gunner

Example Sentences

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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

Mr Morris joined the Army at the age of 17 and during the war served as an anti-aircraft gunner in the Royal Artillery.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 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

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

Ishmael ate a last meal on the Heywood’s messing deck with Ernest Testa- verde, a boy he liked, an antitank gunner from Delaware.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson