The front line belong to the men who worked there—rifle-men and machine gunners, mortarman, forward artillery observers, communications men, and medics.
It was intended to have a crew of 27 men: 1 commander, 2 drivers, 1 signaler, 1 artillery officer, 12 artillery men, 8 machine gunners, and 2 mechanics.
Could any spectacle, for instance, be more grimly whimsical than that of gunners using science to shatter men's bodies while, close at hand, surgeons use it to restore them?
Range Tables were created that allowed gunners to look up environmental conditions and the distance they wanted to fire, and the table would tell them the angle to set the canon.
Calm of eye, cool of feature, an old gray-bearded gunner-I can see him to this day-approached the cannon, put it in position, and took aim for a good while.
Evans could swing his little sixteen-inch telescope around like a tail gunner in a dogfight, spending no more than a couple of seconds on any particular point in the sky.
Presently when the telephone is repaired, the message reaches the gunners, who fire high-explosive shells on to the wire, and on to the slopes where the machine guns may be hidden.
There would be two gunners on either side of the helicopter and when the pilot managed to herd a group of goats together into a tight pack they would open fire and wipe all of them out.
At the quiet girl you share notes with, the cute guy you have a crush on, the gunner who talks too much in class, and ask yourselves, do you know who anyone really is?