bombardier
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Air Force tasked Edward Ruppelt, a wartime bombardier, with gathering and analyzing pilots’ reports for a program called Project Blue Book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Mr Cattini landed on Gold Beach on D-Day as a bombardier in the 86th Field Regiment of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry.
From BBC ● May 19, 2023
His bombardier and first real friend in the service, Danny Shapiro, was later shot down on another plane and held as a prisoner of war for a year.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
Mr. Pedevillano was born in Bayonne, N.J., and was a B-17 bombardier when he parachuted to safety from his burning plane on April 24, 1944.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2020
And to prove to Yossarian that they bore him no animosity, they even assigned him to fly lead bombardier with McWatt in the first formation when they went back to Bologna the next day.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
