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JiimyPopAli
Oct 5, 2009
 I still remember this from high school:

Randall Jarrell posted:

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 the 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.

What is a ball turret gunner?

http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/gunner/gunner.html

Although it doesn't show a good picture of one, so here's a link to one:

http://www.aero-pix.com/dayton03/ww2/b17/b17-b.jpg

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