gunner
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Shelley was a seaman gunner on the destroyer HMS Milne on D-Day and guarded troops going ashore during the Normandy landings in June 1944.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
Mr Morris joined the Army at the age of 17 and during the war served as an anti-aircraft gunner in the Royal Artillery.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025
Although more accustomed to playing out wide as a gunner, he didn’t blink at lining up at a position more often occupied by bigger linebackers, or sometimes even linemen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
Eighth Air Force and served as a radio gunner on a B-17, the massive bomber known as the Flying Fortress.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
“We realized the importance of saving Paris,” gunner William Maher of the U.S. artillery said later, “and the Allied army was at stake too.”
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Russian businesses are leasing air-defense systems, building their own and hiring gunners to shoot down incoming drones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The teenagers are just a few years younger than the pilots, navigators, air gunners, and wireless operators whose names and ages are recorded on the headstones.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2024
Some Ukrainian gunners have told reporters they were only allowed to fire three shells per night.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2024
The Steelers twice failed to pin the Bengals deep in their own end in the first half when the gunners couldn’t down the ball before it reached the end zone.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2023
He fed the radar information about incoming Allied planes to the gunners.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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