When not drawing or supplying ammunition to affiliated battery wagon lines, the Islanders had to go forward and collect empty cartridge cases, or salvage ammunition left at vacated battery positions and on occasion found at abandoned enemy artillery positions.
32.
British aircraft caused a feeling of defencelessness among German troops and deprived them of the support of the " Fliegertruppen ", leaving them dependent on wasteful unobserved area artillery-fire, while being vulnerable to British aircrew seeing muzzle-flashes giving away battery positions.
33.
The Derby of 1946 was the first to be run at Epsom since 1939, the course having been used as an anti-aircraft battery position during the 50 / 1 in a field of seventeen in a race run on soft ground.
34.
The following day, assisted by aircraft from, she bombarded shore establishments, battery positions and shipping in the harbor of Oneglia, Italy, obtaining hits on two large enemy cargo ships, destroying one coast defense battery and one anti-aircraft battery near the harbor.
35.
He took his Forward Observation Officer's party across an open valley, swept by Machine Gun fire where no movement had taken place since first light, made contact with the Battery Position, thus giving the Battalion Commander communication with his forward Company ."
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It was only in a cloud layer at lower regions that violent gusts caused his machine to gradually descended more steeply, and I had to watch as he could no longer set it down evenly, and saw it impact beside a battery position.
37.
Today, the battery positions appear ( from Google maps ) to have been destroyed, but the center point of the battery would fall roughly at the left field foul pole of the first baseball field southeast of the corner of Castle and Flash Roads.
38.
:: This was important to me personally to expand out of the stub so I could read it to my father, who was on the destroyer which ran reconnaissance under the Cherbourg guns provoking fire so an army air pilot could map the German battery positions.
39.
For 1974, Mike Tomkinson conceived a large-capacity endurance racer based on a 1000 cc Laverda 750 SFC swinging-arm with disc-brake mounting and shorter Girling suspension units, smaller alternator with smaller battery both repositioned behind the cylinder block and a secondary'emergency'fuel tank in the original battery position.
40.
In August, preparations began for the Battle of Megiddo . 270 Brigade HQ commanded No . 1 RA Group, including C / 270 ( H ) Bty, while a series of battery positions were prepared and ammunition dumped ( 800 rounds per gun for 4.5-inch howitzers ).
