Their ammunition also was wanted on the Somme to put down those eternal barrages with which they opposed our assaults.
The proportion of lethal shell to high-explosive gradually decreased, till the barrages were composed entirely of the latter.
However, the first movements were concealed by the intensity of our fire, and by smoke barrages put down by 4-inch Stokes mortars in the valley of the Ancre and in front of Thiepval village.
It having been decided to carry out some practice barrages in broad daylight, to note the effect of the smoke shell, and see whether any guns were shooting short, these seemed to offer good opportunity for big raids.
The artillery, as soon as it had got into its own position east of the Selle, had fired Chinese barrages over the enemy's front system on the 22nd and 23rd.
These practice barrages disclosed the fact that, as soon as they were opened, the enemy could put down a heavy bombardment of 4.
In the afternoon, as much movement had been observed in Mont Houy by the artillery observers, a series of five Chinese barrages were fired across it.
He could therefore put down heavy barrages on back areas and across the approaches to the front, so that troops in process of relief and in moving to assembly positions were frequently caught in violent bursts of shell-fire.
German trenches so that, after the first two occasions, the enemy grew used to thesebarrages and could not tell whether an attack was coming or not.
For four weeks now the batteries had carried out continual bombardments of the enemy; practice barrages had been fired, and an immense concentration of artillery had gathered together.
Such a state of affairs, which cut down the volume of fire of the brigade by over one half, was bound to reflect seriously upon the preliminary bombardments and barrages in any attack, nor was the trouble confined to the 162nd Brigade alone.
On September 18th the last two Army barrages were fired, one at 6.
Every day one and sometimes two practice barrageswere fired, and on each occasion one officer of considerable experience was sent up from every artillery group to observe the effect thereof.
The official report written later by the 23rd Division stated: "The barrages were very punctual and effective.
Protected by smoke barrages from the view of the enemy's artillery, they rolled on across the German trenches, smashing up the enemy's machine guns and driving his infantry to ground.
Japanese mortar barragesfired to soften the defenses and screen the approach could not conceal the sound of the troops working their way up the hill, and the Marines were ready.
Griesbach), under cover of very ingenious barrages arranged by the C.
The 52d and 60th were caught in barrages and most of their senior officers were killed, and failed to arrive at the time fixed for the assault.
The captains in charge of the two lines are responsible for the arrangement of the machine guns, automatic rifles and rifle grenades, the distribution of barrages and the distribution of groups for the counterattack.
Located by the infantry commander, in concealed emplacements behind the first line, to deliver successive barrages from flanking positions.
All riflemen and those grenadiers not employed in forming barrages are reserved to make a counterattack.
Located near enough to first line to hold the enemy trenches under fire and deliver effective barrages near the mouths of our own communicating trenches.
After the entrance of the United States in the war the armies on both sides developed a new type of machine-gun fighting, which consisted in indirect firing, or laying down barrages of machine-gun bullets.
In the case of the mobile held guns this meant a requirement of millions of shell or shrapnel for the incessant bombardments and the concentrated barrages which characterized the great war.
In open attacks upon machine-gun nests phosphorus grenades were thrown in barrages to build smoke screens for the attacking forces.
Following one of the practice barrages the 7th Battalion, holding the front line, sent forward a party and captured a strong point.
Smoke barrages were put down on the flanks of the intended attack, and before long the enemy infantry could be seen advancing in many waves from the country beyond Bourlon village.
When one has viewed scores of modern artillery barrages one's impressions become routine impressions, so to speak; but the night, and the hundreds and hundreds of vivid jumping flashes, made this 1 A.
The point was emphasised by the colonel, who wrote to all batteries:-- "Battery Commanders are reminded that as barrages on morning of 27th will be fired without previous registration of guns.
They all realise that with the moving of batteries, getting up the ammunition, and the frequent barrages you are called upon to provide, besides the harassing and the normal shooting, a very great strain is placed on your Brigade.
The black bars of printer's ink represented barrages of mines and nets, which, if they were once laid between the indicated spots, would blow to pieces any submarine which attempted to force a way across.
But each small success seemed to be undermined by the Japanese ability to reinforce and resupply their positions during darkness, usually screened by mortar barrages or small-unit counterattacks.
As the troops landed, naval gunfire ships let loose with rolling barrages which cleared the way.
Special noise barrages to cover the approach of the tanks.
The machine-gun barrages were all that could be desired.
June 4th, 5th, and 6th produced barrages on the Messines Ridge; they took place each afternoon, and lasted for about an hour.
Every inch of the rain-sodden landscape seemed to be heaving beneath the combined barrages of the opposing forces.
To show the sort of thing I mean I am going to put down here for the first time an old story, almost forgotten now, in the hopes that it may interest by its contrast to barrages and barbed wire.
The germ of the idea appeared during the war at Kemmel and in the various mustard gas barrages formed by artillery or delayed mines used by the Germans in their great retreat.
It was a fight such as seldom occurs in this war, where usually trench positions are so well defined that barrages can be laid safely by both sides down to a matter of inches.
Moving barrages preceded the infantry advance, which followed with clockwork precision.
You’d better go back to England, where you’ll be in the fashion with your air barrages and anti-aircraft.
Go’ bless your eyes, man, d’you think you’re in London that you must go filling the sky with barrages and bullets and waking me and every other man within miles with your cursed row.
We have smashed their trenches, broken their telephone wires, imprisoned them in barrages through which no food can come.
The position of these barrages must be known accurately, for to run into them is fatal and at night they are very apt to trap the unwary.
Small blue crosses represent the position of enemy balloon barrages and their height.
Against the increase of German machine-guns we needed the rolling barrages of our light artillery even more than on the first day after we were through the trench system.
There under countering barrages from the quick-firers and the plowing by high explosive shells, Frenchman and German had groveled in the torn earth, mixed with blood and flesh, between the throes of hectic charges for advantage.
The 33rd had brought more reserves across the river, which had to pass through powerful artillery barrages to relieve the decimated battalions at the front.
Our officers in the different headquarters were making their tables of barrages and the dispositions for attack with the routine confidence of clerks balancing a ledger.
The observers on Montfaucon might not gratify the appetite of their eyes by sending over barrages of shell-fire into such a distinct target.
Battery commanders received their table ofbarrages and their objectives of fire, and, without registering, had to trust to observation by men untried in battle or by aviators who had never before observed in a big operation.
Barrages were cleverly arranged; machine-gunners put on high points for covering fire.
If ever infantry needed powerful barrages to protect its swift charges, it was on the morning of the 9th.
Barrages of gas shells were laid across the path of the charge and into the woods ahead.
The weather as well as the barrages was in our favor.
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.
Sidenote: The barrages lift and the Greeks advance to meet the Bulgars.
When the two barrages met, both lines were to switch to short-vision-range barrage and continue to close in on any of the enemy who might have drifted through the previous curtain of fire.
Then a scattering few floated up gently, followed by increasing numbers, while still others, preserving a weight balance, jumped toward the closing barrages and leaped high, hoping to clear them.
Of barrages they were quite ignorant, although they possessed weapons of terrific power.
The possibilities of its use as artillery, in laying barrages that advance along the ground, or climb into the air, are tremendous.
Gradually, the two barrages approached each other until they finally met, and in the grey dawn the battle ended.
I quickly passed the word to Bill Hearn to have the alternate men in his line raise their barrages and heard him bark out a mathematical formula to the Unit Bosses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barrages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
