Sentence examples for barrage falling from inspiring English sources

The second was the barrage falling erratically as the barrels of heavy guns degrade swiftly but at differing rates during fire: for Arras, the rate of degradation of each gun barrel was calculated individually and each gun calibrated accordingly.

They seemed set to become prisoners themselves, before an artillery barrage fell on the position.

An SOS barrage fell on the 12th Australian Brigade, which was inadvertently digging-in 250 yards beyond its objective.

During this battle, the 6th Brigade was positioned to the south of Zonnebeke Lake, and the 23rd Battalion lost three officers and 101 other ranks killed or wounded, some of which were inflicted when an intense German mortar barrage fell upon their "waiting line" prior to the attack.

The homing pigeon Cher Ami saved the lives of nearly 200 American soldiers by delivering the message that a misdirected artillery barrage was falling on friendly troops.

During the battle, the 2nd Battalion lost 10 officers and 144 other ranks killed or wounded, some of which were suffered after an intense German mortar barrage had fallen upon the troops in their form-up point prior to the attack, killing or wounding up to one seventh of the assault force.

Harnessing kinetic energy from flowing of water in open channels can optimize existing facilities such as weirs, barrages and falls [17].

The responsibility for coordinating the unrelenting barrage of trains falls primarily on 10 employees who work in a nondescript six-story building in Manhattan.

The Evening Standard's Milton Shulman compared Welles to "a black-cloaked wrestler... an aggressive organ... an artillery barrage caught on a rising and falling wind.

The communist barrage had had a devastating effect, falling among the American and New Zealand gun positions, the mortar lines and the battalion echelon, as well as scoring a direct hit on an Australian engineer standing patrol.

Two British post-war reports list UB-44 as falling victim to the Otranto Barrage on 30 July but, as author Dwight Messimer points out, German records record UB-44s departure from Cattaro nine days after that.