Sentence examples similar to offensive gunfire from inspiring English sources
After Leningrad was liberated in early 1944, Kirov remained there, and took no further part in the war except to provide gunfire support for the Soviet Vyborg Petrozavodsk Offensive in mid 1944.
Israel has launched what it described as an open-ended and escalating offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, as air strikes and naval gunfire hit 50 sites overnight.
Following the landings, Allied aircraft conducted photographic reconnaissance, observed naval gunfire, reported on Ottoman troop movements, and conducted a small number of offensive bombing raids.
Gunfire and air strikes have been reported in Libya's second city, Benghazi, amid an offensive to drive out Islamist militias.
The noises were actually gunfire from the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong attack on the South ― the Tet Offensive of 1968 that would result in massive casualties on all sides. .
The offensive ultimately failed to throw the Allies back into the sea because of the intervention of Allied naval gunfire which decimated the advancing German units, stubborn Allied resistance and the advance of the British Eighth Army.
That victory provoked a bacchanal of celebratory gunfire that sent the American military into high alert, until it realized the gunfire was not some Tet-style offensive by the insurgents.
Despite being trapped, Maxim Gorky was active in two engagements: the ship provided gunfire in support for the defenders during the Siege of Leningrad, and she later bombarded Finnish positions during the Vyborg Petrozavodsk Offensive in mid-1944.
Then the gunfire stopped.
