Lots of good stuff there.
Randall Jarrell, who served in the USAAF during World War II, wrote a famous poem, "The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner":
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
