A concrete gun emplacement, built during World War 11 just near this tomb, is still visible.
Classification kept as a machine-gun emplacement, June 7 1941.
He heard the distant movement as attackers neared, the adjustment of the men's emplacement, even the loading of arrows and stretching of bows.
If you put a machine-gun emplacement anywhere in Mosul, for instance, it will be next to antiquities.
Looking at the emplacement today, you would wonder why have an emplacement here in the first place?
Minor improvements in tangent sights certainly were made, notably an automatic clamp, but quadrant elevation was mainly used, and in the case of guns equipped with position-finders (see Range-Finder) the guns could be layed for direction by means, of a graduated arc on the emplacement and a pointer on the mounting.
Not the least extraordinary feature of the battle that followed is the part played by a sangar of stones at the head of Quarry Ravine and a small battery, called the Sandbag Battery, made as a temporary emplacement for two heavy guns a few days before.
The camp had been built in the 1930s and extended in the 40s to incorporate an antiaircraft gun emplacement.
There is an air raid shelter under the ramp in case enemy bombers attacked the emplacement.
This photograph shows an emplacement for an antiaircraft gun.