Supporting Fire

Definition: Supporting Fire

1. Fire delivered by supporting units to protect or assist a unit in combat.

English words defined with "supporting fire": direct supporting fire. (references)

Photo Album: Supporting Fire

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 41, showing Rattlesnake burning after being shelled by the monitor USS Montauk, commanded by Captain John L. Worden, USN, in the Ogeechee River, Georgia on 28 February 1863. Fort McAllister is in the right-center background, and the U.S. Navy gunboats Wissahickon, Seneca and Dawn are providing supporting fire in the left distance. Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions: Supporting Fire

Expressions using "supporting fire": close supporting fire ♦ deep supporting fire ♦ direct supporting fire. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Supporting Fire

Language		Translations for "supporting fire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		támogató tûz (defensive fire). (various references)

Pig Latin		upportingsay irefay

Turkish		destek ateşi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Supporting Fire

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-g-i-i-n-o-p-p-r-r-s-t-u"
	-3 letters: resprouting, superprofit.
	-4 letters: fingerpost, fingertips, intergroup, intriguers, irruptions, perspiring, presifting, presorting, prospering, purporting, repositing, roistering, stoppering, supporting, surfeiting, upstirring.
	-5 letters: eruptions, estopping, ferritins, figurines, fingertip, fioriture, foresting, fostering, fringiest, frontiers, fruitions, grippiest, inferiors, interiors, intriguer, intrigues, introfies, irrupting, irruption, notifiers, oppugners, outfiring, peignoirs, perfusing, perfusion, pinstripe, poetising, portering, posturing, prefiring, preprints, priesting, profiters.
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