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Meanings of barrage fire in anglès

portuguès
bombardeio
català
línea de foc

The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target.

línea de foc
Usage of barrage fire in anglès
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The barrage fire kept up right up to zero, as per schedule.
A Yankee in the Trenches
2
The barrage fire which had been called for began at once.
The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 / History of...
3
To accomplish this they traversed an open ground through a German barrage fire.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
4
But a barrage fire is being laid down between our first and second lines.
Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops / Or, Dick Prescott at G...
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The barrage fire had lifted, biting deeper into the ranks and trenches of the Germans.
The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front / Or, The Hunt for the ...
6
He's got his starboard batteries plus his ventral and dorsal turrets laying down barrage fire.
For Honor We Stand
7
Directly after that they started the hottest barrage fire you've seen in a month of Sundays.
Our Pilots in the Air
8
The barrage fire continues to increase its infernal discharge behind us on the ground that we have crossed.
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad
9
The Germans had not even that source of comfort, for whatever it might be worth under barrage fire.
Now It Can Be Told
10
But don't get ahead of the barrage fire-thatis, if you want to come back, he added significantly.
The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front / Or, The Hunt for the ...
11
I should not be surprised if the promised attack and advance under barrage fire is to begin before morning.
Ruth Fielding at the War Front; or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldie...
12
Fighting has been a question of trench raids, and barrage fire, followed by the infantry charge through shell holes.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
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It was carried out in brilliant moonlight, and despite a terrific German counter barrage fire and a sea of mud.
America's War for Humanity
14
A barrage fire is such a focusing of shot and shell that it forms a veritable descending curtain of projectiles.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
15
When it gets dark, the Italians direct their barrage fire farther back, and give you a chance to climb out.
Men in War
16
We discovered at last the cause of the maddening inactivity of the detachment's tail-"There'sa barrage fire beyond."
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad
Translations for barrage fire
portuguès
bombardeio