Word: gunners
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...shot piece designed for close-range use, it is fired by dry-cell batteries, is replaced forthwith by a new barrel; the empty goes to the rear for a new loading. By a wire hookup, several M-12s can be fired at once by the same gunner...
Last week BBC's New York office notified Mrs. Raskin that her husband was about to participate in a broadcast from England. She listened in, learned more about the "safe" job of Sergeant Raskin: as a gunner in a B-17 he had flown 64 missions over Germany, had shot down three Nazi planes, won the DFC and Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters...
...GUNNER - Bud Mutton and Andy Rooney - Farrar & Rinehart...
...outfit, standing one man to every five yards, held a line 2,500 yards long in the jungles of Lunga sector, mowing down charging Japs for four frenzied hours. Puller was everywhere. All through the rain-drenched night Puller coolly kept his thin line intact. A machine gunner said afterward: "I gave thanks to God and Puller...
...hands trembled. Lieut. Preston Niland, missing since June 7 in the Normandy invasion, was only one of her soldier sons on the Army's casualty list. Still carried as missing were sons Edward (a bomber gunner in Burma) and Robert (a sergeant with the paratroopers in Normandy...