pearls airport造句

• Pearls Airport during the invasion of Grenada, meeting only light resistance.
• The U . S . invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada in 1983 to topple a Cuba-backed, left-wing regime began with 600 Marines seizing the Pearls Airport and 700 Army Rangers seizing Point Salines Airport.
• The building of the airport  designed to replace the obsolete Pearls Airport on the north side of the island  was cited by U . S . President Ronald Reagan as evidence that the Grenadian government intended to allow it to be used as a way point for Soviet military aircraft en route to Cuba.
• "' Pearls Airport "'was Grenada's first airport opened in 1943 located at the North Eastern Corner of the island of Grenada, 19 miles north-east of its main town St . George's ( 12 degrees 09 minutes North, 61 degrees 37 minutes West ) with a runway set at a direction 082 degrees / 262 degrees and 5, 200 feet long.
• The main objectives on the first day of the invasion were the capture of the Point Salines International Airport by the 75th Ranger Regiment, to permit the 82nd Airborne Division to land reinforcements on the island; the capture of Pearls Airport by the 8th Marine Regiment; and the rescue of the U . S . students at the True Blue Campus of St . George's University.