Sentence examples similar to storm of shells from inspiring English sources

Two British battle groups pushed into Basra today, taking at least half of the city in a storm of artillery shells and tank fire.

According to the regimental historian, "the men instinctively turned their sides to the storm" of bullets, shot and shell as they advanced and casualties were heavy.

Soon French troops were seen staggering back through a storm of high-explosive and gas shells, past the Canadian batteries and reserve infantry battalions.

It is where the Calusa Indians, who were wiped out in the 1700s, lived, layering the land with mounds of shells and sand that remain today to help protect it from storms.

When storms blow in from the northwest, the waves and currents funnel more than 300 shallow-water species of shells right onto the beach.

"Hundreds of shells and rockets.

Collect a lot of shells and fruit.

There are different shapes of shells.

In her first naval gunfire support action of Desert Storm she shelled an Iraqi command and control bunker near the Saudi border, the first time her 16 inches guns had been fired in combat since March 1953 off Korea.

The shelling has whipped up a furious storm of protest in Kabul, with loud denunciations from President Hamid Karzai's government, but Afghan security forces have not retaliated militarily.

Presented with a storm of criticism, the Ministry of Defence admitted that Israeli-manufactured cluster shells had been fired by the Royal Artillery's long-range howitzers around Basra.