gunner

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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

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

Mr Dennett, a Navy gunner from Wallesey, Merseyside, told the King how he was "grateful" to be alive after so many young men died fighting during the war.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2024

And Larisa Rozanova was flying with Nadezhda “Nadya” Studilina, a new navigator who’d started the war as a gunner and had recently retrained.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein