For example, " because of the casualties taken at Iwo Jima on the first day, it was decided to make the preparatory bombardment the heaviest yet delivered on to a Pacific island ".
22.
Along with the 1st Australian Division it was caught in the German preparatory bombardment for ( Operation High Storm ) but this stopped when the British hurricane bombardment began at as the Australian advance began.
23.
A preparatory bombardment was to begin on 12 September but no hurricane bombardment was to be fired at zero hour, the tanks and the creeping barrage being relied on to keep the Germans under cover.
24.
The third position was incomplete and the second position was not as elaborate as the defences to the north but all available labour was absorbed in keeping the first position in repair during the preparatory bombardment.
25.
As the artillery began its preparatory bombardment, Von Der Goltz began ferrying over the 52nd Division from his reserve on the left bank to reinforce the divisions which were now fully alert and manning the trenches.
26.
A preparatory bombardment had begun on 11 July, in which of front line and of other trenches, about the ground bombarded before 1 July, was shelled by the guns, an intensity five times greater.
27.
The idiom " The balloon's going up ! " as an expression for impending battle is derived from the very fact that an observation balloon's ascent likely signaled a preparatory bombardment for an offensive.
28.
The noted German artillery commander, Georg Bruchm�ller, having served opposite Brusilov's Front at this time, would learn from and adapt these tactics when planning the preparatory bombardment for Operation Michael on the Western Front in 1918.
29.
A three-day preparatory bombardment began on 2 June and on 6 June, French infantry captured the main road through the village, as the German garrison replied with massed small-arms fire from cellars and demolished houses.
30.
French gunners were hampered ( " paralysed " ) by their ignorance of the positions of the infantry and left unable to fire a preparatory bombardment; the gunners concentrated on shelling German reserves seen advancing and on counter-battery fire.
