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LIFE Magazine photo of a serviceman getting into a B-17 ball turret (lemmy.world)
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And a second photo with him almost fully secured in the containment capsule:

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[โ€“] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago

Oof. I feel like this is obligatory to post with any mention of it.

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Randall Jarrell โ€”-

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 its 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.