Machine-gun Sentence Examples

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  • A machine-gun in the fortified zone was firing on them, and Lt.-Comm.

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  • C. Halahan at the head of the bluejackets amidships was killed by machine-gun fire.

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  • We've got to start moving everything within twenty-four hours, Lon told them, slinging a machine gun over his shoulder.

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  • They advanced toward the lighthouse and reached the lookout station, where they were held up again by machine-gun fire.

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  • He drove the enemy off the ridge, except at one point where a gallant handful of men still clung to a knob of hill that had been made into a machine-gun redoubt.

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  • Manufactured in large quantities it soon became an essential part of infantry as well as of artillery and machine-gun equipment.

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  • The first Turkish position was broken through in one place, but progress was arrested by flanking machine-gun fire and counterstrokes, and everywhere the Turks held their third position firmly.

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  • By now the eight machine gun armament had been superseded by combinations of machine gun and cannon or cannon alone.

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  • These forts used anti-tank artillery and rifles to halt the tanks and machine gun fire to annihilate the accompanying infantry.

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  • Just behind the tanks, straddling the trench line, came Bradleys pumping machine-gun bullets into Iraqi troops.

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  • On one occasion a machine gun was also being used firing tracer bullets.

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  • I say this, because David later went on to become a corporal in the Machine Gun Corps.

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  • He was in charge of the machine gun detachment of the battalion.

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  • On a heterodyne bat detector the calls are a machine-gun like series of regular clicks for bursts of 5 to 10 seconds.

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  • If you put a machine-gun emplacement anywhere in Mosul, for instance, it will be next to antiquities.

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  • Classification kept as a machine-gun emplacement, June 7 1941.

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  • When forced to retire to the enemy's first line, he captured a machine gun and shot the gunner with his revolver.

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  • Walk into them and it will transport you to a level where you are a flea with a heavy machine gun.

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  • Today, the outline of a trench is clearly visible, along with machine-gun nests and bunkers.

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  • In addition, the attacking planes would fly low, strafing the emergency personnel with machine gun fire.

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  • I remember that the 32ft pedal reed often resembled machine gun fire, which I think was due to the dryness of the accoustic.

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  • In 1917, while fighting in France, CSM Brooks captured a German machine-gun nest single-handed.

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  • This meant mounting the machine gun on the top wing above the pilot's head, or out on a wing spar.

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  • Harrison had led a rush along the parapet, where he and several of his men were killed by machine-gun fire.

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  • I machine-gun team would provide a sustainable 450 rounds per minute equivalent to 22, or more, riflemen.

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  • This meant mounting the machine gun on the top wing above the pilot 's head, or out on a wing spar.

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  • My first priority were the rocket launcher guys, and then the 2nd priority were the machine gun turret people.

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  • Go back to the locker room and the locker that you couldn't open before is now ajar, giving you access to a machine gun and ammunition.

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  • I recommend you treat yourself to the machine gun for this trick.

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  • Heavy machine-gun fire was concentrated on her; two officers were dangerously wounded and two of the launch's crew of four killed, but she got clear.

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