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Battle rifle: A service rifle capable of semi-automatic or fully automatic fire of a full-power rifle cartridge. Bayonet lug: An attachment point at the muzzle end of a long gun for a bayonet. Belt: An ammunition belt is a device used to retain and feed cartridges into some machine guns in place of a magazine.
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
Forlorn hope: a band of soldiers or other combatants chosen to take the leading part in a military operation, such as an assault on a defended position, where the risk of casualties is high. [2] Frontal assault or frontal attack: an attack toward the front of an enemy force. Garrison: a body of troops holding a particular location on a long ...
The Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO) are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970 by songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan. Their music is characterised by a fusion of pop and classical arrangements with futuristic iconography. [ 3] After Wood's departure in 1972, Lynne became the band's ...
Beat the Band (1940–1941, 1943–1944) Beat the Clock (1950–1961, 1969–1974, 1979–1980, 2002–2003) Beat the Geeks (2001–2002) Beat the Odds (1968–1969; also an unsold 1975 pilot hosted by Chuck Henry) Ben Bernie's Musical Quiz (1938–1940) The Better Half (1942–1950) The Better Sex (1977–1978) Bid 'N' Buy (1958) Big Fan (2017 ...
This is a list of commercially released songs by the English boy band Take That, details of remixes and 'concert only' tracks can be found later in the article. There are currently 139 Take That songs that have been commercially released as studio recordings, including 16 from their latest album Wonderland. All are listed below. Take That are a multi-award-winning British Pop band Songs on ...
The run of D-Day codewords as The Daily Telegraph crossword solutions continued: 2 May 1944: 'Utah' (17 across, clued as "One of the U.S."): code name for the D-Day beach assigned to the US 4th Infantry Division . This would have been treated as another coincidence.
Catatonia were an alternative rock band from Wales who gained popularity in the mid-to-late 1990s. The band formed in 1992 after Mark Roberts met Cerys Matthews and Kirsty Kennedy. The first major lineup featured Dafydd Ieuan of Super Furry Animals on drums, Paul Jones on bass, and Clancy Pegg on keyboards. With this line-up the band recorded ...