What is "airbase"

Usage examples of "airbase".

They walked along the river past the town and came to a spot where ceiba trees with massy crowns of slick green leaves and whitish bark and roots like alligator tails grew close to the shore, and there they ate and talked and listened to the water gulping against the clay bank, to the birds, to the faint noises from the airbase that at this distance sounded part of nature.

No sooner had the trucks rolled back to Garbutt Field than they were driven to a remote part of the airbase, where men were waiting to tear open the crates and remove their contents.

He looked down at his kneeboard and began to write down the information on the weather and frequencies for his flight to Tan Son Nhut airbase outside of Saigon, Republic of South Vietnam.

Hill 327, a geological freak rising abruptly from the rice paddies west of the airbase.

The sheds were where Sam housed whatever poor creatures he was being subsidised to torture that year: pigs that he sold as pork to the American airbases, hens, sheep, elephants, unicorns.

In the Pacific Ocean, two young American seamen hijacked an American munitions ship to divert its load of bombs from airbases in Thailand.

The gunship set down at an airbase a mile west of town, a concrete strip penned in on three sides by barracks and offices, with the jungle rising behind them.

That President Truman was taken to a secret American airbase in the late Nineteen Forties to be introduced to alien entities.

It was also the day the VietCong attacked the Bien Hoa airbase, fifteen miles north of Saigon, the first major U.

It was pitch-dark when we landed at the large Coalition airbase and started to unload the kit.

The gunship set down at an airbase a mile west of town, a cement strip penned in on three sides by barracks and offices, with the jungle rising behind them.

They walked along the river past the town and came to a spot where ceiba trees with slick green leaves and whitish bark and roots like alligator tails grew close to the shore, and there they ate and talked and listened to the water gulping against the clay bank, to the birds, to the faint noises from the airbase that at this distance sounded part of nature.

Your people will be with you at the Negev airbase to attend to that matter.

Rudy Wells and the airbase medical staff had their hands full with a steady flow of dazed and disbelieving commandos suffering an assortment of injuries from torn muscles to broken bones.

Few defensive missiles were installed in the area, and these entirely within the sprawling Russian airbase complex near Qena.