| 21. | At night, AC-47 gunships provided defensive fire.
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| 22. | An estimated reinforced battalion pressed on toward the crest until it met a circle of defensive fire.
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| 23. | A failure while attempting this was deadly, because of the concentration of defensive fire from the bombers.
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| 24. | By the mid-19th century, the replacement of muskets with rifles greatly increased the accuracy of defensive fire.
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| 25. | While the throwing off of the torpedoes, received the aircraft defensive fire and suffered some heavy hits.
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| 26. | Kuribayashi specially engineered the defenses so that every part of Iwo Jima was subject to Japanese defensive fire.
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| 27. | He took control and climbed out of the defensive fire before ordering the crew to abandon the aircraft.
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| 28. | Many calls were made to orbiting gunship aircraft, artillery units, and Fast Patrol Craft to provide defensive fire.
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| 29. | Crews complained bitterly that the lack of frontal armor made them vulnerable to defensive fire from German bombers.
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| 30. | Defensive fire tasks were registered, while additional ammunition was pushed out to the forward companies in the afternoon.
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