gunner
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Lt Gen Mike Elviss, master gunner at St James's Palace, said Sullivan was a "fine soldier" who "died doing a job she loved surrounded by people who held her in the highest regard".
From BBC ● May 18, 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
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
Tail gunner Tonya Khokhlova, of the 125th Guards, told how on one occasion some Soviet pilots flew low over their airfield and dropped an object out of their plane.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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
It would be highly unusual for tanks to be parked in the open, where they make easy targets for enemy gunners, they said.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 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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