We think we have it hard today

[woodenhead]

So last night Youtube served this as a suggestion, as most of my feed it Drum and Bass, trains or coding it took my eye.

 

Listen to the typical attire these gents wore for an 8 hour mission, this was the Yanks and the way he describes it, it still wasn't enough, I wonder what the RAF had to make do with.

 

 

[pH]

I won’t post it here, but there is short poem called “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell. It was actually included in a book of poetry we used in high school. That fact amazed me then, and still does.

Edited November 2, 2020 by pH

[woodenhead]

Nice ending "When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose"