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    In military usage, a barrage is massed sustained artillery fire (shelling) aimed at a series of points along a line. In addition to attacking any enemy...
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  • up barrage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Barrage may refer to: Barrage (Barrage album), by band Barrage Barrage (Paul Bley album), 1965 Barrage (group)...
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    A barrage balloon is a type of airborne barrage, a large uncrewed tethered balloon used to defend ground targets against aircraft attack, by raising aloft...
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    of trenches, each gun firing several rounds per minute for hours. Artillery barrages were also used to divert the enemy's attention from the site of attack...
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  • Altitude) barrage balloon battalion "was raised up in 1942 just a year after the Coast Artillery Corps took over responsibility for barrage balloons from...
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    incorporate an artillery piece that was used in the war or battle commemorated. List of artillery Advanced Gun System Artillery museums Barrage (artillery) Beehive...
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    British mines, barrages and bombardments was improved by advances in artillery survey, flash spotting and centralised control of artillery from the Second...
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    the barrage came from. Since the barrage does not take much time to execute, however, the rocket artillery can move away quickly. Gun artillery can use...
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    post-war era. The creeping barrage artillery tactic, developed during the War, required precise synchronization between the artillery gunners and the infantry...
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    postwar era. The creeping barrage artillery tactic, developed during the war, required precise synchronization between the artillery gunners and the infantry...
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  • Barrage is a military term covering a wide range of structures, devices, or measures for destroying something to constrain or impede the movement of troops...
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    Salvo (category Naval artillery)
    Wiktionary, the free dictionary. List of multiple-barrel firearms Barrage (artillery) Broadside Fusillade Volley fire Gast Gun Meroka CIWS Metal Storm...
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    Broadside (naval) (category Naval artillery)
    list of broadsides of major World War II ships for a comparison. Barrage (artillery) Salvo Fusillade Volley fire Early history of sailing ship tactics...
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    two from the field artillery; a machine-gun barrage in the middle made five belts, each 200 yd (180 m) deep. The creeping barrage started quickly, lifting...
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    communication and transport plans to work with the barrage plans. A 1.6 million shell allotment allowed the artillery along the Canadian Corps front to maintain...
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  • preliminary bombardment, but for the attack the divisional artillery was reinforced, firing a lifting barrage of smoke, high explosive (HE) and shrapnel shells...
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    321st Field Artillery in firing a rolling barrage for the infantry, while the 1/320th and the French 219th artillery fired a "standing barrage" to protect...
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    Antiaircraft Artillery Searchlight Battalion Barrage Balloon Battalion and in the 1950s: Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion. On 9 March 1942 Antiaircraft...
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    QF 18-pounder gun (category World War I artillery of the United Kingdom)
    "Artillery in Offensive Operations", Appendix IV, January 1917 "Artillery in Offensive Operations", 13. Ammunition for the Field Artillery Barrage, January...
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  • massive barrage. The attack began before dawn and by first light the break-in was going well, with a number of villages taken. After a second artillery preparation...
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    including strikes and barrages from artillery, mortars, rocket artillery, and missiles; naval gunfire support from naval artillery; airstrikes, strafes...
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    the field guns were to lay down a barrage in front of them. Some artillery commanders tried out a 'Creeping barrage', but in X Corps the 18-pdrs were...
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  • and naval bombardment before the full artillery barrage opened at 04.20 on 8 July. The infantry followed the barrage and made good progress, and by the end...
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    walking barrage, he may continue sending correction orders. The FO may be called upon to direct fire for close air support and/or naval artillery in addition...
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    the SOS barrage being fired. A second attack mid-morning was stopped by the SOS barrage, but when the British artillery fired a practice barrage the Germans...
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    single barrage on a target. The saturation fire produced by rocket artillery is only somewhat approximated in effectiveness with gun artillery via the...
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    several variations for applying artillery (and mortar and naval gun) fire for suppressive effect. In World War I a moving barrage was the normal method; shrapnel...
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    military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers,...
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    better fortified than the previous year, so it ordered a systematic artillery barrage on these defences. In the meantime, it continued the development of...
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  • needed] 2005 Cannonball RHINO Driver John Warden E-4 Army 2005 Major Barrage Artillery commander David Vennemeyer O-4 Army 2005 Tiger Claw Ninja apprentice...
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