The Iraqis have fired some mortars in the direction of Chamchamal and some heavy machine-gun fire.

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The result was that swarms of British troops went over the top into a hail of German machine-gun fire.

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Later, US and Afghan forces said they had come under sporadic rocket and heavy machine-gun fire from insurgents dug into defensive positions in the area.

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In an attempt to pull a wounded man to safety, Dole was hit by German machine-gun fire that shattered his right shoulder and mangled his arm.

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As the ambush intensified, Sgt Meyer defied his commanding officers' orders to jump into an armoured Humvee with a fellow Marine and brave an inferno of machine-gun fire, bullets, grenades and mortars.

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The version of the Misfits' Green Hell is quite possibly the fastest song ever, with James giving even Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys fame a run for his money as the angry guitars spit out riffs like machine-gun fire.

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In conferring the medal, President Barack Obama described the conditions faced by Romesha and 52 other soldiers when they came under attack from mortar, rocket-propelled grenade, machine-gun and sniper fire on October 3, 2009, at Combat Outpost Keating in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.

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