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Gunnery

The Gunnery, a coeducational prep school in Connecticut, United States


3rd Battalion 4th Marines

The most recognizable is a Pulitzer Prize winning photo, taken on Hill 400, showing a wounded Gunnery Sergeant Jeremiah Purdie being guided by a Hospital Corpsman Darrell Hinde as he reaches out to Sergeant Larry Mitchel whom was also seriously wounded waiting to be medevaced.

54th Bombardment Squadron

At this time it comprised the 1st Pursuit Squadron, the 54th Bombardment Squadron (Medium), the 24th Bombardment Squadron (Light), the 54th School Squadron, the 61st Air Base Group, and the 3rd Gunnery and Bombing Range Detachment.

Arthur Leveson

Serving as a Gunnery Lieutenant upon HMS Victoria in 1893, he survived the sinking of HMS Victoria on 22 June 1893 after she collided with HMS Camperdown near Tripoli, Lebanon during manoeuvres and quickly sank, taking 358 crew with her, including the commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.

Bernard B. Fall

On 21 February 1967, while accompanying a company of the 1st Battalion 9th Marines on Operation Chinook II in the Street Without Joy, Thừa Thiên Province, Fall stepped on a Bouncing Betty land mine and was killed, along with Gunnery Sergeant Byron G. Highland, a U.S. Marine Corps combat photographer.

Bofors 40 mm gun

Eventually an anti-aircraft gunnery school on the range at Stiffkey on the Norfolk coast delivered a workable solution, a trapeze-like arrangement that moved the pancake sights to offer lead correction, operated by a new crew-member standing behind the left-hand layer.

Brandy Bay, Dorset

Lulworth Ranges are part of the Armoured Fighting Vehicles Gunnery School at Lulworth Camp.

Clayton Lawrence Bissell

He sailed for England with the 22nd Aero Squadron, and received additional flying training at Salisbury Plain in England and aerial gunnery training in Scotland.

Combat America

:"1st Lieutenant Clark Gable is hereby directed to proceed to England ... for making a combat film dealing particularly with the combat phases of aerial gunnery ... ".

Coronado Islands

In May 1943 the U.S. Navy's USS PC-815, commanded by L. Ron Hubbard, conducted unauthorized gunnery exercises involving the shelling of the Coronado Islands, in the belief they were uninhabited and belonged to the United States.

Daniel Santbech

Santbech also studied the subject of gunnery and ballistics as a theoretic discourse as well as for the practical application of war, and utilized the foundations of geometry, with ample references to Euclid and Ptolemy, in order to do so.

Desmond Mueller

Following a gunnery staff course at the School of Artillery in the United Kingdom, he held various appointments as Instructor-in-Gunnery, Adjutant, Battery Commander and Commanding Officer of the School of Artillery.

Dogger Bank incident

More serious losses to both sides were only avoided by the extremely low quality of Russian gunnery, with the battleship Oryol reportedly firing more than 500 shells without hitting anything.

Ernest Emery Harmon

Harmon earned his wings in May 1918 at Gerstner Field, Louisiana, where he went on to become a flight, gunnery, and bombing instructor.

Focke-Wulf Fw 187

One Fw 187 was sent to the aerial gunnery school in Værløse, Denmark in 1942.

Fort Haldane

Haldane was friends with noted English scientist Benjamin Robins, and he enlisted Robins to help with the gunnery placements for the fort.

Francis Newall, 2nd Baron Newall

He remained there until successfully completing the course in the middle of 1950, at which point (following further gunnery training) he joined the 11th Hussars, then stationed with the British Army of the Rhine in Osnabrück, Germany.

German destroyer Z8 Bruno Heinemann

Bruno Heinemann had been fitted with four of the new weapons and they were removed after gunnery trials off Ålesund were completed.

Gunnery Sergeant

Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon), fictional lead character for the show NCIS, "Senior" Special Agent and former Marine well known to high ranking Navy and Marine officers on the show as "Gunny", a nickname for Gunnery Sergeants, in the spirit of camaraderie.

Guy Harvey

Guy Harvey was born in Bad Lippspringe, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany on September 16, 1955 while his father was serving as a Gunnery Officer in the British Army.

History of Lobos

On August 21, 1779 Gunnery Sergeant Pedro Rodríguez concluded the construction of the main parts of the fort San Pedro de Los Lobos, over the eastern bank of the Lagoon about 300 meters from its shoreline and nearly 1,500 meters east of the mouth of Las Garzas stream, finishing the work Lieutenant Bernardo Serrano had begun.

Ivan Mazepa

As a page was sent to study "gunnery" in Deventer (Dutch Republic) in 1656-1659, during the time of which Mazepa traveled across the Western Europe.

J.C. Wylie

For his improvised integration of radar, gunnery, and torpedo control during these two actions, Wylie received a Silver Star.

Little Orme

The Royal Artillery coastal gunnery school, 198 battery, was posted to Little Orme during the Second World War.

Loren McIntyre

After the war, McIntyre was assigned to the Peruvian Navy as a gunnery adviser, retiring with the rank of Captain.

Mario Fucini

This was followed by a May stint in gunnery school in Pisa.

Monomoy Island Gunnery Range

The Monomoy Island Gunnery Range was a former Air Force gunnery range for aviators, located on Monomoy Island, in Chatham, Massachusetts and in use circa 1942-1950.

Nigel Carter

He served in the Navy from 1963 to 1970, receiving his wings as a fixed-wing aircraft pilot and then qualifying in gunnery.

Norman Williams

He returned to Australia in April 1944, and was posted as a tutor at the air gunnery school in Cressy, Victoria.

RAF Holbeach

The range opened in 1926 as an air gunnery range attached to and established by R.A.F. Practice Camp Sutton Bridge (later named RAF Sutton Bridge).

Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins

Idiotic driving instructor and former United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Rafferty (Alan Arkin) lives in poverty near Hollywood, California.

Ralph U. Hyde

In August, 1922, he was selected to serve aboard the presidential yacht, the USS Mayflower for two years during the term of President Warren G. Harding, as First Lieutenant, Watch and Division Officer, and Gunnery Officer.

RCAF Station Mossbank

RCAF Station Mossbank was home to No. 2 Bombing and Gunnery School, a Second World War British Commonwealth Air Training Plan training facility located near Mossbank, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Seaborne target

Target ships are vessels, typically obsolete or captured warships, used for naval gunnery practice or for weapons testing – perhaps most spectacularly in Operation Crossroads (1946), where 95 ships were sunk in a U.S. nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll.

TAI Turna

The Research and Development Department of the Turkish Ministry of National Defence awarded a contract to the TAI in August 1995 for the development of a drone for use by Turkish Air Force and Army in target tracking and gunnery firing exercises.

The Grey and Simcoe Foresters

LFCA TC was designed in 1942 for the purpose of training soldiers in tank warfare and artillery gunnery.

Thomas M. Harries

On 9 May 1917, he was being piloted in Strutter serial number A963 when he used his gunnery skills to set a German Albatros D.III fighter afire in the sky west of Menin for his first victory.

Tim Lees-Spalding

As the Commander (Executive Officer) of the Royal Naval Engineering College, by now located at Manadon near Plymouth, Lees-Spalding was the first non-Gunnery Officer to preside over the Queen's Birthday Parade on Plymouth Hoe in 1959.


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