Sentence examples for gunnery practice from inspiring English sources

WASPs also towed targets for aerial gunnery practice.

The pace is characteristically slow and measured, with room for little jokes and digressions and for one big set piece -- a sulfurous, earsplitting session of gunnery practice.

He writes scenes of them in gunnery practice during which Cassada fails at first to hit the target and then succeeds.

The WASP performed routine testing of military aircraft; flew administrative missions; towed targets for live gunnery practice, and, in total, flew every type mission except combat".

They performed duties formerly done by men: some ferried new planes to their destinations, others towed targets for aerial gunnery practice, still others were flight instructors.

April - May , 1944 Gunnery practice, Greenock.

The United States Navy ceased using part of the island for gunnery and bombing practice in 1975.

By 2001 local protests had mounted against the navy's use of a portion of the nearby island of Vieques for its maneuvers, including gunnery and bombing practice, and the federal government, bowing to public pressure, announced plans to halt the bombing.

She returned to New York City on 5 May, and then left for Portsmouth on 4 June to participate in the coronation fleet review for King George V. Throughout the next five years, Delaware participated in the normal peacetime routine of fleet and squadron maneuvers, gunnery drills, and torpedo practice in the Atlantic Fleet.

Once the manœuvres were finished, Dewar was made assistant to the Inspector of Target Practice, an important gunnery position at the Admiralty on 17 July.

After the Battle of Tsushima the Imperial Navy concentrated on improving their gunnery skills and fire-control practices.