In January 1945 I had a letter from home telling me that my brother had enlisted in the RAF. A man who survived 60 missions as a Lancaster rear gunner during World War II might be forgiven for trying to forget his wartime experiences. After his first B-17 mission over Germany, the young radio operator-gunner was convinced that he could not survive 25 missions . A ball turret was a Plexiglas sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24, and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine guns and one man, a short small man.When this gunner tracked with his machine guns a fighter attacking his bomber from below, he revolved with the turret; hunched upside-down in his little . Lt. Floyd Coffield bombed German oil refineries at Ploesti during World War II. He is seen here giving an interview from his waist-gunner position aside a .50 caliber Browning M2 machine gun. Wham! During his tour, he had a finger shot off, and his B-24 was shot down over enemy territory. Life and Death Aboard a B-17, 1944 - EyeWitness to History I Was Praying Out Loud Again. John Quinlan, the tail gunner on the celebrated B-17 "Memphis Belle", who had an unofficial tally of 8 enemy fighters destroyed-five of those over Europe in the "Belle" and three more as a tail gunner in a B-29 over Japan. I slither down the slope to the rear turret, settle into my seat, plug in the intercom connection, connect the oxygen supply, turn around to pick up my gloves and then lock the sliding doors. My Dad, Flight Sergeant Edward Williams served as a tail gunner with 426 (Thunderbird) Squadron during WW2. machine gunner life expectancy - wishtransform.com . . By mid-1942, a German dive bombers' life expectancy in combat had fallen to less than five days. He is seen here giving an interview from his waist-gunner position aside a .50 caliber Browning M2 machine gun. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. As a tail gunner he didn't have a high life expectancy.
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