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

Shelley was a seaman gunner on the destroyer HMS Milne on D-Day and guarded troops going ashore during the Normandy landings in June 1944.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

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

Not far away on the floor lay the small tail gunner in a dead faint.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller