Ball Turret Gunner Youtube
Here is a link to a youtube video that a guy took when he was allowed to go up in a b 17 bomber and take video.
Ball turret gunner youtube. The death of the ball turret gunner is a fantastic example of what poetry is capable of. And it often went to the shortest man among the crew. Think of it this way. Staff sergeant james d.
A ball turret was a particular form of spherical form altazimuth mount movement manned aircraft gun turret accommodating the gunner with nearly all the needed equipment for defensive firepower except for the ammunition storage mounted either within or onto the spherical shell of the turret structure mounted on aircraft during world war ii the most common one was manufactured by the sperry. Being a ball turret gunner was definitely one of the most dangerous assignments during ww2. Death and the gunner. Inspired me to compose some music.
I know one of the ball turret gunners and he was only twenty years old when he was a gunner. If you had to write something in prose dealing with the complexity and emotion of big subjects like life death and war it would take you way more than 5 sentences to get it done. Houtchens 37483248 nebraska killed in action. Staff sergeant william h.
Being a ball turret gunner would have been a scary but exciting job. It wasn t easy what they had to go through. The death of the ball turret gunner title right from the start jarrell confronts the reader with ideas and images of war. Ramey found the turret in a surplus shop many years ago.
One of the poems the death of the ball turret gunner. Great documentary on such brave young men. At a later date i put together a video to go with it the video was taken from news footage of the time. How does all the war and death in the title work with the poem s first line.
A diagram depicting how a gunner sits inside a sperry a2 ball turret. Staff sergeant ralph j. American poet randall jarrell wrote a five line poem called the death of the ball turret gunner which was published in 1945. It took him 15 years to convince the owner to sell it and he s.