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 Translation for 'combat area' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a combat area | combat areas
SYNO combat area | combat zone
hern.
átakasvæði {hv}
combat area
Partial Matches
bardagi {k}combat
návígi {hv} [líka óeiginl.]close combat
hern.
vígur {adj} [fornt]
combat-ready
einvígi {hv}single combat
hern.
átakasvæði {hv}
combat zone
leggja / ráðast til atlögu við e-ðto combat sth.
flughern.
loftbardagi {k}
aerial combat
hern.
orrahríð {kv}
heavy combat
hern.
vígfimi {kv}
ability in combat
berjast gegn e-m/e-uto combat against sb./sth.
flatarmál {hv}area
svæði {hv}area
flötur {k}area
þurrkasvæði {hv}dry area
vistfr.
þynningarsvæði {hv}
dilution area
þéttbýlisstaður {k}urban area
áhorfendasvæði {hv}spectator area
sagastjórns.
amt {hv} [gamalt]
administrative area
jarð.
jarðhitasvæði {hv}
geothermal area
þéttbýli {hv}urban area
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Usage Examples English
  • Those Chindits already operating in Burma were formally subordinated to General Joseph Stilwell, who ordered the Chindits to abandon their dispersed operations around Indaw, and concentrate on interdicting the supply lines to the Japanese forces opposing his Northern Combat Area Command.
  • The American General Joseph Stilwell commanded the operational Northern Combat Area Command and used his other positions to communicate directly with Joint Chiefs of Staff about operational matters.
  • This eliminated the Roman numerical advantage by shrinking the combat area.
  • On 28 May, she departed the intensely disputed Okinawan combat area.
  • Merrill's Marauders came under General Joseph Stilwell's Northern Combat Area Command.

  • This created the requirement for unit rotation to prevent combat fatigue, with troops preferably not remaining in a combat area of operations for more than a month.
  • The major effort was intended to be by American-trained Chinese troops of Northern Combat Area Command (NCAC) under General Joseph Stilwell, to cover the construction of the Ledo Road.
  • The Northern Combat Area Command (NCAC) was a subcommand of the Allied South East Asia Command (SEAC) during World War II.
  • It is also associated with a large air-to-air combat area off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia as well as a 5,200 acre (21 km²) air-to-ground combat and bombing range in McIntosh County, Georgia.
  • During the early part of 1944, the Army also had loose operational control over the American and Chinese Northern Combat Area Command, and the Chindits operating behind enemy lines under Major General Orde Wingate.

  • Normally, the fighters would be sent to engage patrolling British Harrier jets and to provide air cover to a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk strike force; however, they would have no more than five minutes at most over the combat area before having to embark upon the return flight back to their airfields.
  • During NATO's intervention in the 1999 Kosovo War, French Atlantics performed overflying surveillance flights of the combat area; flights within Serbian airspace were conducted by unarmed aircraft.
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