Word: gunners
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About five miles north of Osan, enemy antitank fire sheared off the mount of the .50-caliber machine gun on Baker's No. 3 tank. The gunner's head was sheared...
...Heads Down!" "Get 'em ready, gunner," said Captain Jaskilka to Gunnery Sergeant Barnett. His voice was very quiet and calm. Ahead we could see the first and second waves dashing for that forbidding sea wall...
...Powell, an aerial gunner who was wounded seriously by German flak in World War II, came back home to serve as $10,000-a-year aide to New Hampshire's senior Senator, Styles Bridges, who is no friend of Tobey's. Last November, Republican Powell announced he was out to beat Tobey. He set up campaign headquarters in the pantry of his Hampton Falls home. He had the encouragement and the help of Styles Bridges' compact New Hampshire political organization...
...World War II." It is powerful only if a mixture of bitterness and resentment can be called power, and it is not so much a novel as one grouser's-eye view of the war in the air. The author is First Novelist Louis Falstein, a gunner who completed his 50 missions, won the Air Medal and added a couple of clusters to it. His hero and narrator is Gunner Ben Isaacs, a congenital soul searcher, as much at war with his neurotic self as with Nazi Germany...
When Ben's B-24 crew arrived in Italy, he was 34, small, thin-fingered and a wearer of glasses. He knew himself to be only a fifth-rate gunner, and because he was a Jew, he felt that the rest of the boys had never accepted him. At 15, he had come from the Ukraine, where he had seen pogroms with his own eyes. Ben had become a gunner because he hated Hitler and understood the necessity for defeating him. He was nonetheless scared to death of combat-and honest enough to admit that, while it had been...