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Trump,is gonna get the new name "tailgunner", I think that's what they called Joe McCarthy.
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The pilot was Phillips, a close friend of Zamperini's, and the tailgunner was a relative stranger, Sgt.
FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010
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The pilot was Phillips, a close friend of Zamperini's, and the tailgunner was a relative stranger, Sgt.
FOXNews.com James Rosen 2010
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It's a lot harder to break the authoritarian spell with these guys, in part because the lesson of what happened to "tailgunner" Joe is very much in the forefront of their minds and they are better defended against it.
Elizabeth Edwards Spells Out For Wolf What's Wrong With Ann Coulter 2009
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Les for being up front, Msgt Perry leading everyone over to the coast and for also being my tailgunner, and the man that led the commands at the funeral Well done brother ...
JOHN ANDREW MULLETT 2010
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Three clone trooper pilots operated this advanced combat craft, with a pilot handling the flight maneuvers, a copilot operating the laser cannons mounted on the ship's wide wings, and a tailgunner operating the dorsal rear-facing cannon.
The Clone Wars Papercraft-ARC-170 | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008
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The Costa Book Awards, one of the second-rank British book awards (behind the Booker but still pretty big), announced their Book of the Year Tuesday: A.L. Kennedy's novel Day, about an RAF tailgunner reliving the war as a movie extra five years later, which just came out in the U.S. this month.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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You too were a fan of the ol 'tailgunner, Joe McCarthy?
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I figure she might have a problem getting the nomination if she was in the tailgunner position last year.
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At the outset, a B-29 tailgunner named Muldrow is shot down over Tokyo in the last days of World War II.
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