Examples of bombardier in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web McMackin was a 26-year-old bombardier on a B-24 Liberator that participated in Operation Tidal Wave on Aug. 1, 1943. — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2022 Dad played football as a freshman in the fall of 1942, served two years as a bombardier on a B-17, and then returned to play three more years of football, meet my mother and finally graduate in 1948. — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 3 Jan. 2021 Cindy’s father Jim Hensley, a WWII bombardier, had introduced his daughter, barely out of grad school, to Capt. — Town & Country, 21 Oct. 2020 As part of the 10-man crew, Granat, the bombardier, and Parker, the navigator, would lead 41 aircraft from the 491st Bombardment Group on a difficult re-supply mission over German-occupied Holland. — oregonlive, 24 May 2020 The bombardier applied a tourniquet and shot him with morphine but the leg could not be saved; it was amputated the next day. — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020 Christopher Abbott also secured a nomination for his portrayal of a bombardier desperate to complete his missions in the waning days of the war. — Meredith Blake, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2019 Shrapnel peppered his aircraft, fatally injuring the bombardier and nearly severing the navigator’s leg. — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019 The bombardier, Grunder said, saved his life by tying a tourniquet. — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 5 Dec. 2019 See More

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