artilleryman
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In 1918, from the trenches on the Macedonian front, a 31-year-old German artilleryman sent his mother postcards covered in fragments of a philosophical system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Their oldest brother, Rudy, was also a Vietnam War veteran, an artilleryman.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2023
Mr. Peskov’s remarks came after Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the leader of Russia’s Wagner private military company, said on Saturday that the spokesman’s son had served as an artilleryman with his mercenary group for six months.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
Wagner’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said Dmitry Peskov had approached him and asked him to take his son on as an artilleryman.
From Reuters ● Apr. 23, 2023
Then all becomes quiet in the big room—only the candles flickering from the necks of a couple of bottles and the artilleryman spitting every now and then.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
A crackling sound on the radio sends instructions to artillerymen waiting inside a US-made M-109 Paladin howitzer.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
The artillerymen moved quickly to load their gun, toiling in the heat of a sunny June day.
From Reuters ● Jun. 19, 2023
He quickly rose through the ranks to become an “artificer” — a special rank reserved for expert artillerymen — with Company H of the 1st Artillery Regiment at Fort Independence in Massachusetts.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023
If, that is, the artillerymen hear the safe word.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 26, 2017
Forced to abandon their gunboats, the sailors became artillerymen manning the defenses on land at Bladensburg.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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