gunner
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In another, she wrote: "My Harvey, life is never gunner be the same. Love you so much."
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2025
But Almonds got the aircraft's gunner and it flew off.
From BBC ● Jan. 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
Evans could swing his little sixteen-inch telescope around like a tail gunner in a dogfight, spending no more than a couple of seconds on any particular point in the sky.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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
Some Ukrainian gunners have told reporters they were only allowed to fire three shells per night.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2024
One of the gunners pushes a projectile into the barrel.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
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
Sure enough, from the dark sky came a yellow flare, a signal from the German plane to let the gunners on the ground know he was up there.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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