Quotes About Salvo

Lieutenant Commander William Sowden Sims brought about a complete revolution in United States naval gunnery, and from the outset was a powerful advocate of the all-big-gun battleship, with its advantage of uniform shell splash for long-range salvo spotting.

Pyongyang possesses thousands of artillery pieces 30 miles from Seoul. Just one retaliatory salvo could decimate South Korea's capital.

la historia de la Creación, de cómo la culebra Cai-Cai alborotaba el mar y las olas amenazaban con tragarse a los mapuche, pero entonces la culebra Treng-Treng los salvó, llevándolos a la cima de los cerros más altos, que hizo crecer y crecer. Y caía lluvia en tal abundancia, que quienes no alcanzaron a subir a los cerros perecieron en el diluvio.

That split second an invisible battery opened up with a salvo. Patton had to raise his voice to a still higher pitch, as he exclaimed, "Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, how I love it!

The after turret, with no such restraints, kept firing, however, and as it trained straight aft the wash of fire from her barrels set fire to her two floatplanes, fantail-mounted on catapults. The small bonfires raged briefly before the next salvo blew them right off the ship.

she surrenders her bulk to the wicker armchair, which, out of sheer fright, bursts into a salvo of crackling.