Barrage (artillery)
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In military usage, a barrage is massed sustained artillery fire aimed at a series of points along a line. In addition to attacking any enemy in the kill zone, a barrage intends to suppress enemy movem
A German artillery barrage falling on Allied trenches at Ypres, probably during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915, during the First World War.
German Trommelfeuer on the Chemin des Dames (31 July 1917)
Men of the Australian Heavy Artillery capping 8-inch (200 mm) shells with '106' (instantaneous) fuzes.
British 4.5 inch gun in action near Tilly-sur-Seulles during the Battle of Normandy, 1944.
Battle of Messines (1917)
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The Battle of Messines was an attack by the British Second Army, on the Western Front, near the village of Messines in West Flanders, Belgium, during the First World War. The Nivelle Offensive in Apri
Barrage (artillery)
…behind it, or to catch up, or perhaps it would stand on the line of known enemy defences, to do more damage and sap enemy morale. The fireplan for the Battle of Messines on 7 June 1917 called for most of the British 18-pounder field guns to fire a creeping barrage of shrapnel immediately ahead of the advance, while the…
Messines–Wytschaete area, 1917
Messines Ridge from Hill 63, George Edmund Butler
A howitzer firing during the battle
A view of Mesen from south-west of Wytschaete (Wijtschate) in 2007.