Sentence examples for barrage lifted from inspiring English sources

Just before their arrival, the barrage lifted and began firing behind the Ottoman front line.

This creeping barrage lifted and moved forward at a rate of 50 yards, 75 yards and 100 yards per minute in front of the advancing infantry.

German infantry began to advance near Losheim before the artillery barrage lifted, preparing to cross the front line as soon as it ended.

At 23:00 the barrage lifted and the North Koreans attacked 2nd Platoon, forcing it from the hill after a short fight.

The attack went ahead regardless, ending in a costly failure, after the opening artillery barrage lifted seven minutes early, leaving the assaulting troops to attack alerted Ottoman defenders on a narrow front.

There is a moment of hope when the British barrage lifts, but Blackadder reminds his colleagues that they have stopped to avoid hitting their own men.

The creeping barrage was a barrage that lifted in small increments, perhaps 50 yards, so that it moved forward slowly, keeping pace with the infantry, who were trained to follow close behind the moving wall of their own fire, often as close as 55 yards; infantry commanders were encouraged to keep their troops as close to the barrage as possible, even at the risk of casualties from friendly fire.

And when the barrage lifts and the whistles blow for the attack to begin and they leave the shelter of the trench to walk across the dense, untended meadows of the Somme valley, we should feel that we have come to know them -- and the messy, desperate fates awaiting these particular young men would stand as symbols for the grotesque and enormous massacre that actually took place.

The standing barrage lifts were to keep all trenches within 1500 yards of the infantry under continuous fire and targets fired on by 4.5-inch howitzer, 6-inch howitzer and 8-inch howitzers were to change from them only when infantry got within 300 yards.

… The hours crept on; our barrage had lifted from the German line and now was falling on Langemarck Ridge.

Then, when the artillery barrage preparation lifted, the North Korean infantry were in position to launch their assaults.