However, their performance was poor or average when they were used as assault troops.

Behind them came a shadowy and ragged line of assault troops.

And all through that night the assault troops filed down the long trenches.

From two miles out the assault troops began to see the living and the dead in the water.

He said that the longer the allies waited, the better shape their assault troops would be in.

Normally Kuehl would not have gone in with assault troops.

The highly trained assault troops were left with nothing to do except think ahead to their tasks on this night.

Here, the destroyer provided call fire support for the assault troops.

They watched the assault troops moving forward in three columns of two hundred men each.

However, assault troops necessary for invasion did not begin deployment until October 1939.