In a creeping barrage, fire moved from one line to the next.

The creeping barrage was designed to move across ground at a steady rate.

The main attack advanced in five waves, close behind a creeping barrage.

This allowed the creeping barrage to move too far ahead of the advancing troops.

This bombing was followed by a creeping barrage from the artillery.

Simultaneously, a creeping barrage would register just ahead of the British front line.

The four divisions advanced behind a creeping barrage of unprecedented weight.

As the infantry began their attack, the bombardment changed to a creeping barrage.

The enemy lines were to be paralysed by a creeping barrage lasting 100 minutes.

Under a creeping barrage, Stoßtruppen would then move forward, in dispersed order.

To protect the soldiers in their march forward to the German lines, a creeping barrage of artillery was developed.

To keep enemy action to a minimum during the assault, a "creeping barrage" was planned.

A creeping barrage by 18-pdr field guns, was to move at the same speed as that of the Second Army.

The attack continued behind a creeping barrage with Bottom Wood as the final objective.

They would advance downhill from the American-held ridge behind a creeping barrage.

A creeping barrage then allowed the Chums to make further attacks,1500 yards forward of their start positions.

The creeping barrage demonstrated its effectiveness a year later, in 1917, during the battle of Arras.

The speed of the creeping barrage had been based on the infantry crossing frozen ground and was too fast for the conditions.

The following night the battalion renewed the advance behind a creeping barrage, gaining two miles with almost no opposition.

His support included an accurate creeping barrage, the Feuerwalze, for the advancing infantry.

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Two thousand guns opened up at Zero and shepherded the tanks forward behind a creeping barrage.

If infantry caught up with the creeping barrage, they were to take cover and attack when the barrage moved forward.

When the creeping barrage began, the troops who had arrived spread out and followed the barrage.

The French infantry advanced behind an elaborate creeping barrage but the earlier zero hour meant that the attack began in the dark.