Troops of Reserve Infantry Regiment 109 ( RIR 109 ) and Infantry Regiment 23 ( IR 23 ) had garrisoned the area but on the day, most prisoners were from Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 6 ( BRIR 6 ), due to the number of casualties inflicted by the preparatory bombardment.
32.
Intelligence suggested that the defenses on Eniwetok Island would be heavier than planned, though there was a comparatively heavy preparatory bombardment before the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 106th Infantry Regiment went ashore at 09 : 16 on 19 February, followed by the 3 / 22 at 14 : 25.
33.
The French attacked again on 17 and from 23 March 6 April and then on 26 March, after a preparatory bombardment, the 152nd Regiment captured the summit of Hartmannswillerkopf in ten minutes, taking 400 prisoners and finding that the ground had been stripped of trees by the artillery exchanges.
34.
At 4 pm on 10 February, after three hours of preparatory bombardment by the Utah battery of the 6th Artillery and naval gunfire from the " USS Monadnock ", MacArthur's 1st Brigade under General Harrison G . Otis began the ground attack and overwhelmed the defending Filipino forces.
35.
Infantry Regiment 180, which held the Salient and the ground as far south as the Albert Bapaume road, had during the preparatory bombardment and on the right flank, the 3rd Company reported that British troops had got into sectors C8 and C9 in the Reserve Infantry Regiment 99 area just to the north.
36.
During the first attack, the 28th suffered heavily when they were committed to a night-time attack on the heights that got held up in heavy wire entanglements that the preparatory bombardment had failed to destroy; the battalion's losses were the heaviest in the 7th Brigade, amounting to 10 officers and 360 other ranks.
37.
Amendments to " Note 5779 " were suggested, to cover items like the use of grenades in two days by the 53rd Division and the importance of attention to detail; P�tain of XXXIII Corps had ensured accurate preparatory bombardments and the tactical reflections written by P�tain were added to the thinking in " Note 5779 ".
38.
She returned to Kwajalein on 8 June, where she joined a group of escort carriers for the invasion of the Mariana Islands . " Idaho " began the preparatory bombardment of Saipan on 14 June, with the assault taking place the following day . " Idaho " then shifted to Guam, where she shelled Japanese positions.
39.
The 140th Brigade with four tanks attached, was to occupy White Ch�teau and the adjacent part of, while the 142nd Brigade attacked the spoil heaps and the canal bank to the left . On 1 June, the British artillery began the intense stage of preparatory bombardment for trench-destruction and wire cutting and the two attacking brigades assembled for the attack from June.
40.
On the 21st, lookouts in the ship sighted starshell and heard the sound of heavy gunfire from Saipan-probably the mopping-up operations by the American forces ashore, since organized Japanese resistance on Saipan had ceased on the 9th . " William Ward Burrows " passed near Tinian on the 22d, observing from close-hand the preparatory bombardments paving the way for the landing of Major General Harry Schmidt's marines that would follow two days later.
