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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: FLOOB on February 27, 2014, 09:56:22 AM

Title: Look what I found.
Post by: FLOOB on February 27, 2014, 09:56:22 AM

It's all about turrets on planes. Lots of illustrations.


http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2008/07/weekend-wings-25-air-gunners.html

Title: Re: Look what I found.
Post by: Slate on February 27, 2014, 11:06:34 AM

  Lots of good stuff there.  :aok       :salute  :pray         

   (http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv15/d0nwaters/ballturret_zpsf0870e04.jpg) (http://s665.photobucket.com/user/d0nwaters/media/ballturret_zpsf0870e04.jpg.html)

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.

Title: Re: Look what I found.
Post by: Brooke on February 27, 2014, 07:33:32 PM

Quote from: FLOOB on February 27, 2014, 09:56:22 AM

It's all about turrets on planes. Lots of illustrations.


http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2008/07/weekend-wings-25-air-gunners.html

Thanks for posting this. <S>

Title: Re: Look what I found.
Post by: Wayout on February 28, 2014, 11:54:28 AM

Great find. Thanks.   :aok

Title: Re: Look what I found.
Post by: Gray on March 02, 2014, 03:41:16 PM

Great post!  Thanks.  :O