As related in a former chapter at some length, only two of the machines succeeded in escaping from the withering fire of the strong antiaircraft defense guns.
According to information which had reached the British admiralty, the German coast north of the Kiel Canal is protected at intervals by the most powerful antiaircraft artillery, including 4.
North of Soissons, near the village of Vezaponin, a French machine was shot down into the German lines; another French aero was struck by German antiaircraft guns; with a marvelous dive and series of loops it crashed to earth.
Only two of the machines returned from the invasion, torn and riddled with bullets and shrapnel, reporting the most terrific shell fire from batteries of antiaircraft guns.
Following the raid, a member of the Japanese garrison on Saipan, wrote in his diary: “For two hours, enemy planes ran amuck and finally left leisurely amidst the unparalleledly inaccurate antiaircraft fire.
Light antiaircraft guns were positioned on both Kokorana and Rendova.
Here it was to move immediately into position to provide antiaircraft defense.
The airfield was defended by various aviation personnel, antiaircraft units, and the 229th Infantry Regiment.
The primary targets were antiaircraft and field artillery positions, and ammunition dumps.
The 9th’s antiaircraft guns were now fully placed to protect the airfield.
As the enemy planes came in, several light antiaircraft guns opened fire and a few seconds later Captain Tracy’s E Battery on Kokorana Island began firing.
These were adapted by the 9th from 37mm gun mounts, giving the light antiaircraftgroup greatly increased mobility by replacing the stationary naval single-mounts.
Chadwick, of Battery B, was hauling ammunition for a Navy 40mm antiaircraft gun when the “LST was showered in water.
At Vila, a Japanese commander reported, “it had become very difficult to fire the antiaircraft guns as the enemy places their artillery upon our position immediately after we commence firing upon the aircraft.
A total of 26 enemy planes were downed by battalionantiaircraft fire over Rendova.
The battalion exchanged 90mm guns with the Army 70th Coast Artillery Battalion, giving the antiaircraft group new guns.
Antiaircraft fire shot down one plane and damaged four; Japanese casualties included eight men killed.
Returning aircrewmen claimed damage to a warehouse and an antiaircraft gun in the “western sector.
Antiaircraft fire hardly seemed to hinder them as they “worked things over a bit” and gave embattled defenders their first taste of dive-bombing.
While she limped away to the south, Elrod, antiaircraft fire having perforated his plane’s oil line, headed home.
Marine antiaircraft or fighter aircraft gunfire at Wake destroyed at least four Nells during December 1941.
Of 27 planes engaged, 12 had been hit byantiaircraft fire.
No bombs fell near the battery, but the guns’ own concussions caved in the sandbag emplacements, Marine antiaircraft fire damaged eight Nells and killed a petty officer in one of them.
He attributed Wake’s escape from more serious damage to the effectiveness of the Marines’ antiaircraft fire--fire delivered despite the lack of fire control equipment.
Another plane is turning to the right and left and ducking to avoid the thistle blows of smoke which burst from the shrapnel shells fired by the antiaircraft guns.
Everyone is a policeman under an intricate system guarding every detail of army secrets from any spy and from those gallant aviators who risk antiaircraft gunfire in the hope of bringing home some information to their side.
The Marines found the enemy direct fire weapons to be equally deadly, especially the dual-purpose antiaircraft guns and the 47mm tank guns, buried and camouflaged up to their turrets.
Japanese fighters based on Iwo swarmed up to harass the unescorted Superforts going in and especially coming home, picking off those bombers crippled by antiaircraft (AA) fire.
Large-caliber coast defense guns and dual-purpose antiaircraft guns firing horizontally added a deadly scissors of direct fire from the high ground on both flanks.
When Japanese antiaircraft gunners managed to down one of the “Grasshoppers,” Marines from all points of the island mourned.
The light of a blasted and blazing gasoline truck furnished a plain target, not to mention the antiaircraft gun flames and the searchlights.
Now he could make out the British flags and the tiny figures of the antiaircraft gun crews in their tin nests on the superstructures.
An antiaircraft burst rocked the big bomber like a cradle.
During that time a transport vessel arrived with more antiaircraft and two companies of soldiers.
Suddenly the flotilla’s antiaircraft opened fire with a concerted roar.
Other crews received the airfields across the bay at Hatu and Lata and the antiaircraft batteries mounted in the hills along shore.
Cracker, be ready to strafe any antiaircraft before they can pot us.
A few moments after the bombs started falling, the new antiaircraft batteries went into action.
He had done it, flying through air that was bumpy with antiaircraft bursts, ignoring the darting Zero fighters that stabbed at his ship from above.
When Rosy fell behind, with one engine damaged by antiaircraft fire, the Japs had jumped on her like wolves.
The Japs evidently believed that neither aircraft detectors nor antiaircraft equipment were as yet set up.
Some of the bursting antiaircraft fragments struck her fuselage and rudder.
Some of her antiaircraft were still firing, but Rosy’s unorthodox actions fooled them completely.
