The pirates instantly boarded, fired down the steerage, shooting a sailor in the loins, and throwing handgrenades amongst them.
The Buccaneers, overtaken by a storm, entered a large house near to light the matches of their grenades and wait for day, the enemy firing incessantly in defiance.
Grenades were also thrown from a work of some kind near the tree.
Bombs, Trench Mortars or Rifle Grenades we never saw, still the training was invaluable and we became a very fit battalion.
Further progress was impossible owing to machine-gun fire from defiladed positions on the main ridge, while bombs and rifle grenades were freely used by the enemy.
On throwing a few grenades the enemy began to retire.
By this time the enemy were beginning to throw grenades from their central communication trench and getting them into G11A.
The enemy had all along been using grenades freely, and very soon after the arrival of the machine guns a vigorous counter-attack was pushed against our narrow front under cover of a perfect hail of bombs.
It speaks for itself:— All ranks are warned that bombs and grenades must not be used for fishing and killing game.
Then lob over as many hand grenades as you can pile into that part of the trench and tell them to share those too.
Colored grenades were employed to mark strips for the air dropping of supplies.
The company commander also required each of his men to throw hand grenades periodically.
The crews of the tank destroyers not only fired point-blank at targets but opened the escape hatches and dropped grenades into the foxholes.
The Japanese emerged from the plane and threw grenades at the guard.
The heavy machine guns were brought into position and the American soldiers signalled for the Japanese to disrobe in order to forestall their using concealed grenades or other weapons.
The Japanese, however, quickly regained their former positions after the artillery fire ceased and again repulsed Troop G withgrenades and small arms fire.
The enemy used mortars and grenades against the battalion but was unable to penetrate its perimeter.
From this position the enemy launched an attack which the company resisted with grenades and bayonets.
Crawling behind a pillbox, he dropped three grenades into it and then reached down and pulled the machine gun barrel out of line.
The Japanese set up a machine gun in the area and attacked with grenades and rifles.
From this site the Japanese were able to roll hand grenades down on the road.
The enemy started his usual tactics of throwing grenades over the crest of the hill at Company I as it neared the top.
The infantry was short of grenades and ammunition for the 50-mm.
The rain of bullets, bombs and grenades was incessant and the breakdown of the bastions inevitable.
Two grenades lay just under his foot, a little further on a man was propped against a tree with his mouth open.
I have all the guns, grenades and needle-knives, Harl.
The grenades and the three cartridges, his own and Neilson's, he buried in a hasty hole under a tree's sprawled roots.
The Rifle Grenadiers were carrying rifle grenades in sand bags in their hands.
Our bombers occupied the far lip of the left crater, and tried to hold the right crater, which was found to be untenable owing to rifle grenades and aerial darts.
Many of these got lost, so that it was decided that it would be better to carry fewer grenades in future and that these should be worn in the equipment, the waistcoat pattern being considered the best for the purpose.
The explosion formed two craters, which were heavily bombarded with rifle grenades and aerial darts by the enemy, who evidently had no intention of trying to consolidate the crater himself.
When their ammunition was expended they used rifles and cartridges taken from the enemy dead in the trench; having no grenades they snatched and hurled back on the instant any that fell with fuses still burning.
The banging reports of bombs and grenades punctuated sharply the running roar of gun and rifle fire.
Where it won footing it spread raging to either side along the trench, shooting, stabbing, flinging hand grenades and bearing down the defenders by the sheer fury of the attack.
The charging British infantry carried hand grenadesand bombs and flung them ahead of them as they ran, and, finally, there was no thicket of barb-wire to check the swing and impetus of the rush.
Sometimes a space of two or three traverses was blasted bare of life and rendered untenable for long minutes on end by a constant succession of grenades and bombs.
In places, the men of one side or the other leaped up out of the trench, risking the bullets that sleeted across the level ground, and emptied a clip of cartridges or hurled half a dozen grenades down into the trench further along.
It seemed that from the broken grenades appeared a yellowish green vapor which sprung of its own accord upon the silent upright rank!
Hum," he commented, "kind of like the grenades the Boche used in the late lamented.
Then there came a short, sharp command and some fifteen or twentygrenades bobbed through the air to crash on the stones at the feet of the victims.
Under a hot fire of grenades dozens of the lancers fell and once, when a fungus bomb broke near by, Nelson saw half a dozen Atlanteans tumble from their saddles, the hideous yellow growths already sprouting from nostrils, mouth and ears.
You all have hand grenades as well as your rifles?
Possibly a shortage of Mills might account for this, but there can be no possible excuse for sending grenades into a fight without detonators, and no punishment could be too harsh for the officer who was responsible for this.
Every effort was made with bombs and rifle grenades to dislodge the German machine gunners from their posts on the main road, but, though Serjts.
Many were too badly shaken to go forward again, but some answered his call and collecting some more grenades the little party started back towards the Redoubt.
Towards the end of the tour the Boche started firing rifle grenades before each mortar, so that we should stoop to avoid the former and so miss seeing the flight of the latter.
Boche sent numbers of bombs and riflegrenades along the whole front.
A" and "B" Companies had exhausted all their grenades and Lewis gun ammunition in their efforts to capture this one post, but had failed, and our only hope was now that a 1st Divisional Tank would do it for us.
