Word: gunners
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...that exists, the human mind, and from there we watch protagonist Alfred F. Day struggle with the only two things perhaps equally complex, and unstintingly envisioned as such by Kennedy: war and love. Five years may have passed since World War II, but the eponymous Day, former Sergeant and gunner in Her Majesty’s Royal Air Force, relives the war day in and day out. Understanding he can never move forward until he buries the corpses littered throughout his memories, Day returns to a POW camp in Germany with the avowed intent to work as an extra...
JOEL COEN Well, I don't know about outrageous, but there was a movie we tried to make that was another adaptation. It was a novel that James Dickey wrote called To the White Sea, and it was about a tail gunner in a B-29 shot down over Tokyo...
...highly recommend the Warren Zevon song “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner...
...gunner in a scout unit, Aaron Genevie often rode through Baghdad popped up out of the top of his humvee, manning a belt-fed automatic machine gun. Gunners are the eyes and ears of the driver, constantly scanning the horizon for threats. In Baghdad's congested streets, they are also traffic cops--waving cars out of the way, shouting at drivers who get too close. That's what Genevie was doing the day he died, telling his driver to maneuver around an Iraqi national-police checkpoint when a roadside bomb went off and killed him instantly...
Next week, Specialist Mario Lozano of the New York National Guard will be tried for murder in absentia in Italy. The charge: the killing of Nicola Calipari, an Italian intelligence officer, at a Baghdad checkpoint on March 4, 2005, where Lozano was stationed as a gunner. Calipari had been escorting Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist just freed from kidnappers, taking her to the airport and onward to Italy...