They had to come out into the firing pits to use them.

Here and there among the firing pits, steps made of dirt andsandbags led up to the ground ahead.

Let's get some firing pits dug, and we'll seewhat we can do.

The large kettles held 150 gallons and were placed nearest to the firing pit.

This is because both were built over the firing pits for former brick making operations of the hacienda.

He ran toward theeven more battered firing pits and trenches ahead.

Forty artillery pieces were scattered around the island in various reinforced firing pits.

With a stone wall and concealed firing pits to aid them, the defenders fought desperately on.

There would be old trenches and foxholes and firing pits.

Bartlett leaped down into a firing pit and pointed hisrifle at an enemy.

With the pause in the naval bombardment, those Japanese that survived the shelling were again able to man their firing pits.

Each firing pit held a firer, a trainee coach, and a human or Diaspran safety coach.

It took eight to twenty hours in soft soil or gravel to excavate the large firing pit required to hold the halves of the base box.

He reentered Errolds Grove near the firing pit for pottery and the storage shed where the finished pieces were kept.

A tremendous number of pill boxes and firing pits were constructed with excellent fields of fire over the water and sandy shore.

More and more U.S. soldiers joined himin the bushes, blazing away at the Southerners in the firing pits.

A corporal in a grimy uniform waved Captain Wilcox's company into the firing pits and connecting trenchesthat made up the Confederate line.

Better yet, piles of spoil from the mine offered fine cover for the guns, and Negroes were already busy digging firing pits to protect them even better.

The canteen is close to the firing pits so that by day the noise is deafening, cups leap off the shelves and every now & then the windows break.

Martin crawled and snaked forward till he could see the earththe Confederatesor rather, their Negro laborershad thrown upin front of their firing pits.

As if thinking of him had been enough to make him appear,Captain Orville Wyatt stepped into the firing pit Martin andAndersen were sharing.

On the slopes around them other figures were rising and forming into groups while fresh six-man squads stood by with their attendant instructors, waiting their turn to move into the firing pits.

What he saw remained pretty much the same, regardless of the angle: barbed wire, some shiny and new, some rusting; firing pits for Yankee scouts; and then another trench line just like his.

As the LVTs made their way over the reef and in to the shallows, the number of Japanese troops in the firing pits slowly began to increase, and the amount of combined arms fire the LVTs faced gradually intensified.

The soldiers reinforced the base with existing terrain, sandbags, barbed wire, and used the Bobcat to fill a number of HESCO barriers (essentially wall-sized sandbags) around the three squad positions and to create a firing pit for the big 120-mm mortar.