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As the troops landed, naval gunfire ships let loose with rolling barrages which cleared the way.
By barrages, at about one hundred meters ahead of the advance, it protects the assaulting waves of infantry.
Though wounded by enemy mortars, he continued his life-saving efforts until another barrage took his life.
The barrage had just passed, and its line of fire, volcanic in its fury, went travelling ahead.
He knew what a barrage would have done to a force trying to cross such open ground in daylight.
I saw two waves of infantry advancing against the enemy's trenches, preceded by our barrage of field-guns.
One New England boy passed through the enemy barrage seven times to carry ammunition to his comrades.
There are, however, grave objections to the barrage scheme, which for the present has been set aside.
The vessel which steams into an efficient heavy gun barrage from modern guns is unlikely to survive.
Occasionally a soldier becomes too enthusiastic and goes too fast for the barrage, and then disaster follows.
Before attacks were made on the enemy, a barrage, or curtain-like rain of shells, was turned on his lines.
As the platoon climbed up the hill they could hear the friendly explosion of their own barrage.
These are the line of departure and the information about the artillery preparation and the rolling barrage.
Now, an artillery barrage, accompanied or followed by a gas-demonstration, can mean but one thing: a general attack.
We subject ourselves to a barrage of sound and light that has a communication content of almost zero.
Their previous training had been to follow a barrage which moved forward by bounds of a hundred yards.
They were thus able to assault the front line within a few seconds of the barrage having lifted.
The preliminary attack was to be carried out under a creeping barrage, with a large proportion of smoke-shell.
The advance was covered by a barrage moving at the rate of a hundred yards in three minutes.
We were walking straight through our own barrage, and still there was no sign of our own infantry.
If that enemy barrage lowered then, our casualties would be enormous and our chances for success almost gone.
He realized in a flash that the monster was moving behind its special barrage, airplane directed from above.
The great transport trembled under the impact of the barrage, and suddenly, the screen went blank.
Finally, it cannot be too much impressed on assaulting troops the necessity for clinging to our own barrage.
They brought their guns above the shell-craters of their destroyed trenches under our barrage and served them.
All these fires are called for by telephone, but do not follow automatically like the barrage fire.
I dare not lift my head for fear of exposing myself again to that awful approach of the barrage.
Your sheet now is clean in this respect, and also in others, if the barrage of silence is maintained.
I would have them beat it back a hundred yards and take a chance on escaping from the barrage.
The machines used for patrol and barrage are of the high speed and fast climbing chaser type.
If possible visitors will be given the opportunity of witnessing a practice barrage on the Enemy's front line.
The Germans had not even that source of comfort, for whatever it might be worth under barrage fire.
The barrage which immediately preceded the actual battle began at one o'clock on the morning of the twelfth.
They suffered loss from our barrage, and not more than half a dozen ever actually entered our trench.
There must be artillery preparation, then a sweep over the crest behind the shield of a strong barrage.
When the intense fire, or barrage, commenced, there were gaps left in it for the advance of Tanks.
When this happens the company is not allowed to make the barrage any stronger when it is rebuilt.
While clearing the largest mine-group in June the force found impressive evidence of the success of the barrage.
By this spirited action the infantry secured a barrage which could not otherwise have been accurately laid down.
It became clearer with every day that an artillery barrage was still a necessity for an infantry advance.
Five minutes later the barrage ceased, the smoke drifted away and not a man was to be seen.
Here it was held up by our own barrage which was falling in some cases behind our front line.
I should not be surprised if the promised attack and advance under barrage fire is to begin before morning.
Some of them set up their long-guns and fired at random over the barrage line, then gave it up.
What he saw was a pair of balloons belonging to a balloon barrage, a trap set for enemy planes.
This action of halting the barrage and giving the artillery a new objective is exceptional and delicate to execute.
The nearer that barrage came to the Fritz trenches the faster they went up all along the line.
The English boys fought and force-marched and fought again their terrible way through the barrage to our aid.
Towards dark on the 21st the enemy put down another heavy barrage on the line of Somme Farm.
Practice advances were also carried out with these formations behind a creeping barrage represented by flags and drums.
The chief defense against the Goths was a barrage of guns mounted mostly on the roofs of buildings.
