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...minutes the Goon rocked and shook as the Zeros came in close. To Technical Sergeant Arthur P. Benko, turret gunner in the bomber over southern China, it seemed more like 40 seconds. Twice his twin .50s jammed, but he cleared them. By fight's end, he had knocked down seven Zeros...
...roof prism is used in a gun sight's elbow telescope, which enables an anti-aircraft gunner, for example, to look horizontally into the eyepiece and see his target overhead. The elbow telescope inverts the image; the roof prism's function is to turn the image right side up. Roof prisms are thum-sized, polished crystals whose two top facets are shaped like a peaked roof. In manufacture, a piece of glass is first sawed roughly to shape, then ground to exact proportions by a delicate hand. In the final product, every facet must be absolutely flat...
Nero Hour. Over Rome, Captain Harry R. Burrell's waist-gunner saw fires, snatched up a violin and fiddled...
...After almost reaching the U.S. position walked plump into a Nazi machine gunner, wide awake and ready for business...
...glum silence. Said Campbell, nervously: "Let's be friendly," and handed the German a package of Camels. "Italienisch?" asked the Nazi, his curiosity mildly aroused. "No, American," McGovern replied, and the two Yanks turned as one man and walked, did not run, across the open field. The machine gunner scratched his head, did nothing. A few hundred yards away Campbell and McGovern met an American sentry who passed them on to safety...