sentences :
  • 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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