Sentence examples for of a gunner from inspiring English sources

In July 2011 the interior of Y Turret, the aftmost 6-inch turret, was redisplayed using audio-visual and atmospheric effects, seeking to evoke the experience of a gunner at the Battle of North Cape.

The nest composes of a gunner, a loader, and a lookout.

This improved carriage, though heavy in its proportions, would have been familiar to a gunner of Napoleonic times.

Gunners controlled the range of their cannon by measuring the angle of elevation, using a "gunner's quadrant".

Gunners controlled the range of their cannons by measuring the angle of elevation, using a "gunner's quadrant".

Stephen Sametz of Wayne was a gunner's mate serving on the ship at the time.

Gray, of Greater Manchester, served as a gunner in No 2 Squadron of the RAF Regiment, protecting airfields and aircraft, and was stationed in Baghdad in 2004.

New Rangers captain Barton believes his hopes of becoming a Gunners player were scuppered after he was involved in Gervinho's sending-off on the opening day of the Barclays Premier League season.

While we were in the air, of course, everybody was a gunner.

On the plinth of Jagger's memorial lies the bronze figure of a dead gunner shrouded by his gas cape and helmet.

Beginning in 1942, when he was 20, he fought in World War II as a Marine, serving in Guam and Japan and performing the duties of a rear gunner in a torpedo bomber.