Word: turrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kuroki is a technical sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Forces, a qualified turret gunner in B-24 Liberator bombers, veteran of 30 heavy bombing missions against the enemy, survivor of the ruthless, costly raid on the Ploesti oilfields of Rumania, winner of two Distinguished Flying Crosses, wearer of the coveted Air Medal with four oakleaf clusters...
Four of them were over Germany, and on the last one his luck almost ran out. He was flying as top-turret gunner over Münster when a flak burst hit the turret dome, shattered his goggles, tore off his oxygen mask. Copilot and radioman pulled him down and revived him with an emergency mask. After that, Ben got his orders for home...
...launchers are arranged like a flat bank of ten organ pipes at the bow of a small naval landing craft. The crew takes shelter in the bottom of the craft to avoid the backlash of flame from the rockets. The firing is directed from a steel, asbestos-lined turret in the stern. Navy officers conceded that the rockets had proved of value, but discouraged over-sensational treatment of the weapon, pointing out that it could only supplement the heavy-artillery barrage before a landing...
Like all American bombers, the Superfortress is heavily armored and gunned (with .50-caliber machine guns). There is a chin turret in the nose, a ball turret in the belly, a turret atop the fuselage and one in the tail...
...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...