They were compelled to leave the building because the enemy practically destroyed it by gunfire and the infantry almost surrounded the hill, but they obtained cover on the boulder-strewn sides of the hill and held their assailants at bay.
We saw trees uprooted, others lose their limbs, and naval gunfire threatened the foundations of the old chief's burying place.
The enemy drew off, but to save the remnants of his storming troops kept our positions from near Ras et Tawil, Tel el Ful to the wadi Beit Hannina under heavy gunfire for the rest of the day.
Will we get back the daytime naval supporting gunfire and also the star shell illumination?
It didn’t occur to us that somebody could be up in that smokestack after all the preparatory naval gunfire and everything that had been fired into the area, but he was up there all right.
What the regiment found was a shambles; the town had been completely leveled by naval gunfire and Marine artillery.
Or had the withering blast of gunfire from the Japanese cruiser sent him sailing off into thin air and death?
Had the cruiser's gunfire touched it off--and had Freddy and he failed?
Again, there was the transport Mercian, Captain Walker, which was attacked bygunfire from a hostile submarine in the Mediterranean.
The noise of gunfire was coming nearer, shaking the ground like the uneven tread of a drunken giant.
There was a distant blot of gunfire on the air, just as they reached the door of the crypt.
The roar of gunfire has increased a hundredfold, to left, to right, and in front of us.
From all sides the gunfire and the bursting shells hurl their swift shafts of light and stripe confusedly the black sky over our heads.
Yes, but something to give a gallop to the pen of the writer after the monotony of gunfire and bombing.
Speaking over the telephone to the blind guns, he was interested only in the control of gunfire in this sector.
The effect of this was that many a British machine was forced to land, disabled by gunfire or through engine failure, and the occupants, even though unwounded, were lost to their own side till the end of the war.
Behind us, far off, we could hear the booming of the guns, which seemed from hour to hour to come a little nearer, and flashes of distant gunfire flickered in the night sky.
There was a tremendous crescendo of gunfire at this time.
Down from the line the throbbing roll of the gunfire rose louder and heavier, with a new, an ugly and sinister snarling note running through it.
And if he hears anything, there's plenty of heavygunfire all along the front going up to him.
After a few minutes of fast going, they could hear the faint crackling of gunfire ahead of them, carried on the torrid wind.
Gunfire began to blaze out in sharp, reëchoing volleys.
General Shepherd quickly asked Geiger to assign his division to the seaward flank to continue the benefit of direct naval gunfire support.
As the troops landed, naval gunfireships let loose with rolling barrages which cleared the way.
Naval gunfire support, for example, had never been so thoroughly effective, beginning with the 3,800 tons of munitions delivered on L-Day.
There was enough gunfire to create a real possibility that somebody got nicked, or worse.
The Bates Motel had taken some heavy gunfirearound the entrance, but it was still usable, with the ARM team milling around and readying to depart.
Amid the gunfire the old man had reached the SatCom helicopter, while the guard was now making a dash for its protection, too, even as he covered himself with another spray from the automatic that the damn fools had let him get.
Some more random gunfire exploded behind them as he struggled and stumbled up the rocky slope, but now a dense cloud of red completely obliterated the scene below.
He scooped it up and stumbled through the doorway, to the sound of muted gunfire down the hill, as the other two hoods continued to advance.
Andros; everybody was ordered to stay at their posts and not take a break; and there had even been what sounded like gunfire from the sector where the clean room was.
Ramirez was edging down the side of the gantry, the cold angle-iron against his back, when there was an eruption of gunfire down the hill.
There were two lines of barbed-wire entanglements, one in the bed of the stream which would prevent fording or swimming, and which, being under water, could not easily be destroyed by gunfire from the southern bank.
The noise of the gunfirepenetrates to us in separate, spasmodic outbreaks.
Thus the Germans could shell Rheims to their hearts' content, and the Allies could not silence that gunfire from their own fortified positions.
At no place more than a mile and a half from the river, it was always within gunfire of any crossing.
The defenses of Liege were hardly worth an enemy's gunfire before 1890.
So we have agreed to exchange a message at gunfire if 'all is well.
Nine-thirty gunfire will see you started for the Land o' Nod.
The College of Electors is acting now to ratify--" A burst of gunfire caught the colonel in the back; he spun and fell, with a single hoarse cry.
The next morning in the direction indicated by that report several patrol boats heard the sound of gunfire and overhauled a steamer which had been attacked by a submarine.
This was demonstrated to some extent by the British raids on the German naval bases of Cuxhaven and Wilhelmshaven, but even in these instances it was bombs dropped by aviators, not gunfire that injured the enemy's works.
As the "Oakland" was the temporary flagship of this fleet of two gunboats, this gunfire was the signal for the submarines to move on out of the bay.
These two villains were just sipping from their last cups of coffee when, even in the dining room, there reached their ears the muffled sound of gunfire from the bay.
I hardly noticed that the sound of gunfire died raggedly away.
Then we heard the spatter of gunfire and Gogarty, clutching at me, skidded to a halt.
As I watched, there was a crackle of automatic gunfire from the entrance.
Railway lines and an electric power station at Zarren were attacked by gunfire from the air, and bombs were dropped on a train near St. Denis-Westrem.
It was expected that the Germans would stubbornly defend St. Quentin and Lens, which were now the British objectives, and on which the heaviest British gunfire was now concentrated.
One of their machines was brought down by German gunfire and six were missing at the end of the day.
Near the Norfolk coast she apparently succeeded in effecting repairs, and, after passing through gunfire from the land defenses, which claimed to have made a hit, proceeded east at high speed and at an altitude of over 8,000 feet.
Again and again the Russian regiments would sweep up against the strongly fortified and strongly held Austro-German lines, after gunfire of unheard-of violence had attempted to prepare their task.
In eastern Galicia thegunfire was lively only in the Brzezany sector.
And here the "tanks" did effective service, their appearance creating consternation among the German troops, whose gunfire was powerless to injure or to impede the triumphal progress of these ungainly forts on wheels.
The attackers evidently expected that their heavy gunfire had demoralized the defenders and looked for an easy victory, but they were speedily repulsed with considerable losses.
According to an eyewitness of this attack, the first wave of German soldiers advancing to attack was thrown in disorder by the intense gunfire from the British positions.
The British gunfire they had believed was simply the usual morning salutation, and remained in their dugouts until it was over.
She was attacked nine miles out at sea by four machines of the British Royal Naval Air Service, while gunfire was opened from an armed British trawler, and the airship was finally brought down in flames.
Taren't proper warfare, like gunfire in an open action.
The Athene, leading the line of destroyers, met the heavy gunfire of the Klopstock, and engaged her at a range of about three thousand yards.
Following this came a burst of gunfire with the acrid powder-smoke filling the room and making seeing next to impossible.
Some of the naval bombardment had begun at a range of over seven miles, and the official Marine history summarized, “The gunfire plan .
What Japan had lacked in electronic sight, however, it partially made up with its super-brilliant airplane-dropped flares and naval gunfire star shells.
Bucky” Buchanan was the assistant naval gunfire officer for the 4th Division at Tinian.
The planes dropped 69 tons of explosives before the offshore gunfire resumed for another 35 minutes.
The concussion of a big gunfire had shivered every window in this quarter of town.
At the approach of the enemy hundreds of splendid trees had been felled to clear the way for gunfire from the inner defenses in the event that the Germans got by the outer circle of fortresses.
