Which is why, on a sunny afternoon in Sarajevo this past January, a Serb gunner fired a high explosive shell into a group of children sledding.
He attacked an eighth Japanese bomber, but its tail gunner fired on Lieutenant Swett's plane, shattering his windshield and damaging his engine.
The gunner fired into random buildings, and something exploded behind us, but the snipers and ambushes that we braced for never came.
Three witnesses described how Sergeant Brooks, as the lead vehicle's gunner, fired careful warning shots into the pavement to halt at least two Afghan cars that approached after the suicide bomb attack — shots that they said did not appear to injure the vehicles' occupants.
As the gunner fired the tank's main cannon, Kouma sank many of the boats attempting to cross the river with his machine gun.
He spoke some English and just kept asking, "Why'd they shoot me?" Another time, a machine gunner fired two shots at a motorcycle coming at us in a way that was potentially dangerous.
From his position, Statton observed a line of German machine gunners firing on the 37th Battalion and preventing its advance.
As with the first night, indirect fire had again played a crucial role in the defence, with the New Zealand gunners firing another 5,700 rounds (out of a divisional total of 9,500 rounds) in support of the Australians and the US Marines.
He fought the controls to bring his rescue helicopter within 100 yards of Hambleton, his gunners firing the airship's three GAU-2/A 7.62 mm (.308 in) six-barreled miniguns, engaging the North Vietnamese on every side.
Sustained rate of fire, the rate of fire at which the gunner can fire continuously without overheating, is approximately 850 r/min.
