Word: gunners
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...About this point, our left gunner said we had a fire in the wing between the engines. We prepared to bail out, but then we decided to ride it out for a while. All the time we were headed for our secondary target, the marshaling yards at Sariwon. You know, you're up there in a million-dollar airplane. Damn it, you've got to bomb...
Machine Gun: a .60-cal., air-cooled weapon with the highest muzzle velocity of any gun of its type. It can be electrically fired by remote control, thus giving the gunner the advantage of a sheltered firing position when the muzzle blast discloses the position of his gun. Another distinctive feature: the barrel can be unscrewed and replaced by a 20-mm. barrel...
...Yalu River. And they were likely to cover anything from the use of tactical aircraft to the problems of the individual footslogger. In the evacuation of Hungnam, Lowe came out in the last wave. There he saw a soldier accidentally shot in the foot by a careless machine gunner. Aware that the G.I. might be accused of shooting himself in the classic method of avoiding combat, General Lowe bustled up. "My name is Frank Lowe," said he. "If anybody ever questions your story of how you got shot, tell him General Lowe saw it and go ask him what happened...
...automatic pistol at him. It went off-just as Birdzell jumped, clawing for his own revolver. The guard bolted instinctively for the street-partly to draw the gunman's fire away from the President's quarters, partly to leave a clear field for the Tommy gunner behind the door. Then hell's own corn popper began to grind in front of Blair-Lee House...
...Baker's wake the main body of the Eighth Army thrust into the enemy's southwestern army. For many a G.I. the road back meant a settling of old scores. A tank gunner moving up to Taejon, where the 24th U.S. Division had fought a desperate delaying action before retreating on July 21, sang...