Embrasures in the pillboxes and casements were blanketed with small-fire arms and smoke, then attacked with demolitions and rifle grenades.
It was connected to and supported by a web of pillboxes and emplacements, which it in turn supported.
The pillboxes were, moreover, of such enormously strong construction that nothing short of a direct hit by a heavy shell could put them out of action.
As in the September action, particular preparation was made for the assault of all known pillboxes by special parties, and the system of posts to be established by each company was carefully and definitely decided beforehand.
The effect of our severe artillery preparation for attacks was therefore nullified, and the occupants of the pillboxes could only be ejected as a rule by hand-to-hand fighting with bombs.
The excessive difficulty of manhandling it into a position from which fire could be delivered against Japanese pillboxes and machine guns rendered it ineffective for that purpose.
As Company F waded through the waist-deep swamp, it pushed through direct enemy fire and past a large tank trap and found a line of pillboxes to its front and left flank.
These defenses consisted of mutually supporting pillboxes made of logs and sandbags, from which the Japanese could deliver interlocking bands of machine gun fire.
Company I hit a group of pillboxes and knocked out several of them as well as a 75-mm.
The 3d Platoon of Company G walked into an ambush of machine guns, which fired from two pillboxes under native shacks.
The pillboxes were knocked out without further casualties.
Pillboxes flanked the fortification, which was backed by a system of trenches.
The 2d Squadron, on the other hand, was held up by an estimated 200 Japanese who were entrenched in pillboxes and foxholes and behind the dense vegetation that covered the hilly area.
It successfully stormed thesepillboxes with rifles, BAR's, and hand grenades.
The 2d Squadron, within fifteen minutes after landing, knocked out two pillboxes on the beach, killing eight Japanese in one and five in the other.
The 1st Battalion immediately encountered a highly intricate system of pillboxes and bunkers, which slowed the attack until the tanks arrived.
The employment of tanks singly, or in small groups, materially aided the infantrymen, since the tanks could be used effectively to reduce enemy pillboxes and to flush out bamboo thickets.
These positions consisted of numerous foxholes, pillboxes of coconut logs, and L-shaped fortifications dug into the mountain sides.
Company L knocked out two pillboxes with flame throwers and a tank destroyer gun.
With two tanks remaining, it was decided to hit the flanks of the entrenched pillboxes at 1345.
The smaller specimens, such as the Tortricidae and Phycitidae and Tineidae should be "boxed" in the pillboxes provided for this purpose.
A belt arranged like a cartridge-belt, with pockets to carry pillboxes about one and one-half inch square and three-quarters of an inch deep should also be provided.
The Japanese were in a strongly fortified defensive position, which consisted of a number of heavy bunkers and pillboxes in a clearing.
Numerous pillboxes and machine gun positions were destroyed and enemy troops killed by the tank platoon on New Georgia Island.
Approximately 40 heavily fortified bunkers and pillboxes were destroyed and a large number of Japanese killed or wounded by tank fire.
Nearby, talkative Japanese work crews were building pillboxesand trenching with blasting charges.
The regiment had done its job, blasting the dozens of pillboxes with flame and demolitions, rooting out snipers, knocking out the masked batteries.
Japs dug in reinforced concrete pillboxeslaid down interlocking bands of fire that cut whole companies to ribbons.
They are waiting for the tanks to move forward to blast the numerouspillboxes between Motoyama Airfields No.
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