Only way to get ’em is to toss a grenade into every hole you can find—” Just in front of them an antiaircraft battery went into action.
There were electrical generators, searchlights, floodlights, antiaircraft guns, and the first units of a big repair shop.
Then we were closer and I saw that it was an antiaircraft gun, which they were trying to direct at us.
On the roof of an apartment house I glimpsed a crew trying to unlimber an antiaircraft gun, but Kazu saw it also, and smashed the building to rubble with a passing kick.
As they swung lower, to sow bombs about the place, antiaircraft guns opened on them and they departed.
As we looked the antiaircraft guns, concealed all about us, began firing at it.
Already on the island were a large number of very heavy (141mm) mortars, naval antiaircraft guns, and rudimentary rocket launchers for sending up large, unguided naval shells.
Surface-to-air missiles and their launching equipment, larger antiaircraft guns, radars, and most of the complex communication equipment are furnished by the Soviet Union.
Air defenses include surface-to-air missiles, antiaircraft artillery, and early warning and aircraft control sites.
At that height, a space ship would be in no danger from our planes and antiaircraft guns and rockets.
It could be photographed, its speed and maneuverability checked; it might crash, or antiaircraft fire might bring it down, The secret might be lost in one such test flight.
Wasn't that some kind of antiaircraft missile fired from the ground?
I knew of a few instances in World War II when bomber crews and antiaircraftgunners had loosed a few bursts at Venus.
Two other German machines were brought down in an aerial engagement in the vicinity of Marchelpot, and another by the fire of French antiaircraft guns in the direction of Amy.
Eleven of these machines were brought down by our pilots during aerial combats, and three of them by the fire of our machine or antiaircraft guns.
Austrian aeroplanes and antiaircraftbatteries obtained hits on the Italian torpedo boats.
One of the Zeppelins was brought down later by French antiaircraft guns near Compiègne, northeast of Paris, its entire crew being killed.
After a short bombardment, which caused but little damage, they were both forced to withdraw by the fire of antiaircraft guns.
They further claimed that twenty-two French aviators had been shot down by aerial attacks and antiaircraft fire and that eleven aeroplanes were lying behind the German lines.
On the same day in the afternoon an Italian air squadron of eighteen Capronis under the protection of three Nieuport antiaircraft aeroplanes attacked Trieste.
British airmen accounted for 263 German aeroplanes andantiaircraft gunners for six.
One Austrian seaplane was brought down by Italian antiaircraft batteries.
They succeeded in dropping a large number of bombs which caused two casualties and considerable material damage and injured twenty-nine persons before antiaircraft guns and British planes drove them off.
Some of the artillery regiments had to absorb a flood of radar technicians and antiaircraft artillery gunners from the old Defense Battalions at the last moment.
So intense had the aerial battles become that the western beaches, so beguilingly harmless on L-Day, became positively deadly each night with the steady rain of shell fragments from thousands of antiaircraft guns in the fleet.
Illustration: Japanese night raiders are met on 16 April with a spectacular network of antiaircraft fire by Marine defenders based at Yontan airfield.
By 1945, however, the rikusentai had all but disappeared, and Ota commanded a ragtag outfit of several thousand coast defense and antiaircraft gunners, aviation mechanics, and construction specialists.
One of them said that there was an antiaircraft gun right down in front of them.
All the while circling aeroplanes, under the constant fire of the Turkish antiaircraft guns, watched and corrected the firing, while a captive balloon, sent up from the Agamemnon, did additional and valuable service in this respect.
There were not too many Japanese planes in the sky, and so the antiaircraft artillerymen could concentrate on firing across the water into the southern flank of the enemy’s Orote positions.
In the initial stages of the Guam operation, theseantiaircraft guns fired in support of the 3d Marines.
She just didn't want anyone she liked as well as Danny to be out there fighting subs, dodging antiaircraft fire and watching the black sea that waited to swallow him up.
By the time Danny could swing back, three of the enemy had manned an antiaircraft gun, but, nothing daunted, Danny again swung low and this time he did not miss.
The main force of the Defense Headquarters was the Shipping Unit, but the Antitank and Antiaircraft Gun Units, the Automatic Gun Company, and other units were added.
As the rockets were being fired, the crews of the LGM's engaged the enemy defenders on the pier in a small arms fight, the antiaircraft machine guns on the LCM's exchanging fire with the Japanese rifles and machine guns.
Upon a number of occasions, however, the enemy airplanes slipped through the antiaircraft fire and the air protection and hit the shipping.
At 0615 enemy planes flew over the command post area, and ten minutes later one of these was shot down by antiaircraft fire.
The air transports allotted to Tacloban were destroyed by antiaircraft fire, while those destined for Dulag crash-landed, killing all their occupants.
The aircraft received heavy and accurate ground antiaircraft fire, and two of the planes were shot down by the Japanese.
However, two American planes were shot down by enemy antiaircraft fire, four came in on single engines, and all showed many bullet holes.
Even the artillery and antiaircraft units retreated without facing the enemy.
