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...crew of the Fortress Passion Flower it was their 18th and biggest mission-the first big U.S. raid on Berlin. In the ball turret Gunner Dick Litherland of St. Francis, Ill. sweated it out-the toughest battle U.S. airmen had fought over Europe. Sixty-eight Fortresses and Liberators failed to return, but Passion Flower dragged home on three engines. Gunner Litherland told this story...
Friday Gets His First. A little past noon, Friday Weitzel, our right waist gunner, got his first German fighter. First the left waist, Curly Carroll, fired a few bursts into him as he came boring down through the high formation...
...attack was one of the greatest air battles of the war. One veteran waist-gunner called it "worse than Oschersleben and Schweinfurt put together." U.S. headquarters made it clear that "divisions" of bombers had taken part (a division can be made up of from 420 to 730 bombers). The German radio bleated that the U.S. fighter force was "of a strength rarely seen before...
Most of the arrivals were happy ones. A typical war bride: Mrs. Jack Sherwood. She met her husband, a gunner, at a hospital dance in Colchester, England, where she was a volunteer nurse, he a convalescent. They were married before he returned to Canada to be mustered out of the Army. Their reunion in Toronto included five-month-old John, whom the father had never seen...
Russian soldiers drilled in short-center field. Outfielders stood ankle-deep in sand. The catcher's mitt was a gunner's asbestos glove (for handling, hot shells) with extra padding. It took four hours to make a baseball-from part of a rubber heel wound with string, covered with leather cut from gloves. Bats were whittled out of soft Russian pine...