Word: turretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from childhood, the difference between them was the way they spelled their names. In school, in scrapes, in games, in the R.A.F., they were always together. Together they were in a big Berlin raid, Sid as a gunner, Syd as a bombardier. Together they came back, Sid in his turret, Syd in the nose. Both were dead. In flag-draped coffins, side by side, they were taken home together...
...minutes the Goon rocked and shook as the Zeros came in close. To Technical Sergeant Arthur P. Benko, turret gunner in the bomber over southern China, it seemed more like 40 seconds. Twice his twin .50s jammed, but he cleared them. By fight's end, he had knocked down seven Zeros...
Said quiet Sergeant Benko, grey-haired at 32: "I never worked that turret so fast before." His quick shooting brought his total score to 16 Jap planes, three more than Colonel Bruce Holloway's, ranking ace of the Fourteenth Air Force. It also made him top gun among all aerial gunners in the A.A.F...
Liberator (Consolidated B-24). Newer than the eight-year-old Fortress, the 6-24 has the same characteristics. Possibly a shade less rugged under enemy gunfire than the Fortress, the 6-24 is slightly faster, has more range, recently had its fighting potency increased by addition of a nose turret. Its fighting and bombing performance in Europe has paralleled the Fortresses' work and it has been pulled out for special long-range work, notably the raid from North Africa on the Ploesti oilfield refineries. In the Pacific, in 161 sorties over a given period...
...they said. They and the Colonel crawled into a ditch by the road, fired when the tank was ten feet away. The tank began smoking and the German crew, screaming with pain, started to climb from the turret. Colonel Stephenson said: "My men cut them down one by one with rifles as they climbed...