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Along with the greater ability of gunfire to penetrate plate armour, it was the long training needed by longbowmen which eventually led to their being replaced by musketmen.
Combined with poor weather, this meant that 56 of the boats sank before reaching the designated scuttling areas and those which did were generally sunk by gunfire rather than explosive charges.
When the fighting broke out around 3: 00 PM the German position was immediately surrounded by gunfire, which Stark described as " the hottest engagement I have ever witnessed, resembling a continual clap of thunder.
In cases in which police were injured by axes and gunfire, Streeter and his men were invariably found not guilty due to acting in self-defense.
He built a device based on an internal combustion engine to simulate gunfire, which was safer and less expensive than firing blanks.
Kenneth P. Lord, a U. S. Army planner for the D-Day invasion, says that, upon hearing the naval gunfire support plan for Omaha Beach, which limited support to one battleship, two cruisers and six destroyers, he and other planners were very upset — especially in light of the tremendous naval gunfire support given to landings in the Pacific.
Sinking even lower, he now finds himself living in an overcrowded subterranean hovel, which becomes a scene of chaos and bloodshed when it is attacked with gunfire by authorities purportedly searching for anarchists and revolutionaries.
The incomplete French battleship — which was docked and immobile — fired on the landing force with her one working gun turret until disabled by American gunfire.
" Wayne asks amid the gunfire, to which Colorado replies: " Maybe the girl with another flower pot.
On his return to Saint-Germain, on 30 June, Rundstedt found an urgent plea from Schweppenburg, who was commanding the armoured forced at Caen, to be allowed to withdraw his units out of range of Allied naval gunfire, which was decimating his forces.
Fortunately for the British, the Germans were surprised by gunfire from an unexpected source: Canopus, which had been grounded as a guardship and was behind a hill.
On one occasion, the gunner of a B-29 aircraft managed to hit one with gunfire, causing it to break up into several large pieces which fell on buildings below and set them on fire.
In the scene in which the cops " investigate " Mike's gunfire, they could walk only a few feet forward, because there was not enough light to illuminate the scenery for a panning shot, creating the unintentionally amusing impression that the officers hear the gunfire, step out of their car, consider investigating but then give up and leave before making a proper check of the scene.
They ignored the warnings, the march began, and gunfire resulted in which a number of police and demonstrators were killed.
The Punisher has a Kevlar uniform which protects him from most gunfire, though he can still suffer concussive injury or penetration from sufficient or repeated impacts.
The attack was beaten back by Turkish gunfire which destroyed one torpedo boat and the remaining boats withdrew, leaving the enemy ironclads intact.
Lovejoy and his supporters exchanged gunfire with the mob, which fatally shot him.
The Japanese destroyer Oboro made the last attack, around 0200, by which time the Russians were fully awake, and their searchlights and gunfire made accurate and close range torpedo attacks impossible.
One man, witnessing the gangster battles, hurries over to the nearest telephone booth and orders the operator to connect him to the police, but the dim witted operator takes so long to make the connection that the gangsters ' gunfire shoots the telephone booth and man in half, to which the operator says " Sorry!
The Indians and the soldiers exchanged sporadic gunfire through the night until about 10: 00 in the morning, after which the Nez Perce moved off up Cow Creek.
Next the garrison came under naval gunfire which inflicted some casualties, followed by a second attack on a wider front.
The clips used were from the scene showing the FBI raid on Myerson's country house, which was heavily damaged by gunfire.

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What else he said was lost in the rattle of gunfire on all sides.
And now the redcoats were coming, and the gunfire was a part of the dust cloud on the road to the west of us.
There was a clump of trees that appeared to provide cover right up to the road, and the shouting and gunfire never slackened.
U-41 was in the process of sinking SS Urbino with gunfire when Baralong arrived on the scene, flying an American flag.
No British soldier was wounded by gunfire or reported any injuries, nor were any bullets or nail bombs recovered to back up their claims.
At the same time, with the underground network of Montoneros militants largely uprooted in the capital of Tucumán province, several hundred ERP militants took the streets in the Argentine city of Córdoba in the last week of August 1975, in an effort to divert attention from the military operations being waged in the jungles and mountains of Tucumán and five policemen were killed as a result, after the police headquarters was attacked with gunfire and the police radio communications center bombed.
A German policeman in the control tower, Anton Fliegerbauer, was killed by the gunfire.
In the case of those submarines not being used as targets the plan was to sink them via explosive charges with naval gunfire as a fall-back option if that failed.
After a protest march on June 28 was fired on, crowds attacked the communist party and secret police headquarters, where they were repulsed by gunfire.
That first shot may have been accidental, or meant as a warning shot ; it was a catalyst for an exchange of gunfire.
The wagon was given slits for archers to shoot enemy targets, supported by infantry using pikes and flails and later for the invention of gunfire by hand-gunners ; side walls were use for protection against archers, crossbowmen, the early use of gunpowder and cannon fire.
Some evidence of medical training can be derived from one account, where an Iga ninja provided first-aid to Ii Naomasa, who was injured by gunfire in the Battle of Sekigahara.
He was disturbed while writing it in June 1667 by the sound of gunfire as Dutch warships broke through the Royal Navy on the Thames.
At exactly 12: 45 pm Tuesday, Andropov's coffin was lowered into the ground as foghorns blared, joining with sirens, wheezing factory whistles and rolling gunfire in a mournful cacophony.
There was, actually, no exchange of gunfire from both sides.
He was concerned in an " E " boat action, when one was successfully destroyed by ramming, and his ship and another destroyed two others by gunfire.
Depth charges of the time were relatively primitive, and almost the only chance of sinking a submarine was by gunfire or by ramming while on the surface.
Most people did not know where Bryant was because the gunfire was extremely loud and difficult to pinpoint.
On 11 February 2008, national television reported that the motorcade of Gusmão had come under gunfire one hour after President José Ramos-Horta was shot in the stomach ; according to the Associated Press, the two incidents raised the possibility of a coup attempt ; they have also described as possible assassination attempts < ref name = " Rudd-Timor ">

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