Under threat of a possible Japanese air attack, the 211th occupied hastily built battery positions to provide 24-hour air defense for Mare Island Naval Shipyard and Hamilton Field.
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Capt . Coombes's last battery position was on the beach at Singapore when this " Gibraltar of the East " fell to the Japanese on 15 February 1942.
23.
After occupying an important eminence in front of the town that same day, the Allies drew up all their artillery of 14 mortars and 37 cannon into battery positions.
24.
Another two-trench system ( ) was planned near the artillery reserve positions, which were about behind the existing battery positions, to be built as soon as labour became available.
25.
Although Federal troops constructed both trenches and battery positions opposing Johnston's River Line, General Sherman had no intention of a direct assault especially following his underestimation of Johnston's defensive position at Kennesaw Mountain.
26.
All five forts and three battery positions & mdash; Le�kersberget, Norra �berget and S�dra Slumpberget & mdash; were declared historic buildings in the summer of 1998 and are to be preserved for the future.
27.
The regiment, with a strength of roughly 900 men, constructed roads around Young's Point in February 1863 and in March cut levees on the west side of the river and constructed casemated battery positions opposite Vicksburg.
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At German infantry commenced small-arms fire at close range and a column of tanks led by a Tiger moved along the road into the battery position, as thirteen more tanks gave covering fire from hull down positions.
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As the return spring returns the slide forward, the breech face strips a round from the magazine into the chamber and the locking system engages the barrel and locks it with the slide in the battery position.
30.
It was realised that prepared positions were needed for the mobile batteries, and apart from those, three larger battery positions ( sometimes called " f�sten ", strongholds ) were also constructed at Le�kersberget, Norra �berget and Svedjeberget.
