Word: gunners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambushers personally. During the melee he was fatally wounded and died before he could be removed from the scene. His body was taken to Shanakil Hospital and a guard placed around it. It afterwards came to light that he was killed by his own armored car machine gunner, a man named McPike who was a native of Scotland. . . . DERMOT K. FOLEY Bakersfield, Calif...
...make a desperate effort to break Japan's blockade of her coast. Still another fleet of twelve Chinese bombers formed themselves into a ''suicide squad" sworn to destroy the recently established Japanese naval base at Pratus Shoals, 200 mi. southeast of Hong Kong. Each pilot, gunner and observer was insured for $10,000, the policies payable to the flyers' families. Off to an unknown base in southern China they flew. By week's end no word of their mission had been received...
...scandalized, sullenly consented to a religious service for his charges only because the sheriff commanded him to in writing. When Bishop William White and Dr. William Rogers arrived at the jail, they found a number of convicts huddled before an improvised pulpit, beside which stood a formidable cannon whose gunner had lighted a taper, ready to fire at the slightest sign of trouble...
Paul Muni plays the role of an infantry officer turned aviator, but after losing several partners in battle he falls victim to the distrust of his squadron mates, who believe him jinxed. Louis Hayward, a fellow officer, strikes up a friendship with him and makes his machine gunner in several brilliant air-raids. Meanwhile, in Paris and at camp, Hayward has fallen in love with Miriam Hopkins, Muni's wife, and this time it's no design for living. A situation that sacrifices the friendship of the two men on the altar of a woman's love can only result...
...waters of the Pacific rolled blue and calm one day last week as a gunner aboard the U. S. S. Wyoming, engaged in war games off San Clemente Island, took his ramrod to seat a shell in the breech of a 5-in. gun which was participating in a barrage to cover a landing party of Marines. The gunner's thrust was his last. As he shoved home the shell, up with a roar went the breech in a great red flare of flame and blood against the blue. "I saw one boy sort of drift past me," recounted...