Column
Troops
Both words in one sentence
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Strangelove, a column of US Army troops is dispatched to storm the Air Force base which has been commandeered by renegade general Ripper.
Source: Dressing as the Enemy -
Patton. During the invasion of Sicily an entire column of troops is being held up by a couple of stubborn donkeys on a bridge.
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After the Giant Wall of Watery Doom takes out Zimmerman and his entire armored column, he orders the few surviving German troops to retreat.
Source: Film / Force 10 from Navarone
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