21. At night, AC-47 gunships provided defensive fire . 22. An estimated reinforced battalion pressed on toward the crest until it met a circle of defensive fire . 23. A failure while attempting this was deadly, because of the concentration of defensive fire from the bombers. 24. By the mid-19th century, the replacement of muskets with rifles greatly increased the accuracy of defensive fire . 25. While the throwing off of the torpedoes, received the aircraft defensive fire and suffered some heavy hits. 26. Kuribayashi specially engineered the defenses so that every part of Iwo Jima was subject to Japanese defensive fire . 27. He took control and climbed out of the defensive fire before ordering the crew to abandon the aircraft. 28. Many calls were made to orbiting gunship aircraft, artillery units, and Fast Patrol Craft to provide defensive fire . 29. Crews complained bitterly that the lack of frontal armor made them vulnerable to defensive fire from German bombers. 30. Defensive fire tasks were registered, while additional ammunition was pushed out to the forward companies in the afternoon.
