Bombproof dugouts had been constructed deep in the ground.
Rentel reported that his engineers used both large blocks of TNT and an entire case of dynamite on the large bombproof shelter alone.
USMC, was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for extreme bravery during the assault on the Japanese bombproof shelter on D+2.
Three fortifications were especially formidable: a steel pillbox near the contested Burns-Philp pier; a coconut log emplacement with multiple machine guns; and a large bombproof shelter further inland.
Illustration: The 8th Marines makes its final assault on the large Japanese bombproof shelter near the Burns-Philp pier.
Owing to the bombproof shelter there was no possible way of shifting the stubborn defenders.
They soon turned them into bombproof shelters, and were established there before they were discovered.
Too many prominent men, he explained, were seeking bombproof positions.
He had condemned the rush for civil offices and what he called "bombproof positions," and he wished at least to lead the way to active duty by remaining with his army.
They were to carry guns of heavy metal, and to be bombproof on the top, with a descent for the shells to slide off.
December 8, '63, by the explosion of a rebel shell which broke through the bombproof at the entrance to the Magazine of Battery Chatfield.
December 8, '63, by the explosion of a rebel shell which broke through the bombproof at the entrance to the magazine of Battery Chatfield.
I saw the under officers scampering down into the bombproof and their guns transformed into big gray leafless bushes, the boyish soldiers ran into hiding behind the blackened brick wall of a shelled house.
But this is the firing line; this bombproof is only eight hundred meters from the French trenches, and every scrap of food must count.
Just before dawn and after Beauvayse relieved you at Staff Bombproof South.
The long bombproof is heterogeneously furnished with full and empty ammunition-boxes marked A.
But she pressed her lips together and grew pale as a faint cry came up from the subterranean dwelling, roofed with sheets of corrugated iron laid upon steel rails, and made bombproof with bags of earth.
Straight as Matabele spears it comes down, sending pedestrians who have grown indifferent to shell-fire to huddle under cover, adding to the wretchedness of life in trench or bombproof as nothing else can.
Mrs. Nixey, the children, and the women of the staff inhabit a bombproof in the back-yard.
