Sentence examples for concrete emplacement from inspiring English sources
Newsreel pictures of a cannon rising from a concrete emplacement, pointing out to sea, is what newsreel men call a "library shot" -it's the same picture kept on file and used whenever it seemed to be called for.
The Hess battery consisted of six 150 mm guns in a concrete emplacement 1100 yards inland from the coastal cliffs.
Airfields were also constructed, and the islands on the east were joined to Mainland by concrete emplacements known as the Churchill Barriers.
Many were in concrete emplacements on top of the submarine pens and other dockside installations of the St Nazaire submarine base.
On the northwest coast, there is a preserved concrete gun emplacement outside a military museum, which praises the Kuomintang victory in the 1949 Battle of Guningtou.
Actual times to perform three operations, drill and blast, muck removal and concrete lining emplacement were much larger than expected and represent the largest portion of the total excavation cycle time and had the largest impact on the efficiency of the excavation cycles and schedules.
With Fort Tilden's re-opening, Grandberg plans to once again make the park the tour's final stop, taking groups through an artillery shed, a massive concrete gun emplacement and the pillbox, catching sight of M-16 racks inside freshly graffitied walls and deteriorating ceilings.
The area of Normandy targeted by Operation Aquatint had yet to receive any concrete gun emplacements but there was a network of coastal artillery batteries able to provide interlocking arcs of fire.
In addition to concrete gun emplacements at strategic points along the coast, he ordered wooden stakes, metal tripods, mines, and large anti-tank obstacles to be placed on the beach to delay the approach of landing craft and impede the movement of tanks.
