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...nothing. Then suddenly R for Roger sighted it again and dove to attack from 60 feet. But Roger's bombs stuck, and on his second try shells from the battling sub wrecked his hydraulic system. Over & over he circled to keep watch on the sub while his gunner slithered in oil trying to fix the bomb releases...
...marine taken from the water had suffered the greatest indignity of them all. His head had been blown off completely; both his arms were gone. I was nauseated, although I had become inured to almost anything by that time. I turned to the big, red-bearded marine gunner who stood beside me and I said: "What a hell of a way to die." The gunner looked me in the eye and said: "No, it's not. You can't pick any better...
...brought back from Algiers in a Fortress, after the shuttle raid on Regensburg late last summer, by three sergeants who paid 400 francs ($8) for the little beast. As expected, Lady Moe panicked the home base when she stuck her ridiculous hairy head out of the waist gunner's window as the plane landed. British health authorities were not amused, but eventually gave the animal a clean bill...
...turret gunner fired directly into the conning tower of the sub, killing its anti-aircraft gunners. The bombardier released his depth charges, which straddled the sub, sinking it in half a minute. The survivors, stunned by the swift attack, were picked up later by a destroyer...
...stop the ponderous, night-hidden R.A.F. Fighter protection for U.S. daylight formations is neutralizing the Luftwaffe's newfangled rockets and its bombing technique against U.S. formations-so long as the bombers stay within escort range, which has not yet lengthened enough to embrace inner Germany. Many a U.S. gunner returns nowadays with ammunition boxes heaped high with unused shells...