We started our training in gunnery school in November, 1942. From Wordnik.com. ["OUR TURN NEXT"] Reference
Even though he never took control of an aircraft while in gunnery school, Clark reveled in the opportunity to soar and dive inside of AT-6 training planes. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference
For there is order in everything, and particularly in German gunnery. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
He was noted for the especial care he had devoted to training his crew in gunnery, which is generally believed to have been the deciding factor in the duel with Chesapeake. From Wordnik.com. [FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES] Reference
I called the gunnery sgt & wired him a C-note. From Wordnik.com. [American Tabloid]
Any kind of gunnery from those vantage-spots would guard the press. From Wordnik.com. [The Clarion] Reference
But his most vigorous insistence was upon gunnery. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
To this end he demanded "unceasing" gunnery practice. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
He was an infantryman, and rose to the rank of gunnery sergeant. From Wordnik.com. [A Marine's Suicide Brings The Battle Home] Reference
Later I will tell how much this extra gunnery training helped him. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
Tsao-kai, the gunnery lieutenant, was badly wounded and taken below. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
Lanko flicked off the gunnery switches and leaned back, rubbing his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Players] Reference
The end of the avenue, I knew, was the target of their anti-aircraft gunnery. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
In 1537, Niccolo Tartaglia published the first scientific treatise on gunnery. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
NPR's Wade Goodwyn has this story of a Marine gunnery sergeant from California. From Wordnik.com. [A Marine's Suicide Brings The Battle Home] Reference
It must be confessed that the gunnery of the Americans was not of a high order. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
By this I mean men skilled in machine gunnery as applied to present-day warfare. From Wordnik.com. [The Emma Gees] Reference
"Commence firing on that cruiser, Hagen," Evans yelled up at his gunnery officer. From Wordnik.com. [Dead In the Water] Reference
If the English had any advantage in their tactics, it was in their ideas of gunnery. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
The crews of every ship on the North American Station were to be exercised in gunnery. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
"Come with me, and we'll get you togged out for the ride," said the gunnery lieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
Remember that he was the one who had gone to Texas to advanced gunnery school and came back to. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
Major Bullivant inquired whether he couldn't be selected for the next gunnery course at Shoeburyness. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
She had a very raw crew, including very few real seamen, and her men had only had one day's gunnery drill. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The lst weeks of our training here at Oakland were formation, gunnery, dive bombing, and simulated aerial attacks. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
I met the other officers -- Lt. Pollard the gunnery officer, Ensign Esterhazy the astrogator, and Ensign Blakiston. From Wordnik.com. [A Question of Courage] Reference
One is, as regards their gunnery powers, as good as the other, and the garrison gunners earned their laurels later on. From Wordnik.com. [With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service] Reference
I shall hope, when able to do it, to revert to my gunnery line by-and-bye, as it has stood me in good stead in the past. From Wordnik.com. [With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service] Reference
Naval gunnery officers would occasionally order all their guns trained at the same angle and elevated to the same degree. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
They steamed back towards Constantinople, but had to delay the return for they had to go out to sea for gunnery practice. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
The AT-6 was designed with places for machine guns in the wings and we were sent in groups to Elgin Field in Florida for gunnery practice. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
At Jutland in 1916 the Grand Fleet had speed and firepower, but were vulnerable to better German gunnery, though the navy's blockade helped win the war. From Wordnik.com. [New era, same old defence cuts] Reference
By the time the gunnery lieutenant and I reached the ways on which the great seaplane rested, men in overalls, begrimed with oil and dirt, were testing the engine. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
The gunnery range was along an uninhabited portion of the California coast and we would fly down close to the rocks along the shore to scare the seals off the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
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