gunner
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She had already begun a budding romance with Ron, an RAF gunner, but believed she had been rejected when his letters went unanswered.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024
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
Donald became a gunner in the Middlesex Regiment.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024
On June 2, 1943, in back-to-back missions, Zhenya Timofeyeva led a formation of nine Pe-2 dive-bombers, each with its aircrew of pilot, navigator, and gunner, into combat toward the front line at the Kuban River.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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
The Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run ride requires riders taking up different roles, with two gunners, engineers and a pair of pilots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2024
Some Ukrainian gunners have told reporters they were only allowed to fire three shells per night.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2024
Other machines can transport artillery shells to gunners.
From Reuters ● Jul. 13, 2023
When Yossarian plugged his headset into one of the auxiliary jackboxes, the two gunners in the rear section of the plane were both singing “La Cucaracha.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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