How To Use gun emplacement In A Sentence
- A plane table survey, using a mekometer to measure one's base, is pretty easily made to get position of kopjes, trenches, well-defined gun emplacements and their ranges, roughly, but it wants a certain amount of time to do it. With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service
- There were no guerrilla lines, no trenches, no command post, no sandbagged gun emplacements. SNOWLINE
- Although already wounded, he left the comparative safety of his position and made a daring charge against the machine-gun emplacement.
- In one corner was the picturesque Fosse Labarre, a wide horseshoe moat enclosing a little garden, now a machine-gun emplacement, where grew the cumfrey, teazle and yellow flag. The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.)
- Meanwhile, small groups of airborne troops destroyed bridges and gun emplacements, and captured crossroads and routes inland.
- Unit members claim that a man strolling up to the gun emplacement, spotted their observation post and ‘went for his weapon’.
- The terrain was such that you couldn't sneak up to the machine gun emplacement without being seen.
- The whole line was stellated with concrete machine-gun emplacements, which gave a perfect command over the former British front line trenches. The Story of the "9th King's" in France
- The national guard was called in and set up sandbagged machine gun emplacements downtown.
- One man, believed to be a security guard, was airlifted from the scene and taken to Ipswich Hospital with smoke inhalation but no one else was on the Second World War gun emplacement. Boing Boing