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...Varied Approach. The A-20s had disappeared behind the trees and contours of the ground. No, here they were again. Seeming to run ahead of their own sound, they came in from all quarters, strafing the field at zero altitude with simulated machine-gun fire. No one gunner could have followed all of them, or even two of them, in their complicated crisscross of attack...
...make recognition easier, the Eighth Air Force announced that it was painting white rims on engine cowlings of the P-47, a step the Germans may well nullify by painting their own fighters the same way. But Flying Fortress and Liberator gunners will probably not be overly worried by such dodges. Where there is doubt, a gunner shoots at anything within range. It is up to friendly fighter pilots to govern themselves accordingly...
...five-week course, seven days a week, gunner students learn shooting from the first rudiments of sighting, which they learn to do with both eyes open, using the sighting*, or master, eye to put the gun on the target...
Sport for Deflection. While the student learns his guns in the classroom, he also learns to shoot with real weapons from his first week, usually becomes so enamored of his subject that he never wants to go to town, always calls himself "gunner." Shooting begins against fixed targets with .22-caliber rifles. But this is just to check fundamentals. For the rest of the course, Gunner Doe fires at targets on the wing. In an aircraft, almost all his shooting will be at fleeting targets, and the emphasis in training must be on "deflection" shooting, i.e., leading a target...
TIME has always been important to many of us ... but never before have we found it so essential to a comprehensive and complete picture of a world at war. Without the kind of reporting that TIME gives us, the machine gunner's vision of the world is limited to his sector of fire; the pilot's to his operating radius; and the rifleman's to the extreme limit of his own eyesight...