gunner

Example Sentences

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"The others had half wings – one was an observer and the other a rear gunner."

From BBC • May 5, 2025

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

Mr Dennett, a Navy gunner from Wallesey, Merseyside, told the King how he was "grateful" to be alive after so many young men died fighting during the war.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2024

Valery Shyrokov, 47, an infantryman and mortar gunner who volunteered in 2022 and served, among other places, in the bloody battle for Bakhmut, uses the word “disappointed,” but his manner suggests something far stronger.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 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