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Simultaneously, Chinese artillery stepped up the rate of its barrage fires as did the assaulting close-in enemy infantry.
We have smashed their trenches, broken their telephone wires, imprisoned them in barrages through which no food can come.
Furthermore, an American inventor had devised a new type of mine which was peculiarly adapted to the proposed mine barrage.
A rolling barrage two miles deep and of indescribable violence extinguished the poor efforts of the local batteries to reply.
This was the first occasion on which the Division had employed machine-guns to fire an overhead barrage during the attack.
Moreover, this barrage shooting was most effective in instilling confidence in the accuracy and good shooting of gun detachments.
In open attacks upon machine-gun nests phosphorus grenades were thrown in barrages to build smoke screens for the attacking forces.
The barrage arrangements co-ordinated by the Second Corps (Jacob), to which these units now belonged, worked most admirably.
This advance was successfully accomplished, the platoons managing to get through an unpleasantly heavy barrage with only one casualty.
The French artillery sprinkled the opposite bank of the river with a barrage which the "novice" American fighters called beautiful.
Located by the infantry commander, in concealed emplacements behind the first line, to deliver successive barrages from flanking positions.
"If you'd give me a couple of Thrift Stamps," I suggested, "I might be able to come out from behind this blooming barrage."
The opinion is that our trenches cannot protect troops during a barrage of the shortest duration, owing to lack of dugouts.
For the walls protected the dome against the deadly barrage of whizzing debris that continually shrieked down from space.
Every up-to-date infantry-saving device, the artillery barrage, the machine-gun barrage, and the Stokes-mortar smoke-screen was used to the full.
Our artillery once more responded magnificently to the call made on them, and their barrage caused severe disorganization in the enemy's ranks.
The Turks counter-attacked, but they melted away under the tremendous artillery barrage and never attempted another during this battle.
On the right, on the left, in front, behind, with a disquieting skill and precision, the Germans pile barrage upon barrage.
The glitter of star-points seemed in a moment to fill all the northern sky; the noise of the barrage trebled, trebled again.
Our bombardment had been overwhelming, and the heavy barrage which signalled the assault was, according to all these Welshmen, perfect.
The enemy's attack was preceded by a heavy artillery barrage, and by an incessant and wide-stretching blast of machine-gun fire.
The pine-wood looked as if it had been subjected to a barrage fire; and, in many places, the undergrowth was burning furiously.
Following the barrage, comes line upon line of infantry in skirmishing order, together with the line of Tanks when such are used.
Two companies of machine-guns were also detailed to fire a barrage, while a section of machine-guns and light trench-mortars accompanied each infantry battalion.
If machine gun barrage fire is to play its role successfully at the moment of assault, the guns must survive the bombardment.
The only men who lived were those who were huddled in sections of trench which were between the barrage-lines of our fire.
At the same time, they were bombarded and barraged by a vast artillery, subsequently they were attacked again and again by tanks.
After the battle, it must protect the attacking troops who have reached their objectives, from enemy counter-attacks, by barrage fire.
The barrage was not as deadly as usual on account of the pressure of time which had hampered the preparation and registration.
Under the light of this beacon the Canadians leaped over the parapets and began their methodical advance behind their barrage fire.
This barrage, after the arrival of our chasers, was so reorganized as to make the best use of their tactical and listening qualities.
Their own gunners could only give them barrages, and concentrate on machine-gun nests and such field battery positions as were located.
It was going to be a fine barrage, with guns going off in all directions, because it is hard to keep your head in a melee.
The first warning he had was when out of the deathly stillness our murderous barrage came roaring and screaming about his head.
Without any preliminary bombardment, the barrage opened out at the appointed hour, and fairly drove the enemy off the hill top.
The bombardment died down a little, as if the guns were taking breath, though far away to the right a barrage was throbbing.
Bombardment of shrapnel and high explosive shell, forming a barrage fire through which the men seen in the trench are about to plunge.
The French engineers on this night laid a charge under the iron bridge while the American guns laid down a leaden protective barrage.
Our machine gunners, advancing in rushes in front and to a flank of the 2nd Brigade, maintained a clever and deadly covering barrage.
All telephone and telegraph wires had been cut within the first half-hour, and it was impossible to direct any protective barrage.
French-Russian force under a terrific bombardment and barrage of machine to use for winter entertainments for the men stationed in that stronghold.
Some make a rush and crawl for the ruined communication trenches and face the barrage once more in the hope of rejoining their comrades.
At a quarter to five precisely the first wave of our attack went over the parapet behind an intense barrage from all our guns.
Such subtleties as machine-gun barrages, indirect fire, the linking of guns by telephone to battalion headquarters, had as yet scarce been conceived.
"When our barrage lifted off the railway cutting, the machine-guns had been silenced and all the gunners were found to be dead."
The barrage lifted suddenly, and the small raiding party rushed in and, taking the sentries by surprise, secured them as prisoners.
The bad weather prevents operations, but our artillery and machine-gun barrages effectually prevent the Germans from working on their new defenses.
A shrapnel barrage was directed against the post for a few minutes, while the raiding party was waiting in no man's land.
I watched the luminous hands of my watch get nearer and nearer to the fateful moment, for the barrage was to open at five-thirty.
Another tank force of undetermined size then rumbled down under cover of a mortar barrage, and it looked like the beginning of a counterattack.
In land defense chasers and fighters are used for patrol, and to maintain a barrage against the entrance of enemy machines into our lines.
A second later the palace doors were thrown wide and, notwithstanding a heavy barrage from overhead, the rebels soon over-ran the central hallway.
An intense barrage of shrapnel from field guns, strengthened by the indirect fire of hundreds of machine guns, was laid along the front.
The operations at the quarries, the erection of the jetties, and the barrage lock, may therefore be pushed on with all desirable activity.
Considerable losses were inflicted on the enemy both by our surprise artillery barrage and during the bayonet and bomb fight which followed.
The barrage can be fortified, and will constitute the most effective prevention against any foreign invasion by way of the Thames estuary.
Finally, a retreat was ordered through a pelting barrage, and even in their own front-line trenches the troops were exposed to a furious shell-fall.
It was this revelation which had added the smoke barrage of doubt to the situation, clouding his faculties and temporarily stifling his faith.
The fighting had been so severe that, by the time the leading troops reached the Green line, the barrage had been lost irretrievably.
The tanks, following the curtain of fire and lumbering ahead of the infantry, trampled into flatness whatever resistance the creeping barrage had spared.
A bayonet charge as of old completed the transaction, and the enemy broke and fled, with a barrage beating down upon his supports.
Their entanglements had been flattened by our barrage fire, but we had to get up to pick our way through, and they saw us.
They were just setting out to carry their burden overland on a track which led straight to the barrage which had turned us back.
After waiting eight hours under gas bombardment we got orders to advance, and so over we went with the barrage way ahead of us.
Anyway, the opportunity of getting such a fine scene of a barrage of fire was too strong, and for once my cautionary instincts were at fault.
In the morning of August 7, 1917, they directed a heavy machine-gun barrage and artillery fire on a crater recently captured by the Canadians.
That has become known in the army as "the million dollar barrage," because enlisted men figured it must have cost at least that much.
The hostile bombardment now increased in intensity and a terrific barrage came down on our lines, continuing with unabated violence all through the night.
The Huns followed on some distance back of their barrage and advanced in columns of fours to the sector occupied by the French Canadians.
The time for our barrage opening was postponed, but the wire from Brigade never reached us, and we advanced without any preliminary bombardment.
Afterward the American gunners, with their French comrades, extended their range, developing an effective barrage to prevent counterattacks on the newly won ground.
To ensure success, it was therefore considered necessary to provide a barrage sufficiently dense to sweep the whole area to be attacked with shrapnel bullets.
All the harbor men who were watching saw him come straight on through the gap in the barrage, and safely on to his mooring.
Thunder crashed as the scorpions hugging the ridge threw up a vicious defensive barrage, and was drowned out as the bombs landed all around.
They plunged wildly into each other, and before the men in the jeep had finished their barrage, the clearing was a milling, confused mob.
This channel patrolled by our destroyers was bordered on its south side by the mine-net barrage and on its north side by our minefields.
In spite of the American barrage, the Germans broke through at one point, and there was hand-to-hand fighting, grim and terrible while it lasted.
Our trenches were blown to pieces, we were cut off by the barrage, we had no food but our emergency rations, no ammunition could reach us.
On the 15th of September began a series of practice barrages, and the long-suffering infantry now had to endure the retaliation in addition to other bombardments.
Men and guns were blotted out by the dust of explosions; but the whistle for each new lift in the barrage went on sounding.
Both had grown accustomed to the thunder of barrages and the din of battles, but their ears were not listening to any ordinary bombardment.
All day they were thus moving backward and forward between the hut and the dugout, not knowing when another barrage would arrive.
The conformation of the country allowed us no opportunity to approach closer than two or three miles to the barrage of light we must expect.
The Germans immediately threw a heavy barrage along the front involved, and the advance was raked by machine-gun fire from numerous strong points.
They needed shells to destroy machine-gun nests, to silence enemy batteries, and to make barrages to support their farther advance as resistance began to develop.
Through this smoke our infantry advanced to the attack with the utmost steadiness in spite of the very heavy barrage of the enemy's guns.
For a second, shaken by the terrible barrage, they fell back, leaving several sprawled bodies on the floor; but they came right back again.
Then without warning the fire assumed the intensity of a barrage, and the range was shortened so that the projectiles fell all over "headquarters."
Fortunately for our little party, this barrage had no shrapnel mixed with it; had there been shrapnel, the story would be of another sort.
The infantry must be preceded by a barrage worked out with a mathematical accuracy, that will be practicable for the gunners and the infantry.
As far as the eye could see there appeared to be a continuous barrage of light through which the returning raider must pass before gaining her base.
Then, suddenly, like a burst of thunder from a clear sky, the American barrage started, and after a sufficient time had elapsed the whistles sounded.
And then he was at Val's side, towering over him, and their guns wove a barrage before whom Death walked with a steady implacable stride.
Before any American city is raided I hope some chemist will invent a barrage shell which will dissipate all its energy and substance in the bursting.
No sooner had they gone down that sinister street then the enemy flung a barrage right along the embankment where they had first assembled.
The casualties thus sustained caused gaps in the attacking waves, which enabled the enemy to man his machine-guns effectively after the barrage had passed.
Our projectors, mounted individually on small platforms automatically controlled to fly without human pilot, went up, and we strove to get them over the barrage.
For the present the barrage of fire was impassable, but what would happen when the conflagration burnt itself out remained a matter for anxious speculation.
That surface was designed to repel all but the most unusual of the radiation barrages that could bring on subtle changes in the brain within.
Before it could be delivered, both the hunter and the dog were usually exposed to an unerring barrage, which however seemed to cause them no especial inconvenience.