The rolling barrage laid down by the 2nd Field Artillery fell beyond rather than on top of the German entrenchments.
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The 2nd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment in direct support was to provide a 20-minute preparation followed by a rolling barrage.
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The bombardment took place over two days, included gas shells and concluded with a rolling barrage, behind which the infantry was to advance.
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We had been taught the following procedure for taking a pillbox : Artillery would lay down a rolling barrage of smoke and shell.
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One RAF tactic, the Tedder Carpet, consisted of squadrons of successive bombers dropping a rolling barrage of bombs just ahead of their own advancing forces.
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It then continued on to its final objective, positions from its jump-off point, just as the rolling barrage reached its final line, at 08 : 13.
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The 142nd and 141st were each to advance in column of battalions behind a rolling barrage to begin upon the conclusion of a four-minute preliminary bombardment.
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On the Canadian front, Operation Atlantic began at 08 : 15, with a rolling barrage and infantry and tanks crossed their start line twenty minutes later.
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The main attack began at 5 : 50 am on 30 October and was preceded by a rolling barrage with a preliminary artillery bombardment directed largely at pillboxes.
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At 05.50 the Staffords set off, with almost a mile to go before they reached the canal, following a fast-moving rolling barrage of field guns and machine-guns firing overhead.
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