Farther along the road was the scene of the first tank raids, where on September 16 the metal monsters waddled across to the gaping enemy and ate up his pet machine-gun emplacements before he had time to recover from his surprise.
Other machines are searching for new emplacements and signs of preparation behind the enemy trenches.
In front of the IInd and IIIrd Corps shelter-trenches had been thrown up, battery emplacements and covered ways of communication constructed, and the farmsteads lying out to the front converted into little forts.
On the night of the 22nd battery-emplacements for the siege artillery were constructed by the infantry; three on Mont St. Michel, seven on the heights on the left bank of the Moselle, and one on the right bank.
The battery emplacements had long been finished, and with the dawn of the new year 100 guns of the largest calibres stood ready to open fire on the south front of Paris.
Remember that it is of the utmost importance that the machine gun be invisible, so the firing emplacements must be made outside of the shelter, but near enough for the gun to be brought out instantly and put into action.
Shell-holes with a good field of fire and emplacements along boyaux are the best location for machine guns.
Located by the infantry commander, in concealed emplacements behind the first line, to deliver successive barrages from flanking positions.
To provide for this resistance to a finish, the machine gun emplacementsmust fulfil the following conditions: 1.
Trench Mortars: Two trench mortars have been assigned to the Central sector and the Commanding officer, Company "C," is charged with the construction of emplacements therefor and the manning of them.
Enough emplacements should be built to avoid firing daily from the emplacements especially reserved for cases of attack.
Each company must provide for emplacements for mine throwers to be served by the artillery and for pneumatic guns to be served by their own men.
Unless emplacementsare well concealed, guns will not be mounted except between evening and morning "stand to.
The concealment of machine gun emplacements is important.
Make false emplacements to utilize this dirt; also dig dummy trenches about one foot deep, leaving the sides sharp so that they will show clearly on aerial photographs.
Boyaux are sometimes used for lateral defence and often emplacements for automatic guns are arranged to cover stretches of them.
A few machine guns are set in concealed emplacements along the trench to cover important salients.
If this is inconvenient for movement along the boyau, individual emplacements must be made in the side wall for firing.
Their protection is secured by placing them under shelter during the bombardment and making their emplacements as nearly invisible as possible.
Some years ago a report came to the War Office that a foreign Power was making gun emplacements in a position which had not before been suspected of being of military value, and they were evidently going to use it for strategical purposes.
There was nothing to attract attention or suspicion about this, and numbers of these emplacements are said to have been made before war began.
They examined all the country over which they were likely to fight, both in Belgium and in France, and wherever they saw good positions for guns they built foundations and emplacements for them.
Although they afterwards planted trees all over the sites to conceal the forts within them, and put up buildings in other places to hide them, we knew perfectly well where the emplacements were and what were their shapes and sizes.
When war broke out and the troops arrived on the ground, the buildings were hastily pulled down and there were the emplacements all ready for the guns.
There were two machine-gun emplacements on the ridge, and a murderous fire was opened upon the victorious pursuers.
Shell gas was constantly used, generally being fired against our positions in the rear; artillery emplacements and such.
This appears to be a characteristic and never-ending joke with artillerymen and so we soon learned to "spot" their emplacements and go behind them, when possible.
Some of the heavy French shells fell beyond the emplacements of the big guns, and others were short.
From above the French, American and British airmen were dropping tons of explosives on the emplacements of the big guns and on the railway spurs that brought them to the firing points.
Regina, Coulee, and Courcelette Trenches bombarded and machine-gun emplacements successfully located and destroyed.
The brigadier's interest in Lieutenant Jones's gun emplacements was remote and theoretical, and either way was of small importance.
He is the aeroplane photograph of a strategic position, that shows what gun emplacements are obvious and which are not.
Tanks were ashore but “not available,” and coconut log emplacements provided the Japanese with strong defensive positions.
It was necessary to employ heavy demolition charges to breach emplacements sufficiently for the employment of flamethrowers and grenades.
The empty emplacements were badly damaged, but as soon as the guns switched on to another target, the New Zealand gunners rebuilt their emplacements and were again ready to fire within twenty minutes of the bombardment.
From the Turkish trenches on the Chessboard, officers were quite obviously marking down our machine gun emplacementscommanding the Nek and Russell's Top.
Its object was not the total destruction of the hostile trench system, but the disorganization of the defence by the smashing of concrete emplacements and shelters.
A certain number of the emplacements were allotted to each howitzer battery of the Divisional Artillery, and also to such 6-inch howitzer batteries of the Corps Heavy Artillery as were available.
Many elaborate emplacements have been constructed in the European war, using steel and concrete, but for a hasty cover in the field the simple emplacement shown in the figure is recommended.
The present tendency seems to be to hold them concealed and place them into position in the trenches or emplacements at the moment of combat.
I then travelled parallel to the trench, knocking out machine-gun emplacements and snipers’ posts all the way down to point U.
The infantry kept in touch all the way down, moving slightly in rear of tank, and after emplacements were knocked out they took the occupants prisoners.
