Sentence examples for air gunner from inspiring English sources

He served in the RAF during the war and saw action as an air gunner in the far east.

During the war, 194,000 soldiers graduated from advanced pilot training, 300,000 from air gunner school.

He relayed the stories of some of the men he met while covering the aerial conflict in Air Gunner (1944), written with fellow reporter Oram C. ("Bud Huttonon.

In collaboration with Bud Hutton, a Stars and Stripes colleague, Mr. Rooney wrote two books: "Air Gunner" (1944), a collection of sketches of Americans who had been stationed in Britain, and "The Story of the Stars and Stripes" (1946).

Air gunner Warrant Officer John Penboss Hunt, from Shoalhaven in New South Wales, Australia, was 21.

Mr Clarke volunteered for Bomber Command in 1940, and was accepted as a wireless operator and air gunner.

The unit's purpose was to train pilots, air observers and wireless air gunners for multi-engine aircraft operations.

Air gunners are encouraged to perform shooting group tests with their gun clamped in a machine rest to establish which particular match pellet type performs best for their particular air gun.

These duties continued after the squadron was re-designated, and early in 1939 it gained the additional role of providing conversion training on the Anson for new pilots and air gunners.

The programme originally called only for an initial training wing and six schools, but this was expanded to eight flying schools and a school for bomb aimers, navigators and air gunners.

While 1,245 Australian airmen arrived in the UK during the last six months of 1944 (a reduction from the 5,181 who had arrived in the first six months of the year), only those who were qualified as air gunners were typically ever assigned to combat units.