Turret gunner

flying B-24s and its navy version, PB4Ys. Returning from the target, Julio’s plane begin “escort- ing” a damaged navy bomber, and for the next 25 minutes, they man- aged to repel a swarm of enemy fighters attacking the two stragglers. As the ball turret gunner, Sgt Diaz shared credit for shooting down a Zero and credited with a probable for another. After a long flight, the navy plane was able to return to its base but the army plane was not so fortu- nate. Suffering heavy damage and running out of fuel

descriptions. Many of the themes can be compared to other literature. One of the themes that can be compared is fear in war. The idea is that the evils and cruelty of war can make a grown man go back into a "fetal" state. This can be seen in The Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell and can be compared to the metaphor used in chapter five of Catch 22. In this chapter Yossarian talks about the tight crawl space which led to the plexiglass bombardier’s compartment. This can be looked at as the passageway

It was a quiet week in the Sadr City and the surrounding area. And we were gearing up to support another Red/Orange hat operation (Special Ops Teams) to include the Seals in this operation. The operation was to secure and capture a building with Four High-Value Targets (HVI’s) from Iran to include a high ranking officer out of the Jaish Mahdi Army (JAM) that they were supposedly having a meeting in the Area of Operation (AO). We were given four hours of prep time after Warning ORDER was given

they were caught in a large ambush in Sadr City. Battalion came over the Radio and said it would be 20 mic’s before they were there. I looked at my wingman and he looked back and said lets go get our brothers. Our drivers and gunners had already fully loaded the turrets and guns back up, even the Tow was up. I radioed up to Battalion and said we would meet them there at the grid that was given because it was 7 minutes

The turret had a crew of forty gunners to load and fire these great guns and for maintenance. The barbette, where the powder and shells for the great guns were stored, was manned by 35 additional sailors. The barbette and turret, without ammunition, weighed 1,950 tons by its self. The shell it fired weighed 1980 pounds. The main battery – as James would learn – had

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress, a 4 engine propeller driven heavy bomber designed by Boeing, flown by the US during WWII and the Korean War. 3,970 of these planes were built, at a costly $639,188 each. A 99ft long, 28ft tall, 141ft wide super-plane decorated with four wright r-3350-23 duplex cyclone supercharged radial engines at 2200hp each, was a plane of it’s time. A high altitude strategic bomber, also carrying out low altitude night incendiary bombing missions, the plane known for also performing

Aircraft wasn’t used in a war until 1911 by the Italians against the Turks. Aviation became one of the most important parts of militaries in WWII. The country that had control over the air usually had defeated ground troops. Depending upon where the country lies on the map they had strengths in their militaries and weaknesses like Japan. Japan is an island and they will have a more advanced naval technology. Not all countries fought in the war but they helped other countries that they are allied

This summer I was at the Ottawa County fair doing the off-road Derby. I wasn't sure about doing it at first, but my mom and dad said I would be fine.I got to choose what number I was and I got to choose what color it was too. In the end my mom and dad were right, it was fun and I got 3rd place for my first time. By doing the derby for the first time I showed Bravery. Bravery has risks and to other people they could be good risks and bad risks.The character’s Louie from the book Unbroken and the sniper

vehicles placed for defensive purpose with some turrets. As our players joined we saw very low ranked players on the opposite team, so we felt less stress about the fight. The beginning of the fight was messy, we had some trouble locating weapons to hold our front door. On the other hand they couldn't keep the pressure on to waste our ammo so we regained our footing. After several repeated tries they

I will be comparing excerpts from ‘The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter’ by Li Po and “The Death of the Ball-Turret Gunner’ by Randall Jerrell. The speakers in each excerpt are creating serious and solemn dream-like worlds that convey their misery over being abandoned to suffer impending death alone. Imagery in both excerpts is used differently to describe death as being either immediate as in Jarrell’s poem or approaching as in Li Po’s. The major difference between the speakers in each excerpt