In many seawall emplacements, these lethal weapons were sited to provide flanking fire along wire entanglements and other boat obstacles.
The fundamental choice faced by most other Marines on Betio that day was whether to stay put along the beach or crawl over the seawall and carry the fight inland.
Combat engineers had blown a hole in the seawall for the tanks to pass inland, but the way was now blocked with dead and wounded Marines.
Attacking inland beyond the relative safety of the seawall on D-Day required an even greater measure.
Durand, one of Drewes’ company commanders, saw a Japanese officer standing defiantly on the seawall waving a pistol, “just daring us to come ashore.
As he described one scene: Amtrack Number 4-8 is jammed against theseawall barricade.
Company G could barely cling to a crowded stretch of beach along the seawall in the middle.
Company F suffered 50 percent casualties getting ashore and swarming over the seawall to seize a precarious foothold.
Rick stepped to the seawall with the stern line as the craft swung completely around, and the boys made the boat fast.
Rick edged the rounded nose of the houseboat against the seawall as Scotty stepped ashore carrying the bowline.
The Seawall Church has already sent out its influences to the ends of the earth.
On the near side, the seawall makes an elbow crooked inversely, and its end too has a lighthouse.
At the outset he lagged behind and seemed to be hopelessly out of the race, but, urged on by the cries of his Seawall friends, he got his second wind when half the distance was over and began to pull up on the leaders.
Mother is nervous about your going to Seawall in the Black Duck.
Halfway to theSeawall pier the boys met the Seagull, with a party aboard.
The Black Duck was tied up securely and the boys, after getting the ball, made for the little playground which had been established by some of the public-spirited citizens of Seawall several years before our story opens.
Owing to the curve of the Seawallshore we are now about a mile out.
The gallant rescue was the talk of Seawall that night.
It was a night of jubilation, and the whole of Seawall joined to make a celebration of the wonderful feat of the two swimmers.
Look, Jimmy," said Frank, "that big light over there to the left must be on Seawall Pier.
He got a great send-off at the Seawall station as you may well suppose, for in spite of his rather odd ways and sarcastic tongue he was a most likable boy.
A marvellous opportunity to see the magnificent scenery of Seawall Bay by motor boat.
That's Seawall over there, and while we are going sideways, like a crab, we may fetch up all right.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seawall" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