Norman was firing rifle grenades from "Hairpin" craters, when he received one in reply, and had to go to England with one or two pieces in him.
To make work more difficult the Boche was continually throwing bombs and rifle grenades to try and catch our working parties, and it was only after two days' vigorous retaliation that we taught him that it was wiser to keep quiet.
A perfect shower of bombs and rifle grenades were thrown after him, but he was untouched, and regained our lines without a scratch.
Then came the cruellest blow of fortune, for many of the bags and boxes of bombs sent up during the afternoon were found to contain bombs without detonators, many others were filled with types of grenades we had never seen.
Suddenly they heard the dry, smashing reports ofgrenades through the chatter of machine-gun fire on the left.
Hand over the wounded and fetch up any grenades and ammunition you can get hold of.
He crept up to one of the gruesome objects he had been avoiding, and when he crept away he half-carried, half-dragged three grenadesin a canvas bag.
He had never been any good at baseball, but he supposed that he could hit a thing as big as that gun-pit--but not one of his grenades had gone in.
In other places the case was still worse, especially as the sky had grown gloomy and rain was falling, from which the wicks in the grenades were growing damp.
At the command of Ketling and Pan Michael, the defenders began to hurl hand-grenades again, guided by the noise of the hammers.
Meanwhile he gave command to hurl hand-grenades at the enemy; these caused much damage.
Ketling gave command to throw grenades for a short time yet; then he ceased work and waited.
Discharges of cannon and grenades rent only for instants the darkness, which was afterward blacker.
In three places hammering was heard; hence the besieged were throwing hand-grenades from three places.
When the rest of the grenades had been thrown the platoon commander jumped all over Sugar Foot.
Bombs and grenades that enter his trench and fail to explode are quickly investigated, and, sooner or later, are returned to their original owners in working order.
Rifle grenades that explode in William's vicinity never fail to attract his attention, and while others attend to the wounded he looks for the stick.
Hand grenades were brought up, bound to a backing of boards, and exploded against the openings into the casemates, filling these with showers of steel splinters.
These grenades are thrown continuously by both sides, and every trench assault is first preceded and then accompanied by showers of these murderous missiles.
So far as the use of explosives is concerned, the greatest activity is found in local attacks with hand grenades and short-range howitzers.
The smaller bombs and grenades thrown by hand, although local in action, are very unpleasant, particularly between the inclosed space of a trench.
The only successful method of destroying them was with hand grenades and even this was costly.
Hand grenades or bombs are also employed which, upon bursting, liberate the gas or in some cases scatter acids or caustic soda.
Care must be taken not to place them so close to the trench that hand grenades can be thrown into the trench from beyond the obstacle.
Such as are to be considered relate chiefly to the greater time and labor of advancing, the more frequent use of darkness and the use of hand grenades to augment the fire.
Grenades and bombs= are containers, designed to be thrown by hand, by a sling, fired as a rocket or from specially constructed mortars, or dropped from aerial craft.
If the oil should fail to remain lighted it may be fired by bursting hand grenades or throwing fire balls into the trenches.
Then they’ll try crossfire from those two positions, and when that doesn’t work, they’ll begin tossing grenades and maybe get a few light mortars into action.
As the smoke cleared away, Dick saw that the two grenades tossed by Lefty and his men had done a thorough job.
From thence they dropped hand-grenades upon her decks, like apples, which growing in one field fall over the fence into another.
Collecting on the forecastle, they continued to fight with grenades and muskets.
I know where we can get some hand grenades and side-arms tonight.
Evidently the Japs had no idea that the grenades that had wrecked the tent might have come from the trench.
Get a little nearer; wait for the first shot of the main attack, and then toss a couple of grenades apiece.
Two were still on the edge when the grenades went off—Barry’s in the hole; Fred’s just ahead of them.
If you pick up some rifles and grenades and wander off into the woods, that’s your affair.
The Opinions Of Fritz= FRITZ FINDS FAULT ("Canadians are using lacrosse sticks to throw hand grenades into German trenches.
Rabbie plumped a bucket down beside him, and without words the two began plucking out the pins and hurling the grenades round the corner.
They had lost a couple of men wounded in the first attack, and had spent a merry morning frightening Boche prisoners out of their dug-outs, or in obstinate cases flinging Mills’ grenades down the stairways.
This isn’t good enough,” he shouted as another shower of grenades began to pitch over and burst with rending explosions in and about the trench.
Rabbie when the shattering roar of their exploding grenades had died down.
Wull I hell,” retorted Rabbie, rapidly pulling the pins out, and tossing his grenades over.
Many more grenades were scattered round, and Rabbie hastily filled one of his own buckets and grabbed up a sandbag he found partially filled with German grenades.
That’ll gie the Fritzez something tae think about,” he murmured, and then pounced joyfully on a full bucket of Mills’ grenades lying beside a dead bomber.
The whole wood was littered with grenades, spilt and scattered broadcast singly and in heaps—German stick-grenades and Mills’.
Their grenadeswere running short, too, and that decided the point for them.
Grenades and the bayonet were chiefly in operation.
He has had the bad luck to lose all the fingers of one hand while engaged manufacturing hand grenades for the trenches.
A red glow hung over the low mud walls, and reports said that the Turks with great gallantry and determination had rushed up to the outer ramparts with grenades and charges of dynamite.
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