Draw
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| English to French translations [PRO] Military / Defense / Militaire - Deuxième guerre mondiale | |||||||
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| 5 | petites vallées ("draws") |
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| draw petites vallées ("draws") Explanation: "The Devil's Garden: Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha ... https://books.google.be/books?isbn=0811752771 Steven Zaloga - 2013 The only access off the beach for vehicular traffic was down a series of ravines, called “draws” or“exits”in Allied planning documents. There were five of these, ..." "Omaha Beach — Wikipédia https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Beach Omaha Beach est la plage du débarquement de Normandie qui a provoqué le plus lourd ... Ce plateau est accessible depuis la plage par cinq petites vallées ... à Colleville (code US : E.3 Draw) et à Cabourg Hameau (code US : F.1 Draw)." -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 mins (2016-02-17 21:19:19 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "Draw In this sense, a draw (look under the noun section, sense 6) is – “A gully shallower than a ravine” (Merriam-Webster) “A natural ditch or drain that draws the water off a piece of land. Also, a shallow valley containing a stream.” (OED)" http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/173384/what-are-a... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 14 mins (2016-02-17 21:21:14 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "Behind the sand embankment and sea wall lay a level shelf of sand, narrow at either end and extending up to 200 m (220 yd) inland in the center. Steep escarpments or bluffs then rose 30–50 m (33–55 yd), dominating the whole beach and cut into by small wooded valleys or draws at five points along the beach, codenamed west to east D-1, D-3, E-1, E-3 and F-1.[7]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Beach |
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