Sentence examples for intense artillery from inspiring English sources

Intense artillery strikes and waves of aerial bombardment were reported across the Gaza Strip.

The Chinese infiltrated allied outposts at night, then attacked under the support of short, intense artillery barrages.

In addition, each German infantry advance would have its way smoothed by a brief but extremely intense artillery bombardment that would clear the targeted ground of defenders.

But he placed an optimistic overreliance on his theory of combining "great violence with great mass," which basically consisted of intense artillery bombardments followed by massive frontal attacks.

Despite efforts to protect the wire lines, they were frequently cut at critical times as the result of the intense artillery fire.

The main German attacks would begin with brief but extremely intense artillery bombardments using a high proportion of poison gas and smoke shells.

Three companies of the 2nd Battalion British West Indies Regiment, (Chaytor's Force) supported by the 160th Brigade's battery, "drove in" Ottoman outposts and captured a ridge to the south of Bakr Ridge at 15:25, despite intense enemy artillery and machine gun fire.

In one sector of the battlefield, the men of the Fourth Vermont Infantry had endured a day of intense enemy artillery and infantry fire.

Shelling around the city of Donetsk on Sunday followed an intense overnight artillery bombardment, shaking an already fragile ceasefire.

She wasn't able to reach Dunkirk until the latter, and most dangerous stage of the operation in the first days of June, when boats were unable to use the jetty and had to come into the beach under intense German artillery fire.

The mounted infantry and cavalry brigades were unable to advance further due to intense Ottoman artillery fire which continued throughout the day.