Driving over machine-gun emplacements was the feature of this attack; it eliminated all chance of the enemy “coming to life” again after the attack had passed by.
At Alberta strong wire still existed, and this farm was defended by concrete machine-gun emplacements with good dug-outs.
Near these are gun emplacements with the guns still in their original positions pointing back towards the locality where the British troops are at present billeted in their many rest areas.
The manufacture of heavy ordnance keeps pace with current needs, but to render these guns available for the purposes they are designed to meet emplacements must be prepared for them.
At that date, however, there were practically no carriages upon which to mount these guns and only thirty-one emplacements for guns and sixty-four for mortars.
With a supply of finished guns of large caliber already on hand, to which additions should now rapidly follow, the wisdom of providing carriages and emplacements for their mount can not be too strongly urged.
The galleries which lead upwards and outwards from this underground barracks to the observation posts and machine-gun emplacements in the open air, are cunningly planned and solidly made.
The posts and emplacements to which they led are now, however, (nearly all) utterly destroyed by our shell fire.
These emplacements were in exactly the right position for use against the fortresses of Germany's foes.
The male tank was designed for dealing with the concrete emplacements for the German machine guns.
Because of the lack of telephone communication it was impossible to send reinforcements to the troops that had been held up by barbed wire and other emplacements and upon which German machine guns were pouring a steady stream of death.
Field pieces sending their shells hurtling only a few feet above the earth tore the wire emplacements of the enemy to pieces and made kindling wood of the supports.
Not only this, but as the muddy flats and marshy islands did not permit of artillery emplacements the Italians developed an immense fleet of floating batteries.
The line itself contained double machine-gun emplacements of ferro-concrete, one hundred and twenty-five yards apart, with lesser emplacements between them.
A bombing party working up toward the mole in search of the enemy destroyed several machine gun emplacements but not a single prisoner awarded them.
Our principal weakness," he continued, "is that Brialmont's full design of infantry trenches and sunkenemplacements for light artillery has never been completed.
On the main inner triangle is the infantry parapet, shaped somewhat like a heart, pierced for rifle fire and with machine-gun emplacementsat the angles.
The six gun emplacements are clearly discernible, and my dug-out, in which I had spent so many weird hours, gaped eloquently before me.
The two-horse artillery guns and the 18-pounders are behind emplacements just below, and are within megaphone distance from the observation post.
There is a great deal of work required to complete such emplacements for a whole battery.
Eight machine-gun emplacements were made, fitted with traversing mountings for indirect fire.
Company, however, himself galloped a limber along this line of guns, dropping water and ammunition at the emplacementsin the face of close-range fire.
The enemy, with great cunning, offered no resistance to the tanks in the streets, either lying motionless in his emplacements or retiring into dug-outs and cellars while the tanks were passing.
All gun ammunition had therefore to be brought to the gun emplacements on pack-saddles, eight rounds only being carried on each horse.
On reaching the support line an exact replica of the fire-trench was met with; three belts of wire and the accompanying pill-boxes and machine-gun emplacements lay in front of the trench, but this time a further feature was added.
Wire cutting was undertaken and carried out by all field batteries, and the heavies pounded enemy emplacements and communication trenches in the rear.
Skilfully concealed, at frequent intervals, wereemplacements for both trench-mortars and machine-guns, all heavily concreted and covered on top with turf.
Their job is to keep a close watch on hostile trenches, watching for any unusual movement or for the appearance of new constructive works, such as machine gun emplacements or new saps.
The emplacements are often in deep wooded valleys.
Behind the crest of the plateau we could see the emplacements of four guns at intervals of about forty yards, but they had not been used in this engagement and may have been shelling some more distant objective.
The craters of thirty-two French shells were within twenty paces of the emplacements and the ground was strewn with splinters and shrapnel cases.
They had had machine-gun emplacements here, and deep dug-outs under cover of earth-banks.
Trenches had disappeared, concrete emplacements had been overturned, breastworks had been flung like straws to the wind.
One of my good friends was wounded in front of one of these emplacements in command of his battalion of 8/1Oth Gordons, and it was by an odd chance that I saw him as he lay wounded in a casualty clearing-station a few hours later.
Wytschaete village was a fortress position, with machine-gun emplacements made for defence on all sides, but the Irish closed round it and captured it easily.
There were two or three machine-gun emplacements which gave us a bit of trouble, but not much.
At Polderhoek the enemy had a nest of dug-outs and machine-gun emplacements behind the chateau, and in spite of the assaults of Warwicks and Norfolks held them by unceasing fire.
Here it had flung up machine-gun emplacements and made rubbish-heaps of their casemates and guns.
They made machine-gun emplacements not only in pits and trenches, but in branches of many trees, and wired themselves in with many twisted strands.
It was in that way finally that they made the last close dash upon the emplacements and destroyed them.
They had knocked parapets, dug-outs, and machine-gun emplacements about.
German mounds and fortified positions near the front lines were battered in, and all machine-gun emplacements were carefully registered in case of sudden emergencies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emplacements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
