Word: turreted
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...Forces his diminutive stature made him a natural for gunner in the cramped ball turret suspended from the belly of a 6-17 Flying Fortress. His nickname was "Snuffy...
...intensive training ("Our planes were in the air at 7 a.m. each morning and sometimes we'd still be at it at 10 p.m.") did not bother him. He thought the B-25 (North America's medium-range Mitchell bomber, stripped of its radio, bottom gun-turret and Norden bombsight) was a lively ship...
...wingspread (in feet) of the attacking plane. After that he frames the plane between illumined reticules (cross hairs or similar lines imposed on the field of vision), in a mirror on the sight, and keeps it framed there. He tracks it with the handle controls of his power-operated turret. When the enemy plane fills the space between the lighted lines, it is time to fire...
...About this time the bombardier let loose his load on Kiel. It wasn't too soon because both the bombardier and navigator were hit a moment later. When the ball-turret gunner came up to help, we lifted Steve out of his seat and laid him along the catwalk above the bomb bays and covered him with flying clothes. We had been handing the captain 'walk-around' oxygen bottles after the regular system got busted. Now we gave him Steve's tube. We saw that Steve didn't need it any more...
...turret-gunner in a Martin Marauder, stubby, husky Staff Sergeant Clifford R. Wherley of Elmwood, Ill. has made 21 sorties against the enemy, won the Air Medal with three oakleaf clusters, been an all-round good fighting man. But in North Africa last week his career was ended...