As General Hamilton himself admitted, "Working out my ammunition allowance, I found I would accumulate just enough high-explosive shell to enable me to deliver one serious attack each period of three weeks.
Monitors, battleships, and destroyers covered the hills of these positions with high-explosive shell, the searchlights blazing white patches on the ridges from 3.
However, it did not take the Turks long to bring gun fire on these advanced troops, and high-explosive shell burst in the shallow trenches.
In the case of the high- explosive shell, the concussion of the burst is highly dangerous, quite apart from the actual distribution of the fragments of the shell.
Ammonal is also used in high-explosive shell, but owing to its light density it is not in great favour.
Picric acid in some form or other is used in nearly all countries for filling high-explosive shell.
Had it been a high-explosive shell, it would have blown him to atoms; had the shell been filled with gas, he would have been poisoned before he had time to put on his mask.
He had fought out his battle with himself, by himself, alone in the woods by the river, his teacher a high-explosive shell.
Prior to our entry into the war the Ordnance Department had depended upon ammonium picrate, known in the Army vernacular as explosive "D," as a bursting charge for our high-explosive shell.
The task had to be done under fire of heavy guns with high-explosive shell, and it was a fine piece of work.
I was always a strong advocate for the supply of high-explosive shell to our horse and field artillery, but I got very little support, and even such as was given to me was lukewarm in the extreme.
Hun captains when a big high-explosive shell scored a direct hit on the building.
When the barrage fell, Lieutenant Muckel was thrown twenty-five feet by the explosion of a high-explosive shell, and landed plump in the mangled remains of two horses.
There were few casualties and the officers were just beginning to congratulate themselves on having chosen a fortunate position for their rest when a large high-explosive shell landed on the edge of the bank directly above Company A.
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