11. With a proper barrage program and fuze setting, timed shrapnel creeping barrage was considered optimal. 12. The two following battalions creeping barrage . 13. The artillery batteries gradually shortened their range until they reached the start line for the creeping barrage . 14. When the creeping barrage began, the troops who had arrived spread out and followed the barrage. 15. The artillery plan had the first belt of creeping barrage beginning beyond the jumping-off tapes. 16. The creeping barrage demonstrated its effectiveness a year later, in 1917, during the battle of Arras. 17. The infantry advanced behind a creeping barrage over no man's land, which was about wide. 18. His unit was advancing under cover of a creeping barrage but was held up by German machine gun posts. 19. All of the XV Corps divisions attacked at and on the 14th Division front the creeping barrage was poor. 20. When H-Hour came, a powerful creeping barrage supported two companies of the Royal Canadian Regiment eastward.