An antiaircraft machine gun crew, which outfit is forgotten now, was in position on the alert for enemy aircraft.
At the same time light bombers were to hit antiaircraft positions between San Pablo and Dulag and points west.
Then they talked for a while, as the sound of bombing and antiaircraft fire northwest of Maletta died out.
In the skies to the northwest he saw the bursts of antiaircraft fire from the German batteries, trying to find the American bombers that were coming over the railroad tracks.
The planes had already swung westward as they climbed away from the first ineffective bursts of antiaircraft shells from German batteries to the south.
The Italians attacked in turn, and there was a heavy fire of antiaircraft guns, but the Austrian squadron retired in safety.
This squadron was under continuous fire by antiaircraft batteries, but returned in safety.
Furthermore, flying was attended with much greater danger, with a corresponding increase in fatalities, on account of the improvements in the antiaircraft guns and ranging apparatus and the skill of the gunners.
Attempts were made from the warships in the harbor to reach the aircraft with their antiaircraft guns, but as the aeroplanes were over ten thousand feet high they were not hit.
The French antiaircraft guns brought down a number of Fokkers and a Zeppelin in flames at Revigny, but the raiders succeeded in cutting the Ste.
Antiaircraft opened fire on the French raiders and they were forced to retire.
Often their aeroplanes operated in connection with the artillery, and in many cases their object was to draw the Allies' machines within range of the German antiaircraft artillery, which was efficiently served.
No sooner had the first of the missiles fallen than antiaircraft guns began to open a bombardment from many directions.
They were attacked by antiaircraft guns, and by aeroplanes, but the latter were unable to locate the airships, whose bombs, both incendiary and explosive, fell on buildings and in the streets.
Despite the fire of antiaircraft guns the French machines hovered above the city and dropped bombs at will, again proving that there was no sufficient protection against air attacks except by flotillas of equal force.
They all told of how the Japs had been taken by surprise, how plane after plane had been wrecked on the field, how torpedo planes and scout-dive bombers came in with little more than scattered antiaircraft fire to get in their way.
She’ll have one three-inch deck gun and a couple of antiaircraft machine guns.
Japanese hit-and-run raiders added a few of their own, despiteantiaircraft fire from the 12th Defense Battalion.
Left behind was the 12th Defense Battalion, which continued to provide antiaircraft defense for the Cape Gloucester airfields until relieved by an Army unit late in May.
Twin-engine North American Mitchell B-25 medium bombers and Douglas Havoc A-20 light bombers, attacking from lower altitude, pounced on the only Japanese antiaircraft gun rash enough to open fire.
For Watchtower, the 1st Raider Battalion and the 3d Defense Battalion had been added to Vandegrift’s command to provide more infantrymen and much needed coast defense and antiaircraft guns and crews.
A light tank battalion, a special weapons battalion of antiaircraft and antitank guns, and a parachute battalion added combat power.
At sea the escorting cruisers and destroyers provided a formidable antiaircraft screen.
Antiaircraft Gun] The Marines dug in along the beaches between the Tenaru and the ridges west of Kukum.
Sometimes the raids came during the day, but the 3d Defense Battalion’s 90mm antiaircraft guns forced the bombers to fly too high for effective bombing.
The 90mm antiaircraft guns of the 3d Defense Battalion were also brought ashore early to defend against the anticipated air attacks.
Then Japanese dive bombers came roaring in, but the Allied antiaircraft fire and Marine fighter planes (VMF-212) were enough to prevent hits on the transports or beach supplies.
New Zealand and Marine fighters met them in the air and the covering destroyers put up a hail of antiaircraft fire, while the transports and cargo ships took evasive action.
The Marine 3d Defense Battalion was set up with long-range radar and its antiaircraft guns to give further protection.
In a series of combats in the air the French flyers brought down eleven German machines on the Verdun front, while two others were destroyed byantiaircraft guns.
German airmen poured machine-gun fire upon them; but the antiaircraft batteries came into play and American airmen took the air, bringing down two of the enemy planes and dispersing the others.
Padua, Vicenza, Mestre, and Venice were bombed repeatedly and suffered considerable material damage, in spite of the efficient work of Italian antiaircraft batteries.
One of these was brought down by antiaircraft guns and captured in the Grado Lagoon, mouth of the Isonzo.
German aircraft and antiaircraft guns were very active during both raids, and one of the British machines failed to return.
All the British machines returned safely, though fire from antiaircraft guns and machine guns was considerable.
Twenty German machines were brought down in air fighting, and two other German aeroplanes were shot down by antiaircraft guns.
Another machine was brought down by antiaircraft gunfire.
British antiaircraft guns shot down two other German machines, one of them being a large bombing machine, which carried four men.
One German balloon was destroyed, and two German aeroplanes were shot down by antiaircraft guns.
Although German antiaircraft gunfire was again considerable and accurate, all the British machines returned safely.
The formation was attacked by German scouts and engaged by antiaircraft guns, but all machines returned.
Another machine was shot down by antiaircraft gunfire.
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