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

"I tried using the time constructively," Mr Devonport, who served as a Chieftain gunner in the First Royal Tank Regiment, said.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 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

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

Serving as engineer and top turret gunner would be twenty-two-year-old Stanley Pillsbury, who’d been running his family’s Maine farm before joining up.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand