echelon formation

As both forces deployed from march column, they ended up in echelon formation.

Attacking in echelon formation denied the Soviet forces the chance to bring all their units to bear.

Three would go forward in echelon formation, clearing a broad path through the minefield.

The Saxons then brought up the bulk of their cavalry, in echelon formation, with the right leading.

An echelon formation is a (usually military) formation in which its units are arranged diagonally.

Echelon formations are also commonly used by civic, or riot police to move crowds either to the left or right.

With troops confident and reliable enough to operate in separate dispersed units, the echelon formation may be adopted.

The 49th halted their own advance, reformed line from echelon formation and wheeled back their right.

The 49th made a charge in awkward echelon formation, suffering heavy casualties from the American guns as they struggled across several rail fences.

In road racing, an echelon formation is a diagonal line of racers, which allows cooperative drafting.

The fighting was so fierce that the Soviets inched forward their second echelon formations, preparing to throw them into combat as well.

Varfolomeev sought to organise the Shock Armies into two echelon formations.

Tactically, echelon formations are used because of the excellent range of vision offered to each participant in the formation.

We spread to wiggle once more at our wives on the beach before letting down for the landing, which was accomplished out of the echelon formation.

Groups/contacts/formation with wingman displaced approximately 45 degrees behind leader's 3/9 (o'clock) line, see Echelon formation.

The progressive echelon formation sequence of this attack would prevent Meade from shifting troops from his center to bolster his left.

Arnold wrote later, "They were flying diagonally in an echelon formation with a larger gap in their echelon between the first four and the last five."

The stair-step echelon formation was therefore less effective against Bradley's fortified position on their right and front, allowing only Lowrey's brigade to engage them initially.

Visual contact is why V formations (and the asymmetric echelon formations) are also commonly adopted by flights of military aircraft engaged on a common mission.

Both Polk and Hardee can be faulted for not coordinating their attacks, but instead choosing to attack echelon formation, which led to much of the confusion.

Teams often fly V-formations (otherwise known as echelon formation)- they will not fly directly behind another aircraft because of danger from wake vortices or engine exhaust.

"Tally three ten, slightly high, " said Baby Johnson as Kevin spotted three Mig-21 "fishheads" flying in an echelon formation at ten o'clock.

The echelon formation was also used by Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae, and by Frederick II of Prussia.

Ahead, orbiting toward the horizon, an echelon formation of destroyers-their ID blocks picked them out as Cateran, Delphis, and Tritheladee-were commencing a bombardment run.

Arnold said the objects were grouped together, as Ted Bloecher writes, "in a diagonally stepped-down, echelon formation, stretched out over a distance that he later calculated to be five miles".