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The B-17 Memphis Belle from WWII fame.
Memphis Belle was the first B-17 complete 25 mission with the 8th Air Force. This example of an earlier model B-17 does not have the chin turret. The chin turret was added later in the war in response to German frontal attacks on bomber formations.
B17 Fuddy Duddy B17 Sentimental Journey
Sentimental Journey taxis in Sentimental Journey's Pinup nose art
The later model B-17's sport the twin 50's in a chin turret.
Sentimental Journey touching down.
In my mind, no other poem from the second World War brings the reality of the conflict home more then Randall Jarrell's "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner".
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
by Randall Jarrell
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
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