After an hour or so, it steadied down into a rolling barrage and the first wave of attackers went over.
"Our artillery put a barrage on them and in a couple of minutes all but three of them were dead."
This avoided the barrage, but I had to face the enemy machine gun fire, which was very heavy.
On the following morning they returned to the attack, supported by tanks and a barrage of machine guns.
The general plan was that the tanks were to advance to the first objective under an artillery barrage.
Only two out of its six assaulting Battalions had managed to catch up with and follow the barrage.
I had only Suzette left, so she took the message and vanished into the enemy barrage behind me.
To completely surround the enemy, an artillery barrage is sometimes established to cut him off from the rear.
There are also signs of cut basins, which the barrages above and below once divided into a series of tanks.
At noon orders were received to be ready, at any time, to lay down a destructive barrage on a certain zone.
Encouraged by this success, the English propose next year to raise the barrage of the Nile another twenty feet.
Below us now still burst the barrage of shells, whilst one or two stray ones burst near the machine.
The usual barrage, and over we went, and were met by the Germans standing on top of their trenches.
Enemy place a heavy barrage on 10th Brigade sectors, and continue until checked by the retaliation of our artillery.
During the barrage, the reason for which we learned a few hours later, our village suffered more than usual.
This counter-battery action will hinder the hostile artillery from executing defensive fire, barrage, preventive fire, counter-preparation fire.
The first and most important thing to avoid at this time is the defensive barrage of the watchful enemy.
Just before their barrage opened up, we quickly jumped out of Nun's Alley trench and got into shell holes.
This operation, prepared in the greatest secrecy, was carried out without the usual assistance of the artillery or barrages.
Ron switched on the short-wave radio, which, over a limited distance, could function, in spite of the static barrage.
Curiously enough, not a single Tank was damaged by the trench mortar barrage, which was extremely heavy.
During this second phase, the artillery was to be moved up, and we were to advance without a barrage.
The journey is resumed, the party carrying the dead with them, and presently another hostile barrage is encountered.
The order came just in time; the barrage here flashed on again, trapping a few of our men behind it.
The orders for the batteries to advance still held good, and immediately the barrage ceased they pulled out.
The confusion of the traitors was entirely that of fear, for our barrage had not yet reached them.
To accomplish this the cars had to run through our own artillery barrage; this they did without casualty.
As our barrage continued the party moved back to our original objective and blocks were made at this trench junction.
Here we halted for one minute to allow our barrage to play upon the Fringe Trench without exposing ourselves unnecessarily.
The five others all stuck with horses dead and men wounded, and still that barrage dropped like hail.
When it gets dark, the Italians direct their barrage fire farther back, and give you a chance to climb out.
Of all the music I have ever heard in my life, none comes near the glorious organ sound of a barrage.
This barrage was fired in support of the infantry of the 2nd Division, which had relieved our own infantry.
At night the Germans suddenly opened a smart barrage with big guns and men of the 112th became scattered.
The enemy was there in strength, and his guns were answering ours with a heavy barrage of high explosives.
The barrage had just passed and its line of fire, volcanic in its look and fury, went travelling ahead.
The 6th Gordon Highlanders, attacking the trenches they had raided, reached all their objectives behind the barrage.
Practically every one had penetrated the first or outer entanglements when the enemy laid his barrage right on us.
Also, the assaulting companies must arrive in the first hostile line as quickly as possible behind their own barrage.
If no unforeseen and serious resistance is encountered, the assaulting platoons will be able to keep up with their protective barrage.
Our creeping barrage had, so to speak, run away, and there was now no artillery support of any kind.
He began to send up rockets calling for barrage fire, and soon his guns were responding with growing emphasis.
A belt of country had to be passed through on which a hostile heavy artillery barrage had been put down.
This was unfortunate, for we were not able to reach our battle position before dawn, when the enemy's barrage began.
If some damn fool hasn't gummed things up the creeping barrage should be starting out yonder and everything is set.
No formidable barrage of sound like the last time just bare minutes before when the noise had tormented him so.
Far below us, and several miles to the right and left, the two barrage lines made their appearance.
After the barrage lifted we saw some of the boys that we had traveled over three thousand miles to see.
At practically the same time the creeping barrage was conceived, another idea which has also been extremely useful was developed.