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Sentence Examples Gunner Palace is a fine piece of filmmaking and a fine piece of journalism, and I highly recommend it. Gunner Karl Whitaker and craftsman Neil Vance used to fantasise about snow during their six-month tour. The date is March of this year and Carrie Ford has the most realistic chance handed to a woman of winning the Grand National aboard Forest Gunner. Colt, Remington, and Gauge have all soared, and Gunner is much more common than the traditional name Gunnar. In 1971 Larkin regained contact with his schoolfriend Colin Gunner, who had led a picaresque life. Some sources say that he asked the Master Gunner, who also served as the unit's barber, for a shave. By Needle Gun, out of Miss Millbrook, Blandfords Gunner, was bred by David Brace OBE at the Dunraven Stud at Pyle near Bridgend in South Wales. The ship's Gunner was informed, who in turn informed the captain. York Rite has been largely consistent and could be up to winning a modest chase, but the rest make limited appeal and Polar Gunner looks the most likely. The gunner then ranges the target, decides the round, and communicates this to the loader. The aircraft commander alerted the crew for possible bail out but did not get a response from the tail gunner. The embedded ballistics of the FCS ballistic computer gives the gunner range and accuracy. Effective marksmanship in the mechanized divisions was attributed to a master gunner program. My tail gunner called out another two bandits coming in again in trail from the low six o'clock position. In each three-man team, the gunner carries the launcher and tripod as a backpack, and the two bearers each carry two launch tubes as backpacks. As we watched, a gunner fired again and red tracer bullets made their way slowly towards us across the river. In addition the gunner's primary sight is slaved to the main gun, which does not allow the gunner to acquire targets in a hull-down posture. The commander has the option of handing off the target to the gunner or of slaving the gun to the commander's sight and initiating the fire. McVeigh served as a gunner on a Bradley fighting vehicle during the 1991 Gulf War, receiving the Bronze Star and several other medals. The fire control system is automatic with manual override for both gunner and commander. Show More Sentences The crew consists of commander, gunner, driver, and four infantrymen, with the commander normally dismounting with the squad. The tail gunner sustained a serious wound to the knee from a piece of flak that had come from underneath. After firing the missile, the gunner must keep the cross hairs of the sight centered on the target to ensure a hit. The gunner never had a chance as the whole empennage of the aircraft had separated resulting in the bomber spinning out of control. Because of his blazing speed, Foster also will be used as a gunner on special-teams coverages. At the age of 16 he was called up for war service as an anti-aircraft gunner and was taken prisoner. He was a gunner and wireless operator in the 18th Armoured Regiment in Sherman Tanks. The gunner can operate either from within the vehicle or from a remote position up to 80 meters away. Cramped in the tank for 36 hours at a time, he and a gunner, radio operator and Commander helped to hold a bridge outside the town. For Gray, Kate Buckingham said he had won commendations during his long service in the Army as a gunner. A British gunner died after his light armoured vehicle slid down a crumbling bank and overturned. Stuart Mason, 19, was due to fly out to Iraq next month to help the allied security forces as a gunner with the Territorial Army. Tom Dwyer, a gunner in the army, remembers driving onto Sword beach, on WW2 People's War. He flew 27 missions as a gunner on board Lancaster bombers before being selected in March 1943 for the now legendary 617 Squadron. His medical studies were interrupted by the second world war, during which he was a rear gunner on Lancaster bombers. But the 17th mission proved to be the last the gunner and his 10 fellow crew members would fly. He crawled back into the Mitchell and found the badly-injured turret gunner still inside. The tail gunner rotated the turret and opened fire on a dark shape less than 300 yards out. Reg was the rear gunner in a Wellington bomber when it crashed while returning from a bombing mission in France. Even though the ball turret gunner forgot to level his guns, we crash landed with out incident. Show More Sentences The pilot, navigator, and the gunner lived in three entirely separate social worlds. He flew 56 dangerous missions over Germany as a rear gunner on a Lancaster bomber. The visibility was limited for this gun and the top turret gunner provided adequate coverage of that area anyway. There are several roles players can take on such as a fighter pilot, turret gunner, bomber, ship captain and base defender to name a few. Eric saw action in the Second World War as a ship's gunner in Burma, Malaya and the Middle East, before returning to the market. A Royal Navy gunner remembers action on board HMS Ramillies on WW2 People's War. And, for the avid rooster hunting gunner, there's really only one breed to consider. The gunner virtually always sees the target directly through the gunsight or other sighting devices. He previously served as a mechanized rifle company master gunner, drill sergeant, and Bradley fighting vehicle instructor. Linaps provides the gunner with the position of the gun and the exact bearing and elevation of the barrel. The imposition of radio silence during such missions made me more of a gunner than a radioman. Still painfully wounded, he helped the tail gunner out to the wing of the aircraft so the other crewmembers could help them onto a waiting boat. We had just recrossed the Rhine when our tail gunner shouted the alarm over the intercom. Both gunner and commander are able to fire the gun and select the type of ammunition to be fired. This, of course, was almost as hazardous to the pilot as to the enemy aircraft, with bullets sometimes ricocheting back at the gunner. Driven reticles confirm the missile seeker is locked on to the same target the gunner is tracking. During the second world war he served as a gunner in the South African artillery throughout the Italian campaign. Since the tail gunner could not possibly survive bailing out, I asked him to crash land if he could. About the same time, the tail gunner calmly reported that he had been hit. A machine gunner atop a Humvee kept his weapon trained on the truck and watched through binoculars as it came to a halt and troops frisked the driver and a companion. Show More Sentences The gunner has merely to keep the target in his sights to hit it. Meanwhile, Doug Sample, a Canadian veteran of the war, who served as a gunner in Halifax bombers of the Canadian 415 Squadron, has made his 20th visit to York. Their lengthened nacelles overlapped the leading edge of the wing and were equipped with a streamlined canopy and cabin in which a single gunner was installed. My boyhood dream was to be a tail gunner in the Royal Air Force. A sergeant then, he was Yellow Oboe's armorer and ball turret gunner. My top turret gunner tracked him and kept firing until he saw him smoking, then bursting into flames and spinning toward the earth and then crashing. He sailed to France with thousands of other young squaddies and was transferred to the Manchester Regiment to replace another gunner who had been shot dead. After Fallujah, Marine gunner Roman Baca writes about how he found his way back to the world of dance. The force of the blast flipped the vehicle and knocked me, my gunner, and my driver unconscious. A glassed-in tail gunner compartment is to the rear of the tail. The father was a 'Tail-End Charlie' or rear gunner in a Lancaster Bomber. Either the gunner or the commander operates the turret control system. The pilot and gunner cockpits are in a stepped tandem configuration. Within three minutes, those of her 48 crew and the ship's gunner who had not managed to get into the lifeboats were in the water and swimming to them. The internal armament of the helicopter comprises a pintle mounted 7.62 mm machine gun and a door gunner post for a 12.7mm general purpose machine gun. Janey, a retired weaver, said John, who served in the Territorial Army as a gunner in the Second World War, would be looking down on the thieves in disgust. All personnel are assigned a sector of observation and fire, with the lead automatic weapon gunner maintaining special emphasis on road medians or emergency lanes. Gunports were keyhole shaped, with a circular hole at the bottom for the weapon and a narrow slit on top to allow the gunner to aim. The ranks of private, used by the RMLI, and gunner, used by the RMA, were abolished and replaced by the rank of Marine. During repeated firing, guns could become clogged and explode, which could be dangerous to the gunner and those around him. Show More Sentences So my gunner tried to shoot near him to scare him but missed and hit him. At 1057 we were just over the islands and at 1100 the tail gunner reported flak at six o'clock, below. A hook on the end of the gun could be latched over the timber so the gunner did not have to take the full recoil of the weapon. He re-enlisted with his old regiment, the East Kent and served as a gunner. Gary, managing director of his ducting business, became a gunner and a mortar man after re-enlisting. Over the years it has been used as home to the city's gunner, the Town Gaol and even as storage for the Southampton Harbour Board. A CPP is one VGC, typically consisting of a driver, vehicle commander, and gunner. They included carpenters, calkers, a physician, a tailor, and a gunner. Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece. The gunner, with his lintstock in hand, was preparing to set to work. As progress at the siege was slow, James sent Hans the royal gunner in Robert Barton's ship and then the Earl of Arran with provisions and more artillery. Other ranks include the boatswain, master, gunner, doctor, and carpenter. Miss April, Rosie Burke, 21, of Bolton, posed in pink bunny girl ears, while her RAF gunner boyfriend George Turner, also 21, was away in Afghanistan. According to one estimate in 16th century Japan, an archer could fire 15 arrows in the time a gunner would take to load, charge, and shoot a firearm. It's always a worry, but I knew I had my gunner giving me covering fire. He was seen by an aeroplane, our Archie gunner and a whole division to crash in their lines just opposite our trenches, much jubilation and more congratulations. Where it enters the lake, a gunner can lean against the bleached skeletons of dead trees to ambush goldeneyes, redheads, canvasbacks, buffleheads and scaup. Examples from Classical Literature Gunner oke gripped the Sergeant's arm of a sudden and leaned forward, straining his ears. More food for the bull-dogs, Gunner, and plums for the Spaniards' Christmas pudding! Gunner oke shifted his seat again, and threw a nervous glance seaward. Gunner Oke had strapped an accordion on top of his knapsack. The Messerschmitt gunner would have to take care not to hit one of his own. While passing, our gunner made a shot at one of the boats that was unfired, which struck her and set her on fire. The tail gunner had his greenhouse blown into his face and is in the hospital. Some of his men were slain, while some of the survivors, especially one German gunner, mutinously held converse with the enemy. On this the gunner said he would go aft, and speak to Mr. Osgood on the subject. As he stood there deep in thought, he was joined by Hagthorpe, Wolverstone, and Ogle the gunner. Others passed, and then there came an artilleryman, a gunner of the Horse Artillery. An eager gunner endeavoured to pass one of the tanks, but his gun caught the sponson and slipped off into the mud. The Dutch gunner appeared on the forecastle of the bonito, and with him a couple of men. This gunner was a robustious Vulcan, and his engine a mighty smith's hammer. Then a sponger fell, and then the gunner himself was slain by the bullet. Then the gunner of the revenue cutter began to raise his sights. He baptised an 18-year-old gunner, from 29 Commando Regiment, Royal Artillery, in a patrol base near Nad E Ali last summer. The regular gunner had no use for Territorial horse and field artillery. Master Leigh was cursing his gunner for having aimed too high. A figure from the pages of Ovid, metamorphosed to a gunner of Santa Anna! Show More Sentences Still, one wonders just what would happen if this contrivance's gunner accidentally had a flashover from one touchhole to the next. Will any human gunner ever be able to fire an Oman projector? The gunner pulled the lanyard hard, but the tube did not explode. That supplied for the gunner and for bending light sails is untarred. If the projectile is to command the gunner, we had better ram the gunner into the gun. He becomes a seaman gunner, with the billet and pay of a petty officer. The enemy machine gunner was in a well-prepared firing point that we had not yet identified and was pinning down 30 guys with extremely accurate fire. The rifle spoke and a German machine gunner collapsed behind his weapon. During the war he served with the Royal Navy on minesweepers in the North Sea and was chief gunner on the troopships Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary in the Atlantic. Find more words! 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