In a neighborhood where trucks outnumber people, and sidewalks can be deserted at high noon, it has the lonely, defiant air of a fort on the Western frontier.
God help me, I cannot dodge them all!" An appalling plash within two yards of him was followed by a loud, rushing sound, diminuendo, which seemed to travel back through the air to the fort and died in an explosion which stirred the very river to its deeps!
It soon came under air attacks, as the fort was outside of the SAM "umbrella", and faced stiff resistance from the fort's garrison.
Under fire from the air and from the fort, the attack bogged down to a complete halt before the Egyptians began to retreat.
Have a fan to circulate air and keep your fort inflated.
The fort came under air and artillery strikes at 14 00.
After WWII, there was a worldwide disbandment of British forts as advances in air defence systems caused them to become obsolete.
From the air, the city looks like a frontier fort (which is what it originally was) in the middle of a vast flatland.
At Dallas-Fort Worth International, another big air travel hub, 200 officers are replacing 197 members of the Guard.
By air, Lawton is served by the Lawton-Fort Sill Regional Airport (LAW, KLAW).
FORT TILDEN'S GUNS BRING DOWN AIR FOE; Shot Cuts Piano Wire Joining the Target to Plane and It Drops Into Sea.
