sapper

• The RAB consisted of a headquarters, separate communications company, wheeled transportation battalion, forward aviation and field military supply depots, engineer-sapper service, and anti-aircraft defense service. —  Attack of the Airacobras - Soviet Aces, American P-39s and the Air War Against Germany
• It consisted of a headquarters, airfield service company, wheeled transportation company, communications company, mine-sapper, maskirovka, chemical, and medical services, services for the supply of provisions, ammunition, fuel, aviation and common parts, mobile aviation repair shops (PARM-1), and oxygen-generating station. —  Attack of the Airacobras - Soviet Aces, American P-39s and the Air War Against Germany
• The mine-sapper service cleared mines from the areas adjacent to the runways. —  Attack of the Airacobras - Soviet Aces, American P-39s and the Air War Against Germany
• A Jap sapper, a guy who'd been hiding in the jungle for six months, came in with a sword a mile long, slashing and stabbing. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 04 - April 1997
• He pictured the sailors lying on folding canvas bunks or air mattresses and wondered how they could sleep amid the heat, humidity, mosquitoes, and periodic thumps of anti-sapper concussion grenades dropped randomly by the sentries. —  Brown Waters, Black Berets

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