Allied sorties pounded the enemy for more than a month as the XVIII Airborne Corps made a rapid movement westward to position its units to roll up the flank of the multi-echeloned Iraqi defense.
22.
The main objective of echeloned strips or border-cuttings with northeast exposure was to protect regeneration from overheating, and was originated in Germany and deployed successfully by Alarik ( 1925 ) and others in Sweden.
23.
The British formation was echeloned to the right with " Indefatigable " in the rear and the furthest to the west, and " New Zealand " ahead of her and slightly further east.
24.
On the French side, the 1st Light and 42nd Line were on the left with the 42nd echeloned to the right and rear of the 1st, Peyri in the center, and Digonet on the right.
25.
The temptation is for the enemy to attack the exposed flanks of this foremost unit, however were this to happen the units immediately echeloned behind the foremost unit would push forward taking the flankers themselves in the flank.
26.
Armies using the tercio generally intended to field them in brigades of at least three, with one tercio in the front and two behind, the rearward formations echeloned off on either side so that all three resembled a stepped pyramid.
27.
They were both optimized for end-on fire and had their gun turrets sponsoned out over the sides of the ship and echeloned to allow them to fire across the deck, much like the battleships " Riachuelo " and.
28.
The four companies of Servi�re's 2nd African Battalion were echeloned between Lang Son and Chu, guarding the vital French supply line up to Lang Son and labouring to improve the miserable paths over which the expeditionary corps had advanced in February into a surfaced wagon road.
29.
According to the battle log of the 3 / 6 fighter wing, of which Spisarevski was part, the battle went the following way : the American B-24 aircraft flew towards Sofia in V-shaped formations of three, echeloned in a long rear column.
30.
Some writers maintain that in Caesar's armies the use of the " quincunx " and its gaps seems to have declined, and his legions generally deployed in three unbroken lines as shown above, with four cohorts in front, and three apiece in the echeloned order.
