Word: gunner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldier fashion the President picked an admirable but not outstanding personage, Dr. Heinrich Bruning, bachelor, scholar, onetime machine gunner (Iron Cross and wounds), who just three months ago forged up from a quite dim obscurity in the Catholic Centre Party to become its leader...
...No.1 Gunner...
...Chief of Staff rank the heads of the four combatant services: cavalry, field artillery, infantry, air corps. To succeed Major General Fred Thaddeus Austin, retired, as Chief of Field Artillery, President Hoover last week appointed Col. Harry Gore Bishop, 56, who forthwith became a Major General and No. 1 Gunner...
...Figuratively. Technically, No. 1 Gunner is that member of the gun squad who pulls the lanyard which ignites the discharge...
Died. Lieut. Mons Monssen, U. S. N., retired; in Brooklyn Naval Hospital; following appendectomy. In 1904, as chief gunner's mate on the battleship Missouri, he saved 600 officers and men from destruction by leaping into the powder magazine of a flaming gun turret, shutting the door, fighting the fire with bare hands. President Roosevelt pinned the Medal of Honor on his breast...