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...R.A.F. Lancaster- "B for Beer" - neared its target, the bombardier turned to a helmeted man beside him. Said the bombardier...
...Major, this is my favorite target. You miss that and, rank or no rank. I'll drop you through the bomb bay without benefit of bombsight...
...never saw a better concentration of bursts. We could still see the hot glow 120 miles from the target on the way home...
...five-week course, seven days a week, gunner students learn shooting from the first rudiments of sighting, which they learn to do with both eyes open, using the sighting*, or master, eye to put the gun on the target...
Sport for Deflection. While the student learns his guns in the classroom, he also learns to shoot with real weapons from his first week, usually becomes so enamored of his subject that he never wants to go to town, always calls himself "gunner." Shooting begins against fixed targets with .22-caliber rifles. But this is just to check fundamentals. For the rest of the course, Gunner Doe fires at targets on the wing. In an aircraft, almost all his shooting will be at fleeting targets, and the emphasis in training must be on "deflection" shooting, i.e., leading a target...