had been strafing

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of strafe.
  strafe

  verb (used with object)

  to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.

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