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Then give her to me, and call your gun-crew to battle stations!
Archive 2008-07-01 Dave Tackett 2008
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Then give her to me, and call your gun-crew to battle stations!
Slave of the Lizard-Men. Dave Tackett 2008
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The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of smoke covered and effaced both cannon and men; after a few seconds, the cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position facing the barricade.
Les Miserables 2008
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Penna., acting as Number 2 man on the gun-crew, sustained a compound fracture of the leg.
The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces William Elmer Bachman
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The gun-crew died defending their whirling weapon.
Hunters Out of Space Joseph Everidge Kelleam 1944
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But though dozens of ill-aimed shots were fired at him, Grim Hagen still lived, dodging here and there, rallying his men, and urging his gun-crew to finish setting up that odd weapon.
Hunters Out of Space Joseph Everidge Kelleam 1944
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Grim Hagen's gun-crew got the strange weapon unlimbered.
Hunters Out of Space Joseph Everidge Kelleam 1944
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A gun-crew screamed and died as one of the needle-nosed machines melted into puddles of steel.
Hunters Out of Space Joseph Everidge Kelleam 1944
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Apparently the geek gun-crew didn't know how to synchronize the radar sights, and were ignorant of the correct setting for the proximity-fuzes.
Ullr Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934
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The next few hours must have been very uncomfortable for the German gun-crew.
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