The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target.
1The barrage fire kept up right up to zero, as per schedule.
2The barrage fire which had been called for began at once.
3To accomplish this they traversed an open ground through a German barrage fire.
4But a barrage fire is being laid down between our first and second lines.
5The barrage fire had lifted, biting deeper into the ranks and trenches of the Germans.
6He's got his starboard batteries plus his ventral and dorsal turrets laying down barrage fire.
7Directly after that they started the hottest barrage fire you've seen in a month of Sundays.
8The barrage fire continues to increase its infernal discharge behind us on the ground that we have crossed.
9The Germans had not even that source of comfort, for whatever it might be worth under barrage fire.
10But don't get ahead of the barrage fire-thatis, if you want to come back, he added significantly.
11I should not be surprised if the promised attack and advance under barrage fire is to begin before morning.
12Fighting has been a question of trench raids, and barrage fire, followed by the infantry charge through shell holes.
13It was carried out in brilliant moonlight, and despite a terrific German counter barrage fire and a sea of mud.
14A barrage fire is such a focusing of shot and shell that it forms a veritable descending curtain of projectiles.
15When it gets dark, the Italians direct their barrage fire farther back, and give you a chance to climb out.
16We discovered at last the cause of the maddening inactivity of the detachment's tail-"There'sa barrage fire beyond."
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