Sentence examples for protective fire from inspiring English sources

"My grandfather went on the beaches of Normandy under the protective fire of American battleships," he told me last fall.

An AC-130 gunship that could have provided protective fire for the Rangers was pulled from the scene because the low-flying, slow-moving planes are too vulnerable to rockets and missiles during the day.

The Delta troops, operating from heavily armed vehicles, counterattacked with grenade launchers and machine guns (a maneuver known as Final Protective Fire) and killed or wounded an estimated hundred and eighty Iraqis, with no further injury to themselves.

Eugene Carroll, a retired admiral who is now vice-president of the Centre for Defence Information, a Washington think-tank, believes that the idea of putting ashore large numbers of troops under protective fire from warships is a relic of the second world war, and now irrelevant.

Protective fire fighting clothing is generally chosen for its thermal and fire resistant properties, while also considering the weight, bulk and ease of movement of the suit.

A bastion, a large earthwork projecting eastwards from the Bastille, was built to provide additional protective fire for the Bastille and the Arsenal; the bastion was reached from the fortress across a stone abutment using a connecting drawbridge that was installed in the Bastille's Comté tower.

The agents are also given a set of ear plugs as well as a full set of "bunker gear," protective fire-fighting suits including helmets, boots, face shields and respirators.

"One of the last fail-safe methods a firefighter can do is literally to dig as much as they can down and cover themselves with a protective fire-resistant material, with the hope that the fire will burn over the top of them and they can survive it," he said.

Another witness whose testimony was gathered for the UN's 2015 war crimes investigation, told the Guardian that cluster bombing was "something that continuously happened in the protective [no fire] zones.

This approach also enables researchers to quantify the effect of other protective systems (fire and gas detection, emergency shut-down, depressurization and firewalls) on the level of required fireproofing.

The battalion had the advantage of calling for protective artillery fire covering all approaches.