Ball Turret Gunner Crushed

The youtube link just shows which episode the b 17 was in.

Ball turret gunner crushed. He d be crushed for those manning that station death was indeed a particularly gruesome affair as detailed. One of the poems the death of the ball turret gunner. B17 belly landing at podington base bedfordshire uk 1944 taken from my dvd which i have produced called the doc furniss war in ntsc pal. Ball turret gunner was killed due to belly landing.

Bailing out of a 17 however the lower turret gunner had the greatest chance of dying. The turret held the gunner two heavy machine guns ammunition and sights. From my mother s sleep i fell into the state and i hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. The death of the ball turret gunner is a five line poem by randall jarrell published in 1945.

If you either buy the dvd or wait for a repeat of the show. At a later date i put together a video to go with it the video was taken from news footage of the time. Black b in a white triangle underneath yellow 231613 under that yellow n. A ball turret was a spherical shaped altazimuth mount gun turret fitted to some american built aircraft during world war ii the name arose from the turret s spherical housing.

It is about the death of a gunner in a sperry ball turret on a world war ii american bomber aircraft. Everybody else in the plane understood that the ball turret gunner was a dead man.