Word: intercom
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...intercom spoke again: "Fighters at ten o'clock. Fighters at twelve o'clock." Far out to the right, at two o'clock, five or six were waiting. Slowly, gracefully, one peeled off and started toward us, closer & closer. Even before he was in range, our right gun fired. The tracers were too low. They moved closer, but the Messerschmitt had made his pass and gone...
...return trip a new cloud of Focke-Wulfs attacked. Over the intercom the tail gunner said: "Two Forts are going down. Chutes opening from one. Can't see the other." Down below gun batteries made orange flashes, brown smoke spouted straight up, then black flak burst...
...Georgia Peach's guns were never silent, vibrating like riveters; empty brass cartridges piled up on the floor of the nose. Suddenly against a white cloud bank far ahead appeared dark specks. "I think the Spits are coming back," said intercom. "Be careful, though, boys." Spitfires streaked toward us, lipped into the Germans, then came back, darting protectively across our tail and either wing...