gunner

Example Sentences

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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

Dougie Shelley joined the Royal Navy at the age of 17, serving as a seaman gunner, and said earlier this year: "There is not many of us left."

From BBC • Aug. 17, 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

The gunner survived and is now recovering, Lawyer said a few days later.

From New York Times • May 14, 2024

And Larisa Rozanova was flying with Nadezhda “Nadya” Studilina, a new navigator who’d started the war as a gunner and had recently retrained.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein