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Emplacements

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Emplacements meaning

plural of emplacement

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Sussan Ley, Minister for the Environment at North Fort - North Head Tunnel underground tunnel and gun emplacements which were instrumental in the Defence of Sydney during WWII.

In some areas, American troops were met with 100-foot bluffs covered with concrete gun emplacements that shot to the sides, rather than to the front—making them largely immune to naval fire.

Defensive gun turret emplacements Tail armament, B-29 Superfortress, Hill Aerospace Museum.

Eighteen Thor launches in support of the Program 437 Alternate Payload (AP) mission took place from Johnston Atoll's Launch emplacements.

He received a Bronze Star for interrogating captured German prisoners and learning the location of Nazi gun emplacements.

Once within artillery range, another parallel (the Second Parallel) trench would be dug with gun emplacements.

Saunders, p. 134 The North Shores and their armour support entered Tailleville at 14:00, at which point the six tanks of "C" Squadron moved through the village, destroying German gun emplacements.

Stacey, p. 108 One LCA's rudder from "B" Company had jammed, and that platoon landed far to the left of the rest of "B" Company, enabling them to outflank and destroy the gun emplacements.

Taken seriously he was allowed to bring up over 100 guns from coastal emplacements but his plan for the taking of Toulon was set aside as one incompetent officer superseded another.

The 370th later operated from Cardonville France, flying ground attack missions against gun emplacements, troops, supply dumps and tanks near Saint-Lô in July and in the Falaise – Argentan area in August 1944.

The defense was organized on three lines with emplacements consisting of trenches, AT ditches and pillboxes.

The Egyptians had four divisions in the area, backed by minefields, pillboxes, underground bunkers, hidden gun emplacements and trenches.

The player takes the role of a US Marine forced to take Peleliu Airfield, repel counter-attacks, destroy machine-gun and mortar positions and eventually secure Japanese artillery emplacements.

There are extensive remains of gun emplacements, barracks, etc. from these periods.

The strongpoint in this area consisted of three casemates and twelve machine-gun emplacements.

They acquired the Mitchell II in September 1943, performing operations over Europe against gun emplacements, railway yards, bridges, troops and other tactical targets.

Varble, Derek (2003) p. 65. The battle group standing offshore opened fire, giving covering fire for the landings and causing considerable damage to the Egyptian batteries and gun emplacements.

Zuehlke, pp. 242–3 "C" Company advanced on Banville—the headquarters of II Battalion of the 726th—but was stopped by three machine-gun emplacements just short of the town.