gunners

What happens with anti gunners is they just end up making hunting and shooting so expensive it becomes a rich mans sport.

The F-Team 2008

That General Weed was mortally wounded on Little Round Top while assisting at Hazlett's battery on account of the scarcity of gunners, is well established.

At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle: A True Narrative 1889

Tucker lived with the unit, known as the gunners, during two separate monthlong periods.

THE SOLDIERS' STORY 2007

The guns were twelve-pounders, taken from a flotilla of Russian warships that had taken shelter in Lisbon from an Atlantic storm and there been captured by the Royal Navy, while the gunners were a mix of Portuguese and British artillerymen who had ranged their unfamiliar weapons, determining that the shots would reach across the wide valley that was spread east and west beneath Work Number 119.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

If the gunners are any good at all they are going to be tracking me now.

Cooper, William E. 1990

To order a small force of seven officers and 80 men to charge up a steep narrow road into the very mouths of 16 cannon before supporting infantry could get close enough to engage the gunners was a very callous thing to do, even for Napoleon.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

To order a small force of seven officers and 80 men to charge up a steep narrow road into the very mouths of 16 cannon before supporting infantry could get close enough to engage the gunners was a very callous thing to do, even for Napoleon.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

One of the wants much felt by the gunners was the need of more shrapnel during the action.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

My gunners were a pretty efficient lot, and I was sure they would give a good account of themselves on "der Tag."

Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather

Throughout all that time only the gunners were able to keep a lookout for enemy fighters as the rest of the crew had, a special job to do.

The R.C.A.F. Bomber Group in Action